Club Meeting Featuring Paul Sincock, District 6400 Membership Chair

The meeting opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and an Invocation by Greg Greene. Happy Bucks were collected by Sharon Pommerville.

We are trying to keep our club present on the web. The AM Rotary has been successful so far. Bill Friske mentioned that the our club website's carnival page had about 18 thousand visitors, and the wine tasting is getting a couple of hundred a visitors a day.

Upcoming events were mentioned, including:

Wine Tasting at the Spree, Friday, June 26th, 5:00 - 7:00 PM, Eddie Edgar Ice Arena

Meet the Governor, Harrow, Ontario, Social Hour, 5:30, Dinner 7:00 PM, June 30th.

Celebration of the Reading of the Declaration of Independence, copies distributed by Rotarians and Interact Students, Livonia Civic Center City Hall, 5:30 -8:00 PM, July 8th.

Rotary Club Social - Schoolcraft College Vista Tech Center Craft Grill, 5:00-6:30 PM, July 9th.

Our speaker for today was Paul Sincock. Paul is recently retired from working for the city of Plymouth for 48 years. He worked as the City Manager and an ambassador at Metro Airport. He has served as District Governor 2018-19.

Paul is District 6400 Membership Chairman. His focus is on membership and service.

Paul said that membership is the story you create. You need to get the word out through social media. People are looking for connection. You are not having a meeting at 7:30 in the morning, you are having an "experience". They need to have involvement. The first 30 days of membership is important. Service projects: take pictures of projects and post them on social media. Invite the public to join your club. Tag other groups in your project.

Paul challenged us to talk to 5 people not in our club and invite them to visit our club. ACTION items suggested for our Club: The club needs business cards for our members. We need an iPad for people to sign in to events.

Susan Paluchniak