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Executive Director Lori Walters shut down a lively conversation to make a couple of announcements.  Please pay your Community Service Assessment if you have not done it.  Here is the link:  a2rotary.org/donate.  And she gave a few reminders about Zoom etiquette. Tom Strode started us off with God Bless America. Christina Ferris lit a candle […]

President Joanne Pierson rang the bell to open the meeting. Tom Strode played America the Beautiful. Dawn Johnson provided the Inspiration, noting that December is Disease Prevention and Treatment Month. She referenced Rotarians’ resilience and perseverance in its effort to build goodwill and improve the quality of life for others. Don Duquette provided a video featuring […]

Weary election watchers were happy to change the subject on Wednesday and the chatter was spirited. Before the bell Lori Walters praised our Zoom etiquette during last week’s Jennifer Jones presentation and vowed not to present the etiquette lesson again if we continued to be well behaved. President Joanne rang the bell at 12:25 and […]

After companionable chatter and Lori Walters’ Zoom etiquette reminders, Tom Strode started the meeting with The Star Spangled Banner. Dave Keosaian read the hymn inspired by James Russell Lowell’s 1845 poem, Once to Every Man and Nation. The poem reflected the national debate over slavery and the impending war with Mexico after the annexation of […]

Not to put too fine a point on it, you can see in the picture John White is holding one of the weapons of trash destruction he is amassing for the Club’s assault of debris on I-94 scheduled for the morning of Saturday, September 26. Almost enough Rotarian waste warriors have volunteered so that only […]

Rotary has funded this Children’s Literacy Network project through both a CAC and a District Grant and CLN needs volunteers in 1.5 hour shifts throughout the school year — up to 40 in total. Below is the formal description of BookPals, but it is an easy commitment, working with 2nd and 3rd graders in small […]

Quote: “There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up” John Holmes, author. The social portion of the meeting welcomed Kinnari Shah, who is nominated to become a member on September 24. She had already attended a STRIVE meeting so is off to a great Rotary Career. Past President […]

Myth: Rotary is a secret private luncheon club for old white men Reality (word by word): Secret – Rotary is a service organization of 1.2 million persons in 35,000 clubs around the world. It is not clandestine but Rotarians are generally humble in going about the good work they perform in their community and internationally. […]

The August 26 meeting was preceded by lots of interesting and diverse chatter. Tom Strode started by announcing that just yesterday he became a septuagenarian. Some one of us asked if he could spell it, and advised he start learning to spell octogenarian. We then noted the loneliness of campus, the success of telemedicine, the […]

The meeting bell rang promptly for the July 29, 2020 Zoom meeting. Tom Strode immediately took it away with America the Beautiful. Bob Buchannan’s Inspiration continued the theme, sharing beautiful pictures of Lake Michigan at all times of day, musing on how its beauty and timelessness inspires him. Don Duquette’s video of a Hamilton parody […]