| Posted by Kelly Wong
We had a good Rotary meeting at the Outback Steakhouse on March 21. Our speaker was Brian Clark who is a Troy Rotarian. He is the incoming president for the year 2014. He told us about his career playing football. He received a MPV Most valuable Player award during his career and a ring. He also told us about his father’s career as a football player. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Here is a re-cap on those who missed our Rotary meeting yesterday. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Below is a list of updates for our upcoming meetings and the activities that our Interact Club is working on: November 8: our speaker, Kathy Chiaravalli will be speaking about “Information on Oil Drilling/gas Fracking in Michigan”. November 15: Mr Goldman from the Holocaust Center of West Bloomfield will be speaking at the OutBack Steak House at 11:45 AM. There will be no meeting on the Nov., 22. November 18: We will celebrate Thanksgiving at Joan and Joel Bussells house on Nov., 18 (Sunday) at 5 PM. We will be preparing food for 6 Thanksgiving Baskets for the needy. November 29: Ron Bush will be our speaker. He is with Cloverleaf Consulting. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
We had Barbara Donahue; a retired RN from Public Health gave us an overview of the Public Health structures on Oct., 4. 2012. For upcoming speakers in October and November, we will have: Oct., 18, 2012, 11:45 AM at Outback restaurant of West Bloomfield. Kevin Gebhard of Merrill Lynch – He is going to give us a presentation on various topics regarding investment strategies and retirement. Topics include: 1) Investing Strategically in Today's market - Road to Recovery 2) Taking Control of your retirement 3) Planning for Healthcare Costs in retirement Nov., 15, 2012, 11:45 AM at Outback restaurant of West Bloomfield.
Stephen M. Goldman is the director of the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman family campus in Farmington Hills, Michigan. |
| Posted by Steve Ketcham
Recent News
If you've missed the past few meetings, you've missed some excellent speakers. Two weeks ago, we had Hieu Nguyen speak to us via Skype from Chicago. Hieu has been active in Interact and Rotaract for years. He entertained us with his journey in Rotary, including his recent membership in a Chicago area Rotary club. His story was very inspiring!
Last week, Berkley Rotarian Dr. Paul Benson visited our club and spoke about his recent trip to the XIX World AIDS Conference. Dr. Benson, an AIDS specialist, updated us on AIDS throughout the world and current treatments.
Grub Crawl
 I still haven't heard if we made money on Grub Crawl, but I will keep the club posted. Again, a big thank you to everyone who helped and attended this year's event. As you can see, the cupcakes at Jen's were excellent! I did get word that $1004 was raised for the O'Rourke Family from the raffle at the end of the night. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Sector Meeting - Steve gave us an update on his Sector meeting (a subset of District 6380) with other clubs a few weeks ago. The goal is to meet with other clubs and pursue possible joint projects in the future if possible. One of the possibilities is “Technology Training” to fellow club members to bring members abreast of technology trends.
Grub Crawl – Mark your calendar, this year’s Grub Crawl is on September 13, Thursday evening starting at 6 PM. The Grub Crawl committee is working on the list of restaurants and flyer design. Stay tuned for more information. Club Strategic Plan – Steve had sent out a draft 3 year strategic plan for the club which he included ideas presented at the Visioning meeting that our club went through couple years back, some Presidential Citation goals for the coming year, some ideas from speaking to club members, and some of his own thoughts. Please review the document and send your suggestions to him by June 30, 2012. Interact Club St Jude’s Children Hospital fund raising update – we had finalized all the proceeds after taking out all the necessary expenses, and we are proud to announce that the event had raised a total of $2,109.79! Kathlyn Putnam will be sending out the checks and letter to St. Jude’s Children Hospital in the next few days. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
We held our first After Hours gathering on Thursday (starts 5:15 PM on the 1st, 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month) at the Optimize Building with speaker Jonathan Warshay who is running for the WB Township Supervisor in August 2012. We are looking forward to see more members and friends joining us for this “After Hour” activity in the coming months.
We will continue to have our Networking & Lunch on the third Thursday of the month - the next one is on June 21 at Outback Steak House -Orchard Lake and Maple. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
New WB Meeting Schedule There will be NO MEETING on May 31, 2012 due to a number of people being on vacation. Starting June 2012, there will not be any morning meetings as our incoming President cannot meet in the morning. Below are the new meeting times: 1) We will continue to meet the third Thursday of each month at the Outback Steakhouse on Orchard Lake Rd. at 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM 2) All other meetings will be evening meeting from 5:15 PM until 6:30 PM(promptly ending) at the Optimize building on the corner of Farmington/Maple Road. From 5:15 PM - 5:45 PM is social time, 5:45 PM - 6:00 PM is for meeting and announcements, and 6:00 PM-6:30 PM is for Speaker. Our next meeting will be on June 7 evening with speaker Jonathan Warshary at the Optimize Building. We are seeking some excellent speakers for our meetings. If you have any suggestions, please contact Joan at (248) 661-2156. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
The lunch meeting at the Outback last Thursday went extemely well. Maria Harris Ketchum of DIA gave us a wonderful overview of the amazing things that are going on in Detroit and the Museum. In the future, Maria will give us a tour of the Library there.
The St. Jude's fundraising operated by our Interact Club on last Friday had a very good turn out. Over 200 people attended the event. We will publish the total receipts from the fundraising in the coming week. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Our last morning meeting included a very interesting presentation by Judy Garver. Our next meeting will be a lunch meeting at the Outback Steakhouse. Thursday, May 17 at 11:45 AM.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
We have a wonderful evening at Honey Tree on Thursday night with our speaker Ann Maybury from Rodan & Fields Dermatologists. She gave us a very interesting talk on how we could take care of our skin under the sun. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
We had a great business meeting today with Steve Ketcham, our president elect for 2012-2013. Steve gave us an update on his experience at PETS (President Elect Training Seminar) that he attended recently. He has some dynamic ideas for our Club for next year, and he has energized us once again. We are also proud of our West Bloomfield Interact Club that has been awarded the 2012 Community Service Award. The award ceremony will be on May 18 from 7:15 AM to 9:00 AM at the Michigan Week Breakfast. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
We had a wonderful lunch meeting on April 19 at the Outback. Our speaker, Jake Cohen, with Detroit Venture gave an inspiring talk about the outlook for young entrepreneurs and residents in downtown Detroit. For those of us who were born or had lived in Detroit, it was refreshing to hear some good news for a change. It was a really good day for all of us !
