Yearly Archives: 2021

Getting Back to the Michigan Union for our Weekly Meetings   Please know that the leadership and tech experts of RCAA are working hard to get us back to in-person meetings and we plan to have a fully capable in-person and Zoom hybrid meeting format in action by early September.  In the meantime, we continue […]

Annual RCAA Survey Thank you to the 83 people who have already responded to our annual survey!  That puts us at a 34% response rate.  Last year our response rate was 41%, and response rates in years prior were 35% in 2019 and 20% in 2018.  Please help us achieve our goal of a 50%+ […]

Ann Arbor Marathon Returns This October July 21, 2021 Epic Races and Rotary Club partner to E-Race the Stigma Ann Arbor, MI (July 21, 2021) – The 10th running of the Probility Ann Arbor Marathon will be held on October 24, 2021, after receiving final approval from Ann Arbor’s City Council last night.  Typically held in […]

Help unemployed and under employed Veterans. Zingerman’s is donating ALL sales proceeds to Hire MI Vet from their sales July 30, 2021, 9:00 am –10:00 pm. Shop in-person at the Zingerman’s Mail Order Warehouse Shop at 710 Phoenix Drive in Ann Arbor on July 30th!  All proceeds from that day’s sales in the Warehouse Shop will […]

The July 21, 2021 meeting opened on Zoom with social time.  Lori Walters opened the meeting and reminded members to make sure that their name is shown accurately in Zoom so attendance can be recorded correctly and for guests to indicate which member has invited them.  Please sign in using the Chat function and respond […]

RCAA member and Potters Guild member Mary Avrakotos is part of a creation team including Joan Harris, Joe Szutz and Shirley White-Black. Together this team of artists created three sculpture towers called “Woodlands – Seen, Unseen, and Imagined”. The exhibit is currently open by appointment through a link on the Matthaei Botanical Gardens website. Starting […]

To all Tutors and Potential Tutors: As Jim Egerdahl is taking a much needed break competitive sailing in Lake Superior- I have offered to help out- I believe all of us understand the need for tutors this coming school year has never been greater- this pandemic has knocked our kids further behind. Helping our kids […]

We know, you really want to know what the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor’s Annual Survey says!  Despite our initial hiccup, we are off to a great start!  So far, 25% of RCAA members have responded to the survey.  The survey is thorough and your input is so important to help our Club continue to […]

As is our wont, we gathered on Zoom at 12 Noon for this week’s meeting. The social half hour featured an eclectic selection of topics, including: Shopping for shoes on line and the difficulty of finding the perfect pair of black pumps. Trips up North, including spending time on the Leelanau peninsula (Don Deatrick illustrated […]

As you are aware, because of Covid-19, we are unable to host our wildly popular Golf and Tennis Outing last year. Over the past eighteen years of our annual event, our club has raised over a half- million dollars for various local causes including scholarships for high school graduates, the local literacy and health initiative […]