Club Assembly

The Club Assembly was opened with the Club singing "God Bless America" in honor of Nazi Germany's surrender to the Allies, 80 years ago today. Mike Ladwig followed with a meditative thought.

Reminder: District Convention will be held 5/30- 6/1 at St. Claire College in Windsor.

Pat Zucal has a new email address, which will be found in the group chat. 

Bill Friske discussed our club's 4-way-test soccer ball reorder progress. He brought a sample ball that was provided by a Michigan-based distributor. The new balls will be more expensive, but of better quality than our previous balls. Bill has taken the lead in this project 

Churchill High School's peace pole was discussed. This pole was installed by the school, and the garden around it needs some work as it's getting overgrown. It was suggested that the Interact club there could clean up the area.

Rotary Park Rebuild: Cherry blossom trees were planted on the road leading into the park on May 3rd with the help of AM and Noon Rotary Clubs, as well as the Kiwanis Club and several schools. Steve Alexander was the lead on this project. Wayne Kinney helped to get a videographer who recorded several people giving their thoughts and memories of Rotary Park. These vignettes will be used in the fundraising for the Park.

Interact Clubs: Churchill HS Interact Club held an end-of-year program for its members on May 5th. They are hard at work planning Touch a Truck. Stevenson HS had its first Interact Club meeting.

Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) was held May 2nd- 4th with 100 student participants. It was reported that there was a lot of discussion among the participants about mental health. Erin Dobbins reported that she had a great time mentoring an assigned group of students throughout the entire RYLA weekend.

Greg Greene reminded the members the next road clean-up will be July19th.

Giving Committee:  Bill Friske reported that we approved $2,000 for the Schoolcraft College Foundation Janice Newsome Memorial Scholarships, and $1500 for Livonia Passport to Safety, to be used for pizza that day.

The Livonia Spree beer/wine tent was discussed by Nancy Darga. They have liquor licenses but are still working with 6-7 party stores to help with the wine.  

Susan Paluchniak