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
Due to our fundraiser Poker Week we did not have a meeting on April 12. A big THANK YOU to all of our members that participated in this fundraiser. It was an experience !!!! We shall discuss this at our business meeting on April 29.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
This week we are in the middle of our Poker Night Fundraiser. We will keep our fingers crossed that this is successful. If it is, we will participate in another one in May. For those of you who were unable to participate, you will have another opportunity. More information will be following. Thanks go to Scott for obtaining our gaming license and setting this one up for us.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
Our Thursday, April 5 evening meeting will be at the West. Bloomfield Main Library. Harry Stewart, a World War II veteran of the Tuskegee Airmen will talk to us of his experiences during the war. The Rotary Clubs of Novi, Southfield, Lakes, and Farmington have been invited to attend. Please R.S.V.P. to Joan at (248) 661-2156 so that we can plan the refreshments. PLEASE NOTE: the library does not allow any charges, donations, or 50/50 to take place there. Therefore there will not be any charge for this event. West Bloomfield Rotary members will be asked to donate $10 at a later date to cover the cost of the food. There will be absolutely no charge or donations accepted from any guests. Please try to come at 5:30 PM to help with the setting up. The time of the event is 6-7:00 p.m.
Future locations for the evening meeting will be discussed at the next business meeting.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
Mary Kay from the Commerce Costco gave a presentation on some of the history and goals of Costco at our Rotary meeting on March 22. We also celebrated Shelly Newmans birthday with a delicious red velvet Costco Cake.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
KIDS 4 KLOTHES - is officially going on at OLMS this week. Sanay, Angela and Zara will be collecting the clothes on Friday. They will be donated to the Grace Center for Hope.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
We have Ginger Barrons from Novi Rotary as our speaker on Thursday night. Ginger has been helping end Polio for twenty years now, she showed us what Polio is, and how Rotary has been helping to eradicate polio and at the same time help to promote peace in those areas.
India has been taken off the polio-endemic list following a year in which the country reported no new cases of the virus. The wild polio virus remains endemic in three countries: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria. With the year 2012 target to end polio in the world, Rotary is raising about $355 million to compliment the $255million donated by Bill Gates to meet the target that will be used to eradicate polio this year. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Strive students have been selected. Letters of congratulations will be sent out shortly, and Bob will be meeting and greeting our two new students soon. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Our lunch meeting was fabulous. We had again an overflowing attendance and a wonderful speaker - Kasturi Bagchi. The subject concerning the risks and advantages of starting and maintaining your own business was so very interesting and informative. This is Rotary at its best !
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
Our business meeting was very productive. We will be having a one day Garage Sale in August. More information to follow.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
Our first evening Rotary Meeting at "Seven" restaurant was a huge success. In addition to a wonderful turnout, we enjoyed some delicious food and drink and the company of members and spouses. It was unanimous that we try this again next month on March 1st. Mark your calandars for the same time, same place. .
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
New Meeting Time and Location for First Thursday of Each Month -
Starting Feburary 2 (Thursday), we will have an evening Rotary Meeting (6 - 7 PM) at the backroom of "7" (Seven) . This restaurant is located on the S.E. corner of Orchard Lake Road and Maple Road in West Bloomfield next door to Plum Market. Meeting time is from 6:00 p.m.until 7:00 p.m.we will have appetizers and soft drinks available for $10.00 per person. Cash Bar is available as is dinner for those who wish to stay and order from the menu. This is our first evening business/social meeting including a speaker. Members, prospective Rotary Members, friends, spouses, and family members are all welcome. We hope to make this evening available to members that cannot make our morning or noon meetings. Looking forward to seeing everyone. The second and forth Thursday of each month will be reserved for committee reports and business at the Ford Hospital Optimeyes Bld. The Third Thursday will remain scheduled at Outback Steakhouse at 11:45 a.m. until 1:00 PM. Looking forward to seeing all of you at "7" on Thursday. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
We had another fantastic lunch meeting today. Mamesh Mehta, P.H.D., a Rotary member of the Ann Arbor North Club gave a wonderful program about "Project Dignity: Sanitation for All". His committee has a Rotary District Simplified Grant to seed this project concerning building sanitary toilets in S.E. India. This project not only improves the health of the communities in this area, but also enables young girls to attend school. These private toilets each cost $140.00 to build and they are hoping to build 5,000 of them. Although our club does not currently have the funds to help this project, it is on our wish list. Anyone wishing to donate to this project should contact Scott. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Our speaker, Ginger Weichers, former owner of The Coffee Connection on Orchard Lake Road and currently the owner of Ginger's Cafe's Gourmet Shoppe on Grand River Avenue in Farmington spoke to us about a Non-profit Organization called Soul that she established 8 years ago to help those in need. Soul means Source of Universal Love. This organization has opened a re-sale shop in Farmington, but gives to the needy most of the time instead of them having to purchase needed items. Ginger won over our hearts and this is an organization that our Rotarty Club and Interract Club might want to adopt as an ongoing project. This will be discussed at a future meeting. In the meantime, you can drop off clothing, non-perishable food, etc. at the Coffee Connection Mon-Fri ( receive a tax deductable slip) and they are picked up daily or drop off at Ginger's Cafe at 32905 Grand River Ave. in Farmington. (248) 987-6551. This organization functions similarly to the Salvation Army except most of their activity centers around family to family, person to person giving and taking. You can contact Judy or Joan for more information.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
Happy New Year! Hope all of you had a wonderful holiday season with loved ones. With continued sunshine and pleasant temperatures this should be a terrific winter for all. Snow can still be found in parts of Michigan. One just has to look hard to find it for our die hard snowbunnies. In the mean time, we will enjoy the ease of driving around unhampered for a few days longer.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
Our meeting on December 8 was very productive. We had a wonderful turnout to hear our speaker, Sharon Emery, the author of "That is Life". Sharon, who was born and raised in SW Detroit and now, lives in West Bloomfield. She has just completed a sequel to her novel and it is in the process of being published. It was very enjoyable to hear about her book, the process of writing it, and the method of publishing it. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
