Monthly Archives: April 2020

Dr. Vin Gupta, MD, MPA, MSc, who has lately become the face of NBC News as their spokesperson for COVID 19 related issues, is a Rotary Scholar supported by our Rotary District 6380 and specifically supported by RCAA. Dr. Gupta (no relation of Dr. Sanjay Gupta, MD who is the Chief Medical Correspondent of CNN […]

Until the latter 1950s, polio was one of the most feared diseases in the world, affecting over 35,000 persons per year in the U.S. alone. Families lived in fear while travel and commerce were sometimes affected. Field trials of the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk began on April 26, 1954, eventually involving 1.8 million […]

The Disaster Response Committee is supplying free masks to any Rotarian or Rotary family member who requests one.* Contact Eric Lipson: ericlipson@gmail.com to order masks or have your masks delivered free of charge. The committee is obtaining both hand-made and commercial masks. Handmade masks are priceless. Please advise Eric if you can contribute hand-made masks to […]

Fellow Rotarians, Now is the time to support our community during these most challenging times. The Disaster Response Committee will solicit donations for the RCAA Pandemic Response Fund from May 1- May 31. These funds will be awarded through a grant process focused on TWO areas of need: Healthcare and Frontline worker support (PPE for […]

Last fall, the Rotaractors raised more than $3000 from Rent-A-Rotaractor to support their spring trip to Honduras and their other service projects. Fall cleanup projects are now a distant memory. Spring cleanup projects were upended by Covid-19, but “shelter in place” is beginning to be relaxed. Are there now landscaping projects on your horizon? Do you […]

President Rosemarie Rowney called our meeting to order at 12:39pm with an invitation to listen to Tom Strode play our Patriotic Song, the Star Spangled Banner. Lauren Heinonen gave us a quick introduction to Zoom etiquette and brought us up to speed on using it like pros! An inspirational quote was offered by Phil Klintworth, […]

Though our Rotary Fights Child Hunger campaign was originally to end on April 6th, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, need in our community remains high. We have now EXTENDED this campaign so that you can continue to make contributions to this drive that we have in partnership with Food Gatherers. Both you and our club […]

(From Rotary International) World Immunization Week, 24-30 April, is here. Join with Rotary as we raise awareness of the importance of vaccinations and our work to #EndPolio. Each year, Rotary and our partners vaccinate more than 400 million children against polio. When children receive the polio vaccine, their pinkie fingers are marked with purple ink […]

The MASKerAID seamstresses, comprised of many of our own club’s members and adjunct members and run by Past President Greg Stejskal’s wife Pat, have been sewing up a storm creating face masks for the community. They provided 50 homemade masks to the Corner Health Center (CHC) in Ypsilanti. Staff have been using these daily, and taking […]

On April 21, John White took advantage of his My Rotary account to attend a webinar on the features and use of the RI Learning Center.* He was among over 5000 attendees. The instructor presented a wide range of resources available at the click of a mouse button.  There are about two dozen modules covering: […]