Great coverage in Mlive on the Send Hunger Packing event coming up on October 28. https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2023/10/rotary-clubs-of-ann-arbor-plan-to-pack-30k-meals-to-help-fight-food-insecurity.html Please volunteer or donate.  Here are the details: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/MTg4MzEx  

Rotarians have had two successive Saturdays to make a difference in the community, Adopt a Highway on 9/30/23 and Plant Trees on 10/7/23. 19 trees were planted in the Bryant neighborhood to support Ann Arbor Office of Sustainability and Innovations​‘ goal to plant 10,000 new trees on private property by 2030. Urban trees provide many […]

On September 30 a group of 12 Rotarians gathered on a very foggy morning to collect trash along the I-94 freeway as part of the Michigan Adopt-A-Highway fall cleanup. The fog lifted into a beautiful morning the Road Waste Warriors went to work collecting 37 bags of trash between State St. and Platt Road. Included […]

President Mark Foster rang the bell to open this meeting that welcomes four new members. Tom Strode tuned us up with The Star Spangled Banner. Kinnari Shah introduced us to The Guest House, a very thoughtful poem by the Indian poet Rumi. In his poem Rumi teaches us to embrace, rather than fight, whatever shows […]

One of the signature undertakings of the Rotaract Committee each year is the mentor-mentee program, which pairs Rotaractors with Rotarians who have background or expertise in areas relevant to the Rotaractor’s career or educational aspirations. The 2023-2024 coordinator for the program is Mary Steffek Blaske. If you are interested in being a mentor, let her […]

Anticipating the today’s speaker, the full room of Rotarians was in happy and active voice visiting before the meeting.  A new (for us) hybrid meeting platform – streaming – was being tested, but sadly, there was no connectivity. We will need to wait another week for streaming to be ready for a test run. President […]

The Program Committee has been hard at work filling the dates between now and the end of the calendar year. Combining that listing with dates for known Club and District events, you can click here for a printout. Results from our club’s most recent Member Survey indicated that at least 3/4 of the respondents said […]

Tree planting makes a comeback.   The Environmental Action Group is looking for volunteers to plant trees on Saturday, October 7th from 9 am to 12 pm in the Bryant neighborhood.  Sign up is easy, please use the link below to sign up. https://forms.office.com/g/TRPGxXkvTb

Do you need help with gardening, cleaning out the garage, moving furniture, or many other chores around the house?  Our undergraduate Rotarians are ready to assist you through their Rent-A-Rotaractor program. For more information, or to schedule a work crew, contact Dennis Powers. Best of all, the money you spend to get your job done, […]

President Mark Foster rang the opening bell and Tom Strode accompanied us in The Star Spangled Banner. Kathy Waugh joined on Zoom and inspired us with thoughtful and encouraging remarks about artificial intelligence, noting that our task is to make AI a tool not to replace us but to augment us. In conclusion, she noted […]