We had an interesting speaker at the Rotary meeting on Dec., 01 - Dianna, from Cuba, gave us an exciting account of how she escaped from Cuba via Mexico. She is now living with Lorry McVey in Novi, while she is gathering her papers in order and then attempts to pass her exams to practice medicine in the U.S. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
The West Bloomfield Interact Club is going to host a Holiday Family Movie and Blanket Drive on December 10 (Saturday) from 5 - 7 PM. It will take place at the Orchard Lake Community Church at 5171 Commerce Road, Orchard Lake. The suggested donation is a new blanket or $5 per family. All proceeds will be donated to the homeless shelters in Detroit through I Am My Brother's Keeper Ministries. Your support to this event is highly appreciated! |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Our lunch meeting on Nov. 17 at the Outback Steakhouse had great attendance with members and spouses and our guest, Andy Meisner, the Oakland County Treasurer. All would agree that this talk was fabulous and so informative that many questions were asked about the duties of the Treasurer. His main topic was home foreclosures in the county and how we can help to avoid them.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
We had an awesome Rotary meeting on Thursday. Col. Fredrick Gellert, son of Judy Garver, spoke to us for over a half hour from Kabul, Afghanistan through Skype. Fred is part of the NATO forces training the police/fire departments there in an attempt to enable them to be part of their new government. As of today, there are 139,000 trained and the goal is to have 157,000 by 2012. The goal of our government is to have a balanced, capable, sustainable, and affordable government infrastructure in place before the U.S. withdraws its forces in 2014. The police force is the first line of defense not the army. The U.S. has built over 500 police stations there and has over 500 police advisors in the country. One of the greatest obstacles for the country today is the extremely low level of literacy. They are working on that issue, as well as developing a working legal system. Army lawyers are there to help with this issue. This was an extremely informative program. We had an amazing turnout, including 4 members of our Interact Club. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Judy Garver brought us a fabulous breakfast and we had a great presentation by Scott about his journey across India raising money for Polio Plus and other charitable organizations.Those who missed this meeting missed something special.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
Rotary Club lunch meeting on the 20th was a great success. Chief Michael Patton, our West Bloomfield police chief, answered some very important questions concerning the length and strength of our security system in our township. He also encouraged us to vote for the renewal and increase in the mileage that is coming up for a vote in November to maintain the current status of our fire department and our safety. It was a very positive meeting. We were pleased to have six guests at our lunch meeting. Guests are welcome at all our meetings.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
On October 13 we had a wonderful speaker, Dr. Robert Martin, assistant school superintendant of the West Bloomfield Schools. We appreciate the time that Dr. Martin afforded us to answer the many questions that we had concerning the schools and the educational level of West Bloomfield.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
Sunday, October 9, there was an open house at Firestation #5. We regret that we were unable to set up a table for Rotary due to the shortness of notice and the religious holidays that occupied the week. However, next year we will certainly participate. The main focus of the infomational day was to get out the vote for the renewal of the millage and new millage vote for out fire department. Without a yes vote, the township of West Bloomfield will lose 2 firestations. Jay Wiseman, our member and firechief, urges for everyone to get out and vote.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
We had Grub Crawl on Sept., 15, and we will have a report on that for the next meeting. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
We had a very productive business meeting today and a delicious breakfast brought by Kathlyn. Thanks Kathlyn.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
We had a great meeting with guests Trevor, Samantha Putnam and Nick from our Interact Club presenting a fundraiser project. There will be more information to follow as soon as their project is blessed by the principal of the WB High School. It was wonderful to feel their enthusiasm and it brightened up our meeting and our entire morning.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
Today's program was exceptional. Morton Plotnick spoke for an hour ( and he could have talked more) on fundraising in general and in particular the publicity for the Grub Crawl 2011 and what we can do to further help us in planning for a successful 2012. There were many questions and many great answers, and if we are really lucky, maybe he will come to speak to us again. It would be wonderful to have him as a Rotarian.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
We had a great turn out at our lunch meeting today at the Outback Steakhouse. Guests included Glenda Lask, Hal Parrish, Joel Bussell, and Joel Newman. We were all so happy to see Gee Bee again. Shelley has done a wonderful job of providing a delicious lunch for us. If you haven't been to one of our lunch meetings, the third Thursday of each month, you should plan to attend. Remember, that we will not have a lunch meeting on September 15 due to the Grub Crawl that evening.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
We had a very interesting and informative meeting with our new District Governor, Steve Youst. Rotary is alive and well and involved in thousands of interesting projects locally and worldwide. The theme of looking within starts with ourselves and our family and goes outward. It was a great thoughtful presentation and gave us a lot to think about. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
District Governor Visit - Please make every effort to attend the rotary meeting on Thursday morning August 11 at 8:00 a.m. . Steve Youst, our current District Governor, will make his once a year visit and presentation to our club. This is one of the most important meetings of the entire year. Please support our club and our district by attending.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
We had an extraordinary meeting today with guests Keith Tappan from the Novi Rotary Club, Janet Haas from the Livonia Rotary Club, a wonderful speaker, Fuzzy Manning, and Chukwudi Utomi, son of our member, Henry Utomi, and a great turnout of W. Bl. membership.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
Sorry that there was a glich in getting our newsletter to you the past few weeks. Kelly is back from China and we should be back on track. Welcome home, Kelly. We missed you.
So far our 8:00 a.m. meetings are going well and our lunch meeting on July 21 was a success. The lunch was great. Shelly, our hostess, did an outstanding job, and our speaker was wonderful. Jay Wiseman, the chief of the fire department was our guest, and he gave us a quick review of the activities and needs of our local fire dept. He also addressed the need for the renewal of the millage this fall to keep our W. Bloomfield fire department one of the finest in the country.
