Rotary Club of Waukegan

09/29/2026

Last Saturday was clean the bike path day and fine weather and lots of volunteers made the task go quickly and pleasantly. Big thank you to all the pickers! See ya in the spring!

09/20/2026

Since we've been enjoying our Rotary butterfly garden a lot lately, I thought this might be interesting to add.

09/15/2026

Yesterday President Shelby and the club welcomed District Governor Rick Reigner at our butterfly garden in Oakwood cemetery. Rick has lots of ideas to help us and our fellow district clubs grow and continue to make a big impact in our communities.

09/10/2026

Had our quarterly board meeting today and it was almost a full house! A dozen Rotarians logged in to participate.

09/10/2026

Doug was at the butterfly garden this morning and found a monarch butterfly caterpillar munching on some of the garden's delicious greens.

08/13/2026

Our club donated our local grant allotment to a project to help raise the infant mortality rate in Pasto Columbia. The grant, "Chilling for Life," was spearheaded by Jose Lopez of the Evanston Lighthouse Rotary club along with 27 other clubs from all over the US and some international clubs. The equipment needed was purchased and the first newborn was treated recently with the therapeutic hypothermia and neonatal monitoring machine. Thanks to the board and membership for their vision and compassion.
Richard Lee

07/30/2026

Today was volunteer day at Keeping Families Covered diaper warehouse. We had a small but mighty group of Rotarians helping out with whatever the ladies needed done! Check out this outstanding organization at :

www.keepingfamiliescovered.org

07/30/2026

Before jetting off to merry old England, Doug sent me these two photos of our butterfly garden. Besides the luscious foliage he saw four Monarch butterflies!

07/01/2026

Last evening the club fed over 40 hungry people of all ages at the First Methodist church in Waukegan. It was hot but the grils were hotter loaded with bratwurst, Italian sausages and hot dogs. A big thank you as always to our wonderful volunteers, Mary Jo, Diane, Bernie, and Andrew (did I forget anyone?).

06/29/2026