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OUR PROGRAM THIS WEEK: 5/17/2012

Jim Elliott, Founder and President

Diveheart & Diveheart Military Wounded

DIVEHEART MISSION STATEMENT:

To build confidence and independence in children, adults, and veterans with disabilities using SCUBA diving as a tool.

DIVEHEART INFORMATION:

The Diveheart Foundation was founded in Early 2001 and is a non-profit tax exempt 501 (C) (3) national organization chartered in the state of Illinois. The purpose of Diveheart is to provide and support educational SCUBA diving and snorkeling experience programs that are open to any child, adult, or veteran with a disability with the hope of providing both physical and psychological therapeutic value to that person.

It is the "CAN DO" spirit that Diveheart hopes to instill in all its participants by giving them the confidence and independence that allows them to face their own life challenges and overcome barriers that before might have seemed insurmountable.
Through SCUBA diving, the Diveheart Foundation supports and facilitates programs that teach children and adults with disabilities to fly. Thanks to the wonder of the water column, the oceans and lakes of the world become the forgiving weightless environment of outer space, giving perfect buoyancy to a child or adult who would otherwise struggle on land.

UPCOMING EVENT: SENIOR FAIR

Village of Park Forest, IL

Rich Township Senior Center

Also come meet us at the Rich Township Senior Center’s Annual Senior Fair

When: Friday, May 11^th, 2012

Where: Rich Township Senior Center-297 Liberty Drive

Time: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Many local health and senior service vendors will be there to share their services with all seniors. Refreshments will be served, raffles and door prizes. Transportation services are also available. Call (708) 748-5454.

IN MEMORIAM

Our Beloved Friend & Rotarian Etel Billig Passes at 79

December 16, 1932 - March 28, 2012

University Park Golf Club & Conference Center- University Park, IL

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Message From Our President
Mr. Dan Graham

Our Park Forest Rotary Club is one of 33,334 clubs worldwide dedicated to community service, world peace, and international understanding. We do this through local school involvement, financial contributions to local and international worthwhile charities, and community projects such as the Dictionary project giving dictionaries to 3rd graders, our Early Act programs and , as well as providing entertainment for the local community and promoting fellowship opportunities through our fundraising activities like our Pointsetta Plant Sale, The "Do It Yourself Messiah", Live/ Silent Auction and our Golden Opportunities Coupon Book sales Today, our club's membership includes over 20 men and women from all walks of life. In the last three years alone, the Park Forest Rotary Club has contributed more than $40,000 in gifts and contributions. We meet every Thursday from 12:15 until 1:30 at the University Park Golf Club & Conference Center in University Park, IL.

The Rotary Club of Park Forest was chartered in 1953 with Rotary International . Our club is diverse in occupation, gender, and race. Following the weekly meal, we participate in a 30 minute program consisting of a visiting speaker or presentation.

The Rotary was founded in 1905 in Chicago as an outlet for business and professional leaders who wanted to volunteer and give back to their community. Today, Rotary International includes more than 33,334 clubs in more than 160 countries worldwide. Rotarians meet weekly for fellowship and discussion of local, regional, national and global topics.

The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

First: The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;

Second: High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;

Third: The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;

Fourth: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

We end each meeting by reciting our four way test in unison. Adopted by Rotary in 1943, The 4-Way Test has been translated into more than a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways. It asks the following four questions:

"Of the things we think, say or do:

Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?"

Where and when can you visit?
We meet each Thursday for lunch at the University Park Golf Club and Conference Center located at:
23520 Crawford Ave.
University Park, IL 60466
www.universitygolfclub.com

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