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| Posted by Steve Ketcham
Strive: Bob is still waiting for the results of the last semester grades for our two Strive students, who will be recognized at our President's Night Dinner on June 30. They have each received scholarship money for two semesters already. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
The Installation Dinner for our new District Governor , Steve Youst, which was held on June 11 in Milford was a wonderful success, with 12 past district Governors presented and families, friends, and Milford Rotarians. The new Theme for 2011-2012 is "REACH WITHIN TO EMBRACE HUMANITY"
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
Interact Club - Judy Garver will assist in opening a checking account for our Interact Club. They will be sending a check for Polio eradication this week. The Club will not be meeting over the summer. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
On May 26, we had Mike Nelson, a Milford Rotarian and an attorney spoke to us about Mediation and Arbitration as an alternative to legal matters going to court for trial. The meeting was attended by Shelley, Bob, Marian, Mike Nelson, Leonard, Laurie McVey our assistant gov., Joan, Lee, and Scott. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
RI Internation Convention - Judy Garver is attending the RI International Convention in New Orleans. She has been sending us updated messages through Facebook during the meeting. We are looking forward to hearing all about it at the next meeting. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong on May 16, 2011
RYLA - Our Ryla Kids all returned safe and sound on Sunday - a little tired, a little cold and a lot wet, but very happy with their experiences over the week-end. We are looking forward to our two students coming to a Rotary Meeting and telling us all about their time this week-end in Canada. Joel, Joan, and Lani Bussell Shelef were there to greet and meet them and wait for all to be picked up.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong on May 11, 2011
Michigan Week - There is an Honor Banquet to be held at the Pine Lake Country Club on May 20th at 7 am. Our Rotary Club will be receiving a Community Achievement Award. Angela and Zara (our Interact Club's student) will be receiving a special award for their community work. Ticket is $25 per person. Marian is helping with Registration. Scott Brills, Bob Lask, Alice Faust, Marian and the two girls will sit at the RotaryTable. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong on May 02, 2011
Interact Club - We received the Charter for the Interact Club. Marian had the certificates framed and presented to the Club President. They raised over $2,500.00 so far from their concert. Some discussoin ensued as to whether half of the money should go to the Red Cross and half should go to the Japanese Rotary Club to ensure that it gets distributed to the people. It is up to the Interact Club to make that decision, but Kathlyn will make a suggestion to them. They are also selling woven bracelets for $3 to raise money for the Cure Boxes to be sent to 3rd world countries.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong on Apr 25, 2011
Japan Relief Fund Raising - It was a successful event, there were over 200 people attending the concert on Apr., 15 at the Orchard Lake Middle School. They raised $2,290 from the raffles and donations that night. All the monies are being donated to the American Red Cross. The Interact Club will meet again on Apr., 26 at OLMS to work on a thank you letter to thank the businesses that had donated items for the raffle at the Benefit Concert. Editor from WestBloomfield.patch, Tim Rath had covered the concert that night. Please check out the story http://westbloomfield.patch.com/articles/student-organized-japan-benefit-concert-raises-hope-money
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| Posted by Kelly Wong on Apr 14, 2011
Interact Update - The Interact club had a rehearsal Tuesday for the Benefit Concert and they have everything under control. The Benefit Concert will be held at the Orchard Lake Middle School from 7pm to 9 pm on Friday (4/15). We would like to see all our Rotarians at this special presentation. The Japanese Club and the Interact Club have teamed together to provide a night of entertainment in hope of raising money to aid the people of Japan who suffered an earthquake and tsunami a month ago. Let's give them all the support we can. Thanks to all of you.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong on Apr 11, 2011
Japan Relief Benefit Concert - Concert to raise money for the people of Japan sponsored by the West Bloomfield Interact Club and the Japanese Club will be held at the West Bloomfield Middle School on Friday, April 15th from 7-9 pm. All monies will be turned over to the Red Cross.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong on Apr 04, 2011
Strive - Bob introduced our new Strive participants, Shakeel Thomas and Trenice Brown, who then introduced themselves and told us a little bit about their hopes and dreams. It was especially nice that their mothers accompanied them to the meeting.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong on Mar 28, 2011
How often do you have two inductions in one week of the rotary club? Our club
did it!
Rotary Induction - On 3/23, we have our District Governor, Janet McPeek inducted 3 new members (Angelynn (Lynn) Rafaill, Michele Economou Ureste, and Steve Kaplan) to our Rotary club at the Gino's Restaurant in Keego Harbor. We all had a good time with our fellow Rotarians. Please click to see the induction.
Interact Induction - On 3/27, we have our District Interact Chair, Lynn Morgan inducted 15 members to our newly charted Interact Club at the West Bloomfield Library. We all had a nice afternoon with the kids and parents who attended the meeting. Please click to see the Interact Induction group picture.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong on Mar 24, 2011
West Bloomfield Interact Club and West Bloomfield High School’s Japanese Club are teaming together to provide a night of entertainment in hope of raising money for the recent tsunami and earthquake in Japan. All proceeds will be donated to the Red Cross. The concert will take place on April 15 (Friday) from 7 - 9 PM at Orchard Lake Middle School of West Bloomfield. Please RSVP to: oangelang@gmail.com or zara.pylvainen@gmail.com for this event. Attached please see the Japan Relief Benefit Concert for more information. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong on Mar 22, 2011
Interact Club - They had a meeting with the Japanese Club to do a fundraising for Japan. Their induction/charter will be on Sunday, March 27th from 2-4 p.m. at the Main West Bloomfield Library on Walnut Lake Rd. Pizza and Salad will be served and all expenses paid by our Rotary Club.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong on Mar 15, 2011
Interact Club - A group of students went down to the World Medical Relief facility last two Saturdays to help pack supplies. We are still looking for drivers to take groups down to the WMR which locates on Rosa Parks Blvd, Detroit. Please contact Kelly if you are able to spend a few hours on Saturdays(3/26 and 5/21) to drive them there. They were very excited to receive their new t-shirts, and have been wearing them for community works. We are planning an Interact Charter party soon to induct members and present them with the Interact Pins. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong on Mar 03, 2011
New Members Induction - Induction of new members will be on Wednesday Evening at 6:00 p.m. at Gino's Pizzeria & Restaurant, the address is: 1999 Cass Lake Rd · Keego Harbor , Mi 48320. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong on Feb 28, 2011
Interact Club - The Club will have an induction sometime in early Spring. Marian has already received their pins that will be distributed during the induction ceremony. The kids will also be doing community works at the Food Bank and World Medical Relief in the coming months |
| Posted by Kelly Wong on Feb 22, 2011
Grub Crawl - John Edwards from La Fontaine has agreed to partner with Lee Jaffke for the Grub Crawl.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong on Feb 14, 2011
Children of the Dump - we had Donna schmitt, past president of allen Park Rotary Club to speak to us about her visit to Nicaragua, where she learned about the Children of the Dump. These are children who are so poor that they gather at the city dump and get their meals from scraps dumped there. They also find the remains of refrigerator boxes, cardboard, paper, et cetera, to make lean-to shelters to live in and be protected from the outside elements.
