As announced at the past two lunch meetings, an exchange student being hosted by the Ann Arbor North Rotary Club is in need of a host family starting March 1, due unexpected health pressures of the out-of-state parents of the current host. The student, Adela Buranova, is on the Huron High School Ladies Basketball team […]
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The Junior Rotarians from Gabriel Richard High School finally got their chance to join us on Wednesday, January 10. From L to R, they are: Claire McNally, who is planning to study biology and become a research biologist. Andrew Putlock, who has been accepted into both the U.S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Naval […]
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Crain’s Detroit Business reports that Gov. Rick Snyder has appointed Ann Arbor Rotarian Omari Rush to chair the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. The 15-member council, appointed by the governor and housed within the Michigan Economic Development Corp., is charged with granting the state arts funding each year to arts and cultural groups […]
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Revered Rotarian John Barfield passed away on January 3, just over a month short of his 91st birthday. Although he was a member of the Ypsilanti club, he was well known around our town and recently told his inspiring life story to us at our meeting at Glacier Hills on November 17. Viewing and services […]
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The Board of Director’s Meeting was held Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at the United Way Building. The Club’s membership on November 30 was 313 Active Members plus six Honorary members and seven Inactive Emeriti. The Club’s average attendance in November was 41% for five meetings. The average attendance for the luncheons was 107 members plus […]
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The new tax act that was signed into law on December 22, 2017 has made some profound changes to the tax code and will affect everyone in some way. Because the Standard Deduction is almost doubled for 2018, many people who itemize in 2017 might find that there will be no advantage in itemizing in […]
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Fellow Rotarians, your Survey Committee is excited to announce a new survey format that is launching in January. Rather than one, more lengthy, annual survey in late spring, we are going to have a series of two question surveys (“Flash!” Surveys) through the months of January through March. We will continue to use Survey Monkey […]
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Christie Bacon grew up in Ann Arbor (Go Blue! Go Rats!), then moved to Chicago to begin her professional career, where she earned an MS in Public Service Management from DePaul University. She lived in Chicago for ten years, working for several organizations, including Business Partners: The Chamber for Uptown and the American Bar Association. […]
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by Peter Brown Ken Wilson kind of fell into his business by doing something he enjoyed and was good at. Ken was working at a cell-phone company in his hometown of Youngstown when he started doing drawings for employees’ birthday cards. Then his boss asked him to put together a map of the company’s coverage […]
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By Ashish Sarkar Recently, you heard Endowment Chair, Norm Herbert, tell us how your generous donations to our club’s endowment help us make a difference in lives of people here locally and around the world. Now, I’d like to explain how our club takes some of those funds and leverages them with the help of […]
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