Club Meeting Featuring Chris Matus, DTE Community Affairs

Thank you letters were passed around from MI Work Matters and Divine Mercy Academy for the grants they received.

Sharon Pommerville conducted Happy Bucks, and Happy Birthday was sung to Jackie Graham. Mike reminded members to invite potential Rotary members and guests to the third Wednesday meeting of esch month.

Everyone will have the opportunity to meet our new District Governor-Elect, Linda Morrow at the Installation Party on June 14, which will be graciously held at Tammy Bonifield’s cottage.

Churchill HS Interact Club meets on Monday, May 19, and Stephenson HS

Interact Club is up and running. Both clubs will be participating in this year’s Touch a Truck.



Bob Carris mentioned that members can purchase ready made shirts with the Rotary emblem or purchase their own garment and have the logo embroidered onto it for $13.00. Place your order for your ready made Rotary logo shirt or deliver you own shirt for embroidery to Bob by Wednesday, June 4th.

Update on the Rebuild Rotary Park Project is that the Livonia Chamber of

Commerce is sending out flyers to potential large donors.

Today’s speaker was Chris Matus, currently serving as DTE Energy Principal Program Manager for Community Engagement. Chris shared the current and future focus of DTE: to make energy more affordable, more efficient, more clean, and more reliable.

Chris presented a slide show of data supporting DTE’s current position in those areas and where they hope to be by 2029. Improvements are focused on reducing outages by 30%, and fewer minutes of outages by 50%. To achieve this DTE is aware that they need to build stronger poles to withstand wind and that tree trimming needs to be more consistent. DTE hopes to eliminate the use of coal by 2032.

Check your Rotary calendar for the rest of May and June events. Big events include: Livonia Carnival, May 19th -June 6th, District 6400 Conference in Windsor, May 31st, Installation Party at Tammy’s Cottage, June 14th, Livonia Spree June 29th, plus so much more ...

Victoria Haltom