One of the saddest stories she shared was about a young girl, 12 years old, who Donna met on her first trip to Nicaragua, She and her mother were lucky enough to be placed in a 10 by 10 foot home in the Rotary Village, and she was able to go to school, where she received two meals a day. But after a year, Donna saw the girl and her mother living back at the dump, as her mother felt they were too capitalist a society and didn't want that connection. How sad, especially because they probably will never have another chance to live in their own home and move out from the streets. It brought tears to all of our eyes. Donna shared several opportunities for us to participate as a Club and continue our mission and 4 Way test.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong on Feb 07, 2011
Michelle Economu, the West Bloomfield Township Supervisor gave us her "State of the Township" Speech that she will present on Feb. 16th at Town Hall. It was very informative and she spent a good deal of time answering questions.Anyone who is interested in hearing her speech is welcome to attend the Town Hall Meeting.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong on Jan 28, 2011
Interact - As a continuing recruiting process, members of the Interact Club (Angela, Sam, Nick & Venessa) went to the Orchard Lake Middle School to talk to the kids about Interact on Thursday. Interact Day - 2 students and 2 adults will be attending the Interact Day on Feb. 5 in Ann Arbor. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong on Jan 23, 2011
Strive - The nine students were interviewed which resulted in 2 students being selected and one alternative, in the event that for any reason one of those chosen could no longer participate.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong on Jan 23, 2011
Interact - Marian reported on the Interact Club meeting this past Tuesday. There were 14 students and 3 potential students at the meeting. We have enough students to Charter this club. Our club also discussed how to celebrate the Charter of the Interact club. It may be a dinner, a coffee/desert reception, or a pizza party.
At the Interact meeting, the kids came up with the following ideas for future projects:
World Aid Ideas: Project C.U.R.E, Toothbrush Project, Polio Project
Community Aid Ideas: can food drive, blanket drive, volunteering at local places
Fundraising: movie nights, bake sales, car washes, pop cans, pop tabs bracelets
In order to get the initial funding for projects, they are going to collect pop cans in their neighborhoods and then use the money to buy materials to raise money for future projects like Project C.U.R.E (send medical supplies to the needed).
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
Strive - Both current students earned their $500 for the first semester. The full payment has been made for our very first students who are both studying this year.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
On December 9th a group of us Rotarians had breakfast at the Sunrise Senior Living Facility in West Bloomfield as a guest of Portia McDonald, Director. They served us a wonderful full breakfast and then we were taken on a tour of the building. Those of us in attendance were: Judy and her handsome husband, Hal. Joan and her Southfield Rotarian husband, Joel. Scott, Shelley, Marion and her lovely friend, Alice, who has joined us before on many occasions.Sunrise is a beautiful facility, and we were all very impressed.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
Grub Crawl - Lee presented our club with a check for $2,189.00, our portion of proceeds from the Grub Crawl. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Interact Club - The first Interact Club meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 30 at the W. Bloomfield Orchard Lake Middle school at 2:30 PM. Lynn Morgan and Laurie McVey will be there.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
We did not have regular meeting this week. Instead we (Joan, Lee, Bob, Shelley, Marian and 2 other guests) had a tour of the Josephine Ford Breast Cancer Center at the West Bloomfield Henry Ford Hospital. Next meeting will be held on Thursday, November 11, in our usual place and usual time of 7:30 A.M.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
Interact Club - Kathlyn is working with the principal and one of the teachers from West Bloomfield High School to form the club. There are 5-10 students interested.
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Thanksgiving Baskets - The list is prepared and some have already signed up for items to be distributed. Joan is waiting for the list of families from the schools. The West Bloomfield Thanksgiving Dinner will be on Sunday, November 14th at 5:00p.m. Please RSVP with Joan at (248)661-2156.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
Grub Crawl - We had a total of $5690.00 from the proceeds minus expenses of $1397.00 yielded a profit of $4293.00 to be divided between the Chamber and the Rotary Club. There was again a discussion concerning the pricing of the tickets. Only 46 tickets were sold to persons not involved in sponsorship.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
Interact Club - Kathlyn and Judy already have 5 students ready to form a club. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
This week we have John Steiner, member of the Farmington Rotary Club, spoke to us on the history of Polio Plus Program, that he was intrumental in founding. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Grub Crawl -we had a very good turn out. The proceeds will be approximately the same as last year. Approx. $2000.00.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
Grub Crawl - Everyone had a great time at this yearly event. Meanwhile we are still collecting all the proceeds, and expenses are not all paid yet. We should be able to post the figures once we have everything in. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
We were fortunate to have our speaker, past district governor and fellow Farmington Rotarian Lynn Morgan, chair of many Interact Clubs in the District 6380 to speak to us regarding setting up Interact Club at local schools. Also in attendance, future charter members of our new WB Interact Club, Angela Ng, Kelly's lovely daughter and friend, Emily Vrbensky. With these two bright young women at the helm of Interact, it can't be anything but a great success. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Rotary Club of West Bloomfield is partnering with The Greater West Bloomfield Chamber Of Commerce again to host the 6th Grub Crawl - "Taste of the Town" Tuesday, September14 from 6-9:30pm. Click on "More" or the Grub Crawl title to see more details. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Visualize and Plan Our Future -
We had Gerry Jackson, Past District Governor of Davisburg club presented to our club how we can plan our club's future in the next 5 years at the WB library yesterday.
