Club Meeting Featuring President Nancy Darga's "Year in Review"

The meeting began with the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by the Invocation given by Mike Ladwig. Sharon Pommerville collected Happy Bucks and members expressed positive thoughts and current life activities. Dave Burton gave a meaningful quote.

Today’s meeting was Nancy Darga’s last meeting as President. Our new

The president for 2026-27 is Erin H. Dobbins, and she will begin her presidency on July 1, 2026. Nancy prepared a “Year in Review” slide show that captured the highlights of the club’s accomplishments, activities, financial status, and reports from various committee chairs. The club took a vote to approve the proposed Board Members during Erin’s presidency, and all candidates were approved. Names and positions can be found on our Livonia AM Rotary website.

Nancy shared two personal accomplishments: Being awarded Citizen of the Year and completing the opening of the Downs River, a project that began in 2020 and was recently completed. Nancy shared that many obstacles and challenges often seemed too daunting for the project to succeed, but that perhaps it is these very challenges or the worst moment of our lives that present our greatest opportunity to build meaningful connections. Through collective and collaborative efforts, make it possible to overcome the obstacles. Isn’t that the foundation of Rotary?

Nancy went on to list the many accomplishments of our AM club just this year (I am sure I missed some): Updated Membership Directory, Established Volunteer Corps (15 members), two new ongoing social events, completed restoration of

Rotary Park, contributing $94,000, raised by both Livonia Rotary Clubs,

successful fund raiser with Rotary Carnival in its 15th year, upcoming Touch a Truck in its 9th year and the largest event in the City of Livonia, a new and improved soccer ball, new meeting location, and rented storage (making life more comfortable), new Interact Club/Stephenson HS, Tammy went to RYLA where we sponsored three HS students, Spaghetti Dinner/Eradicate Polio, that had an accordion player last year, and meatballs, Road Clean-up (next one is July 18, The winning of the Dick Hedke Award and the Jennifer Jones Award, our support of 92 non-profit organisations, delivery of the ultra sound machine to the Village of Bawok in Cameroon, Africa, joined the Save Sibley Prairie Coalition (440 acres of wetland) and on and on and on and on. What an incredible year!!! Here’s to more to come and many thanks to all our members and Presidential Leaders—could not do all this without each one of you.

Victoria Haltom