This week with the Rotary Club of Palatine

This week in Rotary was led by our own Hank from the bank in the tank from Rockin the the Block Fest.  He lead our trivia test with marshmallows or Martians.  As always most people couldn't answer the questions and donated their dollar to the club. Our speaker was George Couris, EVP with Pepper Group, a marketing technology company specializing in B2B social media George cited the power of technology to drive leads and generate sales. Pepper Group shows how to navigate the marketplace through such media as Facebook (fair) LinkedIn (good), Twitter, Pinterest, and others. Also, George discussed the growing popularity of Virtual Trade Shows, webinars , etc in a the area of Elements of Success. He pointed out the importance of Positioning and Message---Educate, Inform, Move How to developprocess, recreate format, distribute it, and finally Track & Follow up. He emphasized a strong web presence (attract-communicate-affirm, and capture. Besides checking out Pepper's website (Pepper Group), you can google "Chicago Marketing Firm" and there they will be. It was an interesting and informative presentation.

Our new Rotary Youth Exchanges student from Brazil will be arriving on August 20 and she will be staying with local families for a year.  We still need one more host family for the last part of the year, April though July. If you live in the Fremd School District and are interest in hosting our next exchange student, a young lady from Brazil, please e-mail Jaime Suszek at Jaime.suszek@genexservices.com.

Our next community event will be selling pop and water at Streefest.  We hope to see everyone come out to this great fest and support the village.

On September 14, 15 and 16 we will celebrate our 5th annual Oktoberfest. See http://www.palatinerotary.com/Oktoberfest.php for details. We are now gathering donations from local merchants to fill the raffle baskets. Last year, local merchants donated over $45,000.00 in merchandise and coupons for the baskets. And yes, the wheelbarrows of beer will be back and better than ever. If you are interested in donating please give me a call at 847-788-9022. We have also have started to sell raffle tickets for a chance to win one of 24 baskets we raffle at the event.

The Rotary Club of Palatine meets every Tuesday at the Red Apple Restaurant at 7:15 AM.  For more information go to http://www.palatinerotary.com.

 The main objective of Rotary is service — in the community, in theworkplace, and throughout the world. Rotarians develop community service projects that address many of today's most critical issues, such as children at risk, poverty and hunger, the environment, illiteracy, andviolence. They also support programs for youth, including leadership andeducational opportunities and international exchanges for students, teachers, and other professionals, and vocational and career development. The Rotary motto is Service Above Self. Our club motto is "Doing good Having fun maybe both.