Lynn Morgan, Interact & Rotaract Chair of Farmington club, Steve Youtz, District Governor Elect of Milford club, and Lorrie McVey, Assistant Governor of the Lakes Area club were also there to help us.
During the meeting, we did a "Vision Exercise", pretending we are in year 2015 and looking back what we have done to our club in the past 5 years (i.e. 2010 - 2015) on the following categories:
Vision (e.g. what does our club "Stand For" in our Community),
Club size & Attributes (e.g. our membership size, characteristics, demographics)
Club Service (e.g. membership evelopment/recruitment and retention, weekly programs)
Vocational Service (e.g. Strive, Interact)
Community Service (e.g. Pancake breakfast)
Humanitarian Service Fundraising (e.g. how much we have aised for Grub Crawl)
InternationalService (e.g. youth exchange program)
Foundation success and Foundation fund raising achievements (e.g. Paul Harris Fellows)
Public Image Development (e.g. what methods we used to promote our image - newsletter, welcome brochures) We generated so many ideas during the 3 hours meeting. Our president, Marian will be sharing those information to our club members in the coming meetings. We will be using these to make plans and goals that will lead us into the next five years.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
Visualize and Plan Our Future - We will have NO Meeting on August 26. Instead we will have a rotary presentation from 5:30 - 8:30 PM at the Main West Bloomfield Library by Jerry Jackson who will help us to visualize and plan our future. Please plan to attend. Dinner will be provided. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Thank You - A thank you note was received from Lillian Reiss for the tray that we sent for the Shiva of Jerry. A thank you note was sent to Dorothy Medalie for her $100 contribution to our Strive program. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Strive - Michael Ziegler has applied for his scholarship money of approx. $1500.00. As of today, Bob is waiting to hear from the school that the money will be applied, and he will inform us as soon as that information is available. We are still waiting for the WBHS to evaluate the grades of our two current students, so that we may determine if they were eligible for scholarship funds this past semester of their junior year in school. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Grub Crawl - Lee Jaffke gave a brief report on the progress for our Grub Crawl on September 14, 2010. He passed around a list of sponsors and restaurants. Things are progressing smoothly. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Grub Crawl - The Grub Crawl is to be on September 14, 2010 from 6-9:30 p.m. and the shirts (tickets) are $40.00 per person. The shirts should be printed and available in August. The theme this year is "Taste of the Town" . La Fountaine car dealership in Waterford will be supplying shuttles for this event. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Strive - Bob Lask gave his report on the progress of the Strive Program. Currently, he is not able to get the final results of the grades for our students. He will continue to contact the school. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Jerry Reiss - We missed Jerry Reiss, who passed away on the July 4 weekend, the funeral was last week. Those that attended the funeral were amazed at the variety and abundance of accomplishments of Jerry in his 82 years, and of his dedicated service for so many years in Rotary, including his presidency of the Southfield Rotary Club. His passing is a great loss for our club and our community. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
New President - On July 1, 2010, Marian Soditch begins her term as president. After she presented the entire club with new pins commemorating the new Rotary year with the logo "Building Communities and Bridging Continents", she presented Tony Lauri with a plaque for the outstanding service to our club as Treasurer for all these years. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
President Steve Ketcham was not able to be with us today as he had trouble with his car and needed to get it repaired. Marian opened the meeting followed with the Pledge of allegiance to the flag by Joan Bussell and Leonard led us with the 4-Way Test. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Vision Facilitation Program - Past District Governor Gerry Jackson is going to present the program to us sometimes in August. This program will lead us into the future of our Rotary Club. We will be making plans and goals that will lead us into the next five years. Gerry wanted to know which night would be best for our club. It was decided that a Thursday evening would work out for most of us. We hope that Steve will be able to let us use the conference room at the library. More information will be coming. The program lasts about 3 hours. We plan on having Pizza and a salad for dinner. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
President Night Celebration - Preident Steve Ketcham opened the meeting by welcoming everyone to our President Night celebration. We had 34 adults and 4 children attending the dinner meeting. Leonard Trunsky gave the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. Dorothy Friedl, a charter member of the club gave us a beautiful invocation before dinner.
Geebee Thimotheose gave us a toast to the Office of the President of the United States of America.
Bob Lask gave us a toast to the Queen.
We all enjoyed a delicious dinner of our choice. Pollo Picata, Linguini Fresca, Tuscan Chicken, Salmon balsamica, and the children enjoyed chicken fingers and french fries. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
President Steve opened the meeting today with the pledge of allegiance to the flag given by Marian. The 4-way test was given by Leonard Trunsky.
