Rotary and Toastmasters Strategic Alliance-  By Collyer Smith As many of you are well aware, Rotary International, and Toastmasters International, have developed a strategic alliance that was announced this past winter. Here are some quotes highlighting this alliance:  “Collaborating with Toastmasters will provide our members with even more opportunities to develop and improve their leadership […]

  (From the Rotary International Membership Minute) Registration is free and open to all Rotarians Rotary’s first online convention will be a great way to connect with members around the world. Now More Than Ever, Rotary Connects the World: The 2020 Rotary Virtual Convention is happening 20-26 June. You’ll find breakout sessions on new ways […]

(From Rotary Brand News for June 2020) Do you want to show your Rotary pride in virtual meetings and conferences? Find and download six new digital Rotary and Rotaract-branded backgrounds from the Materials section of the Brand Center. Also available for Rotarians is a new PowerPoint template you can download, giving you an updated tool […]

On Friday, June 5, John White zoomed in on the weekly meeting of the Rotary Club of Lansing. Their club is now just under 200 members and the peak of attendees was 79. On the call was their Executive Director Cathy Andrews and Donna Gardner. Donna was a member of our club in 2001-2002 while […]

Chatter before the June 3 meeting was spirited and diverse. Your reporter logged in in time to hear President Rosemarie announce that Fisher House opened to its first families on June 1.  WDIV in Detroit aired a clip about the house, which you can see here: www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/06/02/ann-arbor-fisher-house-opens-to-support-veterans-families/. Joe Fitzsimmons updated us on the situation in […]

The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor is currently using Zoom for its weekly meetings.  The Program Committee is accepting nominations for speakers, but only for presentations via Zoom.  The calendar of speakers is scheduled into July 2020 and we are working on programming for some dates in July and August.  Appropriate nominations are welcome.  Please […]

The Fisher House Project that Rotary started in 2015 is now complete in Ann Arbor (Detroit to come). Channel 4 featured the new house on the news last night with pictures from the interior. It is beautiful!  Please follow the following link to view the clip: https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/06/02/ann-arbor-fisher-house-opens-to-support-veterans-families/    

Thanks to the District 6380 100K Mask Challenge, the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor has been able to provide 300 surgical masks to the VA Hospital in Ann Arbor.  The masks will be provided to homeless veterans, veterans that have VA medical appointments, and VA essential volunteers like chaplains and others, and will provide them […]

To help curb the spread of COVID-19, two months ago the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) made the difficult decision to temporarily pause house-to-house immunization campaigns. In line with the latest WHO guidance on implementing mass vaccination campaigns, the GPEI is now recommending that countries with active polio transmission begin preparing to resume immunization activities as soon as conditions […]

The Fisher House at the Ann Arbor Veterans Hospital is opening to veterans and their families on June 1.  This unbelievable achievement was made possible by a number of dedicated donors and volunteers – many who were members of the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor.  Congratulations to Fisher House Michigan!  It is wonderful to have […]