Yearly Archives: 2020

Children’s Literacy Network BookPALS is a club funded project. They need volunteers for 1.5 hour shifts throughout the school year — up to 40 in total. Below is the formal description of BookPAL, but it is an easy commitment, working with 2nd and 3rd graders in small reading groups on Zoom. They get free books […]

As you know, the unfortunate cancellation of our biggest fundraiser, the Golf and Tennis Outing, served a significant blow to our Foundation’s ability to offer aid to our community.  The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor’s Golf and Tennis Committee did not let COVID-19 stand in its way!  The GTO Committee got creative and organized an […]

…the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor, that’s who! Check out our latest ad in the October edition of the Ann Arbor Observer. Read more on our scholarship programs here.  

The October 7 meeting opened on Zoom with half an hour of social time to meet and chat. Lori Walters provided “Zoom Etiquette” at 12:28. Lauren Heinonen was attendance taker and Lori reminded members to sign in via Chat function in Zoom.  Lori also requested members to have members faces “lit” in Zoom to be […]

During the Adopt-a-Highway cleanup day on Saturday, September 26th, our Rotarians found some very interesting items along the highway, including a car spring and a gold lame skirt. Past President Greg Stejskal’s group found one of the strangest items: a working electronic tablet. The tablet had a 2|24 Church sticker on the back, was scuffed […]

Who Is It? This Rotarian peddled the Saturday Evening Post in his neighborhood.  He recruited the customers, delivered the magazine, and collected monthly for the subscriptions.  His sales pitch was only slightly more sophisticated than “Wanna Buy the Saturday Evening Post?”  He hated selling, but collecting for the subscriptions was even more unpleasant and sometimes […]

Fun, colorful and educational too!  Six environmental education signs are now designed, fabricated and ready to install at the Universal Access Playground in Gallup Park. This project represents our final contribution to the UAP to celebrate our Centennial.  Sumedh Bahl, Rotary Project Manager, met with representatives of Flutter and Wow and the City of Ann […]

The Rotary Road Waste Warriors attacked the I-94 corridor between State St. and Platt Rd. during the Club’s inaugural participation in the State of Michigan Adopt-A-Highway Program. Twenty one enemies of roadway trash swept the area clean of fifty six bags of trash, car parts, pieces of tires, cell phones, clothing, and one computer tablet […]

The September 30 meeting opened on Zoom with half an hour of social time to meet and chat. 49 members took part in the lively discussions before the business meeting began. Lori Walters provided “Zoom Etiquette” at 12:27. She also urged Rotary members to invite friends to attend our meetings. At 12:30, President Joanne Pierson […]

See below the speech that member Arthur Williams gave to our club during our meeting on September 30th, 2020. This was made on behalf of the Rotary Anti-Racism Committee (ARC). Thank you President Joanne and My Fellow Rotarians. It is my pleasure to address our club this afternoon on it’s (104th anniversary).  I was asked […]