RYLA - Our porgram today is the RYLA students who went to the RYLA camp a few weeks ago. Bob Lask escorted the RYLA students into the meeting room along with Kelly Wong and Linda Kasenauer, the mothers of the students. Janelle Kasenauer, her brother Avery Hausenauer and Angela Ng. Avery and Janelle prepared a project display board which had lots of pictures showing the beautiful campus at the University of Guelph, Ridgetown, Ontario, Canada. Nice pictures of some of the students and the new friends they made. Each student told of their three day stay there. Angela said they made a lot of new friends and met students from all over the world. They felt it was a wonderful learning experience. We now have 3 students who will be the future leaders in our community and in the world. There were 120 students who attended the conference. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Today , Leonard Trunsky let us in the Pledge of allegiance to the Flag and Lou Peters led us in the Four Way Test. Pennies for Polio - Kathlynn Putnam brought in the Certificates that will be presented to the Principal of the Green Elementary School. One is for their contribution to the Polic Plus Foundation and the other is for the contribution to the Haiti Relief. A total of $3,000.00 was sent to Rotary International. This was the amount that was raised by the students and parents from the school. Shelly had a wonderful idea regarding the Pennies for Polio. Governor Judy was able to locate all the banks that we needed. The presentation will be made at the Presidents night celebration. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
West Bloomfield Library - President Steve Ketcham informed us that on August 3, 2010 the West Bloomfield Township Public Library will be asking voters to renew the .6586 mill for the general library operations. He said it is not an increase but it is the same rate that voters approved in 1997 for 15 years, and the Headlee Amendment has rolled back or reduced the rate to .6586. The library is requesting renewal only of the rolled back rate of .6586 mills for the same amount of time, in order to continue library operations after December 2011, when the millage expires. If the renewal is not approved they will have to make drastic cuts. Please help Steve out and vote for the millage renewal on the August 3, primary ballot. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
RYLA - Our Rotary Youth Leadership Awards program starts on Friday May 14th. We are sending three students and also Jorge our Exchange student from Mexico. We will be hearing from them when they return. They will let us know how much they enjoyed the Leadership Program. Usually we receive a letter from each student. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Newest Member - President Steve Ketcham introduced our newest Member to all of us today - Kathlyn Putnam. She was inducted on May 1, 2010 at the District Conference in front of over 200 Rotarians. Her busines name is ADMIN FOR HIRE. LLC Her telephone # is 248-562-7685. e-mail # is mailto:ocadminforhire@gmail.com She designed the map we used for the Grub Crawl last year. Her daughter Samantha and Nick Foster were the two students that spearheaded the Walk-AThon at the High School which raised $200.00 to go to Haiti Relief. Kathlyn, welcome to Rotary. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Strive - We were happy to have our two Strive students with us today. They are Alexander Finkelstein and Matthew Brooks. They are both attending the Oakland Technical Center in Novi. They each introduced themselves. Alexander would like to be a Park Ranger. He also said he plays the Banjo, likes track and cooking. Matthew wants to be a Head Chef. He plays the Sax. Shelly, Bob, John and the two students left the meeting and went to breakfast. We have invited them and their parents to attend our June 10th Presidents night. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
District Assembly - Governor Judy Garver and Marian gave us a re-cap on the District Assembly. The assembly was held at Walsh College April 10, 2010. Marian attended Gerry Jackson's class on Vision Facilitation. This is a long term goal that we make for our club. It will help us increase our membership, do more service projects, help our members support the Rotary International Foundation, help us develop leaders in our club. We will get together with Gerry in the near future. He has had this program with several other clubs and it is very successful. |
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Haiti Relief - The clothes that were collected by members of our club were delivered by Joan Bussell to the Hartland club. She said it is amazing to see how organized this group of Rotarians of a club for 9 months old. They had a very big truck filled with very good clothing. They picked up clothing that was donated by the Rotary clubs in Canada at the border. The clothing will be distributed by the Rotary club in Port au Prince Haiti.
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District Conference - Steve discussed the Club Display that we will be getting together at the District Conference. If you have any items pertaining to this please bring them to the next meeting. We would be displaying the t-shirts that we wore and any other items that would portray this wonderful fundraiser. |
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District Conference - Steve is in charge of setting up a display table at the District Conference. John Keeler volunteered to help him. It was suggested that we display our T-Shirts from GRUB CRAWL.
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Literacy Conference Report - District Governor Judy Garver gave us a report on the Literacy Conference she attended on March 13, 2010. It was held at the Oakland University. They had many very good speakers who emphasized the importance of
reading to children . They were experts in their fields of education. It was an excellent program. Unfortunately, president Steve Ketcham was not able to attend as he was very sick.
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Literacy Conference - Steve will be attending a Literacy Seminar Saturday March 13. District Governor Judy Garver will also be attending. This is the first Literacy Seminar in our District. Registration is available on the District Web Site. The cost is $30.00. Rotarians, Educators, and Librarians would be very interested in the programs that will be presented. Time is 8 am to 4:30 pm.
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Strive - Bob Lask gave a report on the Strive students. He met with 4 students yesterday. Tyler has won his $500.00 scholarship. His grade point average has been brought up to 3.1. Bob was very proud of him. Report cards will be out the middle of April and Bob will keep us informed.
Jorge, our Exchange student is coming along real well. Tony Lauri and his wife Susan will have Jorge stay with them the week that the last Host family will be on vacation. There is no school that week.
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Exchange Student - Tony Lauri informed us that we have a 3rd Host Family for Jorge. Kendra Hearn has found this family for us. They are the Iwrey family. Their oldest son graduated from West Bloomfield High School. He is now successfully completing a degree at the Tulane University. Their other son Jack is a freshman at the High School. The family had planned a vacation for April 5 to April 12. We will need to ask each member what they can do to take Jorge in as a guest during the time they are going to be on this vacation. There is no school at this time. Please contact Tony or Steve asap. Jorge will be going home to Mexico July 2, 2010.
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District Governor's Domonican Republic trip - Judy was in Domonican Republic along with five other Rotarians. She told us about three houses that were being built for $1,300.00 each. This was a project they are working on. The Rotary clubs in this country are very busy helping in every way they can. She also talked about the Bio Sand Filters which was their mission. |
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Haiti - Every club in our District has responded to help meet the needs in the crises in Haiti. We have received about $10,000.00 for Shelter Boxes. Judy wanted to thank all of our members for responding in whatever way you did.
Past District Governor Dennis Torp who is chairman of The World Medical Relief in our area and Lola Glass from Troy is on the Board of Directors. They have asked us to let all our members know they are working on a third container of Medical suppllies to be shipped to Haiti. You may contibute through the web at www.worldmedicalrelief.org. The Medical supplies are donated and packaed in huge trailers to be sent where needed when full. Contributions cover the shipping costs to send these ontainers. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
District Foundation Gala - This is an evening to celebrate the work of Rotary. It will be held on Thursday February 18, 2010 at the Dearborn Inn 20301 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, Michigan Featuring Guest Speaker, Past Rotary International Director Mike McCullough. The cost per ticket is $35.00. Cash Bar reception starts at 5:30pm - 6:15pm. 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm is the Program and Dinner. The Dinner is Chicken Stuffed with Panacetta or Vegetarian Vegetable Staker. Everyone in our club is invited to attend. Please register at http://www.clubrunner.ca/dprg/dxhome/dxeventstab/_eventitem.aspx?did=6380&index=8304&linkcat=5&dir=f&tail=3. You will meet the new Group Study Exchange team. The inbound Ambassadorial Scholars. It will be a very exciting evening. Deadline to register is February 12. Marian and Judy are planning to attend this event. Our club is going to receive a special commendation. |
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Membership - Governor Judy Garver suggested that we have a membership meeting to help us increase our membership and let the community learn about what Rotary is doing in our community and around the world. Scott Brills will be doing this program on Sunday February 28, 2010 at 3:30 PM at the West Bloomfield Main Library. Joan will take care of the refreshments and drinks for this event. Marian will be heading up this committee with a few Rotarians to make sure this is a successful event. |
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Membership Summit - Governor Judy Garver gave us a report on the Berkley High School Membership Seminar that held last Saturday. They came up with a lot of good ideas on how we can increase our membership and retain the members we already have.
