Tony Cimino	George Ellefsen	Cal George	Tom Geraghty
Scott Helton	Diane Junokas	Bill Schaub	Gary Sinagra
Don Weiss

Guests: Pete Call, Bob Nicholas, Jorge DeLeon, Erik Engle, Steve Jansen, Marc Valdez, Omar Medina, Angelo Sorce,Adam Andrzejewski, Carl Segvich

 

The meeting opened with “ America ”, the pledge, the 4-way test and prayer.

Cal George welcomed guests who made the following announcements:

• Bob Nicholas, Elk Grove Village Rotary, announced their upcoming 5 day festival during which their club will be sponsoring a nightly raffle. Tickets cost $5 and all prizes are valued over $100. The grand prize is $2500 and that drawing will include all tickets purchased. Raffle tickets can be purchased from Bob.
• Steve Jansen, Elmhurst Rotary, announced that the Elmhurst Thursday Noon Rotary is now meeting in the Wilder Mansion (former Elmhurst Library) and welcomes visitors at any time.
• Omar Medina, Addison Trail Rotary Scholarship winner, was introduced and shared some information about his experiences at ATHS and his involvement with CIMA and Interact Club. Jorge DeLeon read an essay written by Omar about the impact this involvement has had on his life.
• Scott Helton announced that Addison Trail High School was named on Newsweek's list of the top American high schools. This list represents the top 6% of high school in the nation.
• Gary Sinagra urged members to attend the MCCD Golf Outing banquet on Monday, June 15 at Alta Villa at 6:30pm.

Don Weiss introduced the day's speaker, Adam Andrzejewski. Andrzejewski is a Republican who became the first candidate for Governor of Illinois, when he declared his intention to run for office on March 1. Andrzejewski built a business, Home Pages (telephone directories), with his brother. After 10 years, he left the business to work in non-profits, forming an organization called “For the Good of Illinois” which worked with government agencies, encouraging them to post their agency's checkbooks online, making financial information readily available to citizens.

Andrzejewski decided to run for office in order to provide leadership and push back against bad policies. He feels that “We the people” must reform government.

His campaign will emphasize three big ideas:

• Political theme – “I believe it's your turn”
• Policy theme – “Every dime online in real time”

As a Republican he feels his primary responsibility is to defend the taxpayer. He believes that spending cuts are necessary(since revenue can not always continue grow)and that 100% financial transparency by government agencies can help the average person locate areas of financial excess in government budgets.

• Politics/Policy theme – “All of the new ideas require new people.”

Andrzejewski encourages citizens to become involved with his campaign and in the reform of bad politics. A volunteer sign-up/information sheet was circulated. For more information, see //www.adamforillinois.com.

The installation dinner for Bob Smith and the 09-10 Addison Rotary officers will be held at Solace on Friday, June 26 at 6:00pm (7pm dinner). The club will pay for members and will bill for spouses that attend. Please contact Cal George if you plan to attend. Dress will be casual.

Don Hendricks had polled club members via email for approval of a $500 donation to be made to the Kankakee Rotary in order to help support an Exchange student from Mexico. The donation was approved.

The meeting adjourned at 1:30pm