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Check Your Calendars!

In addition to making sure you join us this Friday at Maggiano's for our last Friday meeting in November, be sure your calendar includes:

• November 15 - Atlanta Metro Rotary's Pickleball for Polio Tournament
• November 20 - Opportunity to help distribute Thanksgiving Harvest Baskets at Kingsley Elementary
• November 20 - Whiskey Raffle, Thirsty Thursday at Politan Row (buy your raffle tickets now)
• December 5 - Holiday Luncheon, Dunwoody Country Club ... including our annual collection for Toys for Tots
• January 30-February 1 - GRSP Leadership Weekend ... your opportunity to help us host the world

More information follows in this bulletin!

This Week's Speaker
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas W. Ariail, Dunwoody VFW

Join us this Friday at Maggiano's to greet Lieutenant Colonel Thomas W. Ariail and his dog Normandy, a 140-pound Great Pyrenees therapy dog who Tom now chauffeurs as Normandy spreads cheer throughout the community. Tom and Normandy will help us to commemorate Veteran's Day. 

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Ariail served in the United States Army for over 23 years in worldwide assignments in various combat zones. Son of a career Army officer, Tom was born in Orleans, France and grew up on various military bases around the world. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1984 and was commissioned as an Armor officer, serving at Fort Knox, Kentucky. [read more]

Whiskey Raffle Update
Only One Week Before the Whiskey Raffle!

We’ve had Willett bourbon. We’ve had Glenmorangie scotch. We’ve had High West whiskey. Now, our very last public whiskey tasting event is this THURSDAY at Louisiana Bistreaux at 6:00pm.

Thursday, November 13, 6:00pm at Louisiana Bistreaux – WHISKEY TASTING ($49)

This is a premium event, featuring 5 pours of Whistle Pig Rye and Bourbon whiskeys paired with Bixtraeaux food. This is a charged event ($49) but we’ll be able to advertise for the raffle and get good publicity for the club.

Thirsty Thursday, November 20, 5:30pm at Politan Row, THE RAFFLE ITSELF ... We’ll draw live, at the Politan Row bar for holiday edition of Thirsty Thursday. 

We Need Your Help!

We have 12 separate prizes of excellent whiskey making it the best odds of winning for the best prizes the club has ever offered. Make sure everyone you know knows!  See prizes and buy tickets at www.whiskey-raffle.com

Please remember to promote the event in-person and on your social media feeds. Remember: There's a 100% chance that the money we raise goes to support our charitable work in the community!

Any questions: Dave Burr and Neal MacDonald are at your service. Thanks for all your support!

Service Opportunity
Helpers Needed for Kingsley Thanksgiving Baskets

It's time for Dunwoody Rotarians to help with our annual Thanksgiving basket project for Kingsley Elementary School - where 90 families will benefit from Thanksgiving dinner and more food they can use during the following weeks. 

This coming week, we can specifically use help on:

• Monday, November 17 for the Turkey Marathon at Publix on Chamblee Dunwoody - we need 8 to 10 people to meet there at 9:30 AM.  The check out process will fun as it has been in the past and will be over by 10:30AM.
• Thursday, November 20 with basket distribution. We'd like to have at least two volunteers for each of the three distribution windows: 9 AM to 12 Noon ... 12 Noon to 3 PM ... and 3 PM to 5 PM. Baskets will be distributed at Kingsley, 2051 Brendon Dr, Dunwoody, GA 30338.

Please contact Charlie Augello - italian@e48stmarket.com or by text 770-235-9982 if you can help on either or both days.

End Polio Now
Still Time to Join Atlanta Metro's Pickleball for Polio Tournament This Saturday

The Rotary Club of Atlanta Metro invites you and your club members to join us for our inaugural Pickleball for Polio tournament in support of Rotary International’s End Polio Now campaign. Read the rest of the story for details; then sign up if you are interested at https://luma.com/bslokxvn [read more]

Opportunity to Serve
This is the Time to Support Toys for Tots!

As you know, we are continuing our tradition of supporting the Marines and their Toys for Tots Drive this holiday season. We will have a table at the Holiday Luncheon on December 5 to collect your donations. This year - with rising costs for everything - helps families make the holidays special is more challenging - and more important! 

You can help with toys, bikes, games, craft kits, dolls and more. Do your buying now and bring your unwrapped contributions to the Holiday Luncheon. If you have any questions, contact Jim Glass. 

Please help us support this great work!

Join Us for the Holiday Luncheon on Friday, 12/5

You and a guest are invited to join in a Dunwoody tradition ... the 41st Annual Holiday Luncheon on Friday, December 13 at the Dunwoody Country Club. Festivities start between 11:00 and 11:30 am. As always, we welcome your spouse or special guest.

RSVP now to Alison Norris (email: CallingDunwoodyHome@gmail.com) so we can reserve a spot for you.

We plan for the Dresden Elementary School chorus to provide some beautiful entertainment. And we hope to build a fine display of toys destined for donation to Toys for Tots! Please consider bringing a new, unwrapped toy to help spread some holiday joy this year to children and families in our community.

Service Opportunity
Annual Coats for Kids Drive

You may have read a story in the November District Newsletter about the Rotary Satellite Club of Atlanta Southern Crescent/Clifton-Emory's 2nd Annual Coats for Kids Project, led by Rotarian Angeli Abrol Dugall and her six-year old daughter Avya. Donations will go to Malachi's Storehouse, St. Patrick's Episcopal Church, an organization we have supported in the past that's just down the hall from Anchor Place Respite Care.

Avya actually made a presentation to her first-grade class about this project; Angeli says she is trying to instill the Rotary spirit in her child and other kids early!

If you would like to participate, you may drop items off at Malachi's - please let them know it's part of the Coats for Kids Project. If you would like to donate, please notate that this is part of the Rotary (RCCE) Coats for Kids Project. The project runs through November 30, 2025, but donations are always welcome. Most requested items are clothing, canned goods, toiletries and diapers. More information can be found here:  https://malachis.org/#donate