Local Rotary Collects 500 Coats for Vets

The club partnered with the Woodridge Veterans of Foreign Wars and several local businesses and organizations to collect coats, hats, scarves, and gloves for the Chicago Veterans Stand Down Day in November.

Rotary Club Collects 500 Coats for Vets

The club partnered with the Woodridge Veterans of Foreign Wars and several local businesses and organizations to collect coats, hats, scarves, and gloves for the Chicago Veterans Stand Down Day in November.

Nearly 500 coats were recently collected by the Woodridge Rotary Club in its first effort to provide essential winter items to homeless veterans.   The club partnered with the Woodridge Veterans of Foreign Wars and several local businesses and organizations to collect coats, hats, scarves, and gloves for the Chicago Veterans Stand Down Day in November. Everyone involved would like to thank the generosity of those locally who donated coats, knitted scarves, and who collected and distributed the coats and other items during the month and on the Stand Down Day itself.   Rotary is a humanitarian service organization which operates on the motto of Service Above Self. Information on other projects of the Woodridge Rotary Club may be found at www…

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This Weekend: Wine Tasting Fundraiser for Rotary Club

Participants can taste a variety of moderately-priced wines while munching on light snacks. Part of every sale will go to help raise funds for the Woodridge Rotary Club.It's at 5 p.m. Saturday.

GroveFest Opens Tonight

Rotary Club of Downers Grove says the three-day festival will be bigger and better this year.

With the inaugural event from last year under their belts and the support and enthusiasm of the community behind them, the Rotary Club of Downers Grove is ready to present a summer festival that is bigger and better. Rotary GroveFest will be held in downtown Downers Grove on tonight through Sunday. “We are sure that this year, everybody is going to enjoy the event,” said Keith Hoffman, a Rotarian and a coordinator of the event. The Rotary Club took the lead on the event after the Village of Downers Grove determined that it could no longer afford to sponsor the annual Heritage Fest. “Our board of directors had a meeting, and we looked at this as an opportunity to do two things. One: to bring back the tradition to Downers Grove; and secondly…

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