Rotary Meeting Highlights July 17, 2024
The Rotary Club of Westlake Bay Village held its weekly Wednesday meeting on July 17, 2024. The meeting was a hybrid with 24
participants meeting via zoom and in person. President-elect Kubacki called the meeting to order at 7:30 a.m., began with a reflection followed by the Pledge of Allegiance and the Rotary Four-Way Test.
Amy welcomed everyone to the meeting and introduced our speaker, Austin Stull.
Club news:
The next Art Fest committee displayed a banner showing our featured artist, Will Wilson.
Terri reported that we will all be receiving an email with links to the youth protection training that we all must take. Please watch your email.
A reminder: Dues invoices have been sent. Checks should be made out to the club, not Corley, and given to Jim or Pat.
As this it the beginning of the new Rotary year, Andrew reminded everyone of our goal to once again have every member participate by making a donation to the Rotary Foundation sometime during this year. Terri reported that our district won the award for having the most Paul Harris Society members in the zone.
District Governor Dale Smith will be speaking to our club on August 21st. Please put it on your calendar and make every effort to attend this meeting. It is important we make a good showing for the DG.
Our speaker today was Austin Stull, Walk Manager for the Alzheimer's Association. The walks take place nationally and are their largest source of funds. There are 600 walks nationwide with over 55,000 teams, and 350,000 walkers participating. The Lorain County 2023 walk had 55 teams and 350 walkers, and raised $93,317. The goal for the 2024 wak, which will be held on September 7th, is 69 teams, and $105,000 in revenue.
Our own Jeff Appel is the Chairman of the 2024 walk. Congratulations to Jeff for his continued involvement in the Alzheimer’s Association.
The vision of the Alzheimer’s Association is a world without Alzheimer’s and other dementia illnesses.
Rotary is heavily involved with the Alzheimer’s Society through the Alzheimer’s/dementia Rotary Action Group. For more information, visit adrag.org.
We had time for our happy thoughts (it was noted that Steve had nothing to say) and the meeting adjourned at 8:24