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| Posted by Steve Ketcham
We had a great turnout yesterday for GeeBee's induction. Welcome to the club GeeBee! |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Induction - G. B. Thimotheose was inducted by Assistant Governor Steve Youst at the meeting. Shelly Newman is G. B.'s sponsor.
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Officersfor next year - President : MarianSoditch, Secretary: Joan Bussell, Treasurer : Tony Lauri. Lee Jaffke, and Steve Ketcham will be on the Board of Directors. We stillare looking for someone to volunteer to be President Elect for next year. If you would like to take this job please let president Steve know as soon aspossible. |
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Strive – John, Shelly and Bob will be interviewing 13 students at West Bloomfield High school next Monday.
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Detroit Rotary Club Visit - Steve informed us that we will be meeting the Detroit Rotary Club in January. He will let us know the date soon as he can. |
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Grub Crawl profit - Ann Corwell presented us with a check today of $2,260.26. This was the money we made as profit from the Grrub Crawl. Thanks to all of you. This money will go into our Charity fund. The money is needed to help fund our STRIVE program. |
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Board Meeting - Our Board of Directors meeting will be held after our regular meeting next Thursday.
Walled Lake Northern High School Interact Club -
Marian received an e-mail from Lynn Morgan regarding a fund raising proceeds to go to irradiation of Polio. It will be held this Sunday(11/15) at the Walled Lake Northern High School at 2.00 pm. Admission is $3.00. It is a musical put on by the students orchestra, band and choir. Please plan on attending and bring along a friend or two.
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Thanksgiving Holiday Party - This coming Sunday (Nov. 8) at 5:30 PM isthe Holiday Party at Joan's house. We will be setting up 6 baskets andsend to 6 families in Sylvan Lake. Please remember to bring the foods you had signed up to Joan's house before or on Sunday.
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Max & Erma's Day Recap - We had a wonderful lunch with our club members as well as the Farmington and Southfield clubs. The total sales for the event was $513.00. Thanks Joan for organizing that. |
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Max & Erma's Day (10/22 at 11:45 AM) - Please remember that we don't have morning meeting next Thursday, instead we'll have lunch meeting with both Rotary Clubs of Farmington and Southfield at Max & Erma's. GeeBee Thimotheose will be our speaker. See you there! |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Max & Erma's Day - Both Rotary Clubs of Farmington and Southfield accepted our invitation. Joan had sent out the color coded(Southfield club - blue, Farmington club - white, and our club - yellow) Max & Erma's coupons to clubs and our members.
Joan will tally up the receipts from the sales so that we know who gets the most by club and by member. |
| Posted by Kelly Wong
Max & Erma's Day - Both Rotary Clubs of Farmington andSouthfield accepted our invitation. The lunch is $12 including taxesand tips. Invitation emails will send out to our club members as wellas persons in charge of the other 2 clubs.
Club members, please click the Accept button when you get the email to book your slot in this fun event! Remember, friends and family are welcome!
Exchange Student -We got an update from Tony on Jorge. He is well adjusted in school andparticipating in a lot of school activities. We will be sending himclub news/bulletins to keep him abreast of our club's activities. By the way, he went with his host parents to the Grub Crawl event and enjoyed that very much.
Meanwhile,we are still looking for a third host family in the West Bloomfielddistrict for Jorge from April 1 to June 31 of 2010. Please let Tonyknows if you have some potential host families for this. |
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Grub Crawl - We will have a Grub Crawl recap meeting next week after the regular meeting. Please send your comments to Steve prior to next Thursday.
Max & Erma's Day - It is set for Oct. 22 at 11:45 AM. The club decided to invite Farmington and Southfield clubs to join this fund raising event. Joan is going to work on the flyers to see if we can add in the WB Rotary information and programs.
Strive - Bob continues to work with WB High School on the choice of candidates before Winter.
Judy - We have Judy joined us at the meeting today. She gave a recap on some of her activities for the last couple weeks -
(i) Interviews with the candidates for the Ambassador Scholars
(ii) Rotary Foundation meeting at the District Level
(iii) A project that was done by a Rotary Club in Korea to plant trees in Mongolia.
Polio -
Judy sent out an email to the club a few days ago regarding the "End Polio Now Tagline for Your Emails"
Please attach this tag line to all your personal emails.
Help us end Polio: www.rotary.org/endpolio
- We also discussed some of the ways that we will be starting the Polio project at local WB school. One idea is to weigh the polio boxes that will be distributed to student to see how "heavy" the kids collect. Please contact Shelly if you have a weight scale for this event.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
Grub Crawl Re-Cap - Everybody had a good time on Tuesday night. Ann gave us some preliminary report on the revenues. Most likely we will beat last year's number by around $500. Please send photos to Kelly to post if you have taken some.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
Grub Crawl - Shelly gave us the latest update on the Grub crawl. She and Marian were selling T-shirts at the WB Henry Ford Hospital yesterday. Club members are assigned to man the participating restaurants from 5:45 PM to around 6:20 PM next Tuesday. You can get the Grub Crawl Map at our website if you didn't get it from Shelly this morning.
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| Posted by Kelly Wong
Grub Crawl - Shelly gave us a report on the Grub crawl. We will have a stall for Grub Crawl in the WB Henry Ford Hospital next Wednesday morning. She also passed out a sign up sheet for manning the participating restaurants. Please call Shelly at (248) 737-0266 regarding the details and tickets. We will be posting more details(map and menus) of the function on our website soon.
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