Our fearless president Larry Neal started the meeting 
promptly at 12:15 p.m. on a cloudy but warm Thursday afternoon. Bill Patterson led us in the Pledge, followed by Kelly Allen leading “The Four-Way Test.” The blessing was given by Tom Davies. We were then treated to lunch that included salad, potatoes, green beans, and chicken pot pie.
PRESIDENTIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Larry would like all who are attending the RI convention in Germany to let him know ASAP so we can assign delegates.
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- The club board will be voting on two director-at-large positions for the Foundation Board so let Larry know if you are interested in serving a two-year term 7/1/2019-6/30/2021.
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- If you missed last week, you missed a great presentation from the author of the Faygo book, which won Michigan Notable Book Award. Kate Mazzara will be in next week and she serves on the committee that hands out the award. She will do a book talk about the 2019 winners.
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- Next Thursday the library's own Sarah Von Oeyen will be on the NBC show Jeopardy at 7:30 p.m.
GUESTS AND VISITORS
Ted DeVantier announced our guests and visitors today. Kerry was a guest of Steve Krankota (who wasn't in attendance!) and our speaker was Anthony Lewis.
MEMBER BIRTHDAYS AND FLOWERS
Mary Ann Hosey and Fred Duemling had birthdays today so we sang to Mary Ann who was there to be serenaded! Steve Krankota's wife Brittani also celebrated a birthday. We didn't have any anniversaries or club anniversaries today.
FLOWERS COURTESY OF JEFF FUREST TODAY
Patty Kaufman bought a flower for Val Miller for helping with her event; Paul Woodring bought a flower for Mary Spaulding for coming today; Chuck Dib bought a flower for Jeff Furest for donating to the fundraiser; Gary bought a flower for Bill Patterson; Mary bought a flower for Fred for the BDI!
MUSIC
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Bill Furest chose some excellent music today with the MSU fight song and “R-O-T-A-R-Y” which the club performed beautifully!
GOODWILL AND SUNSHINE
- Margo Baker brought Bob home from his stay in the hospital and he hasn't been feeling very well at all.
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- Tom Hosey's sister passed away Saturday after surgery complications. PLEASE keep her and her family in your prayers.
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- This week Larry received the deed for 7.5 acres of land and his bond was approved! Start the construction of the new library May 4 with groundbreaking at 11 a.m.!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Chuck thanks everyone for purchasing tickets and says we need to sell the rest! Everyone reach out to fellow Rotarians and friends to get the rest of the tickets sold.-
- Kelly Allen is asking for donations for booze and/or gift cards for the auction. Also, you can give her the money and she'll do the work for you!
RECOGNITION
Jeff Furest was on duty and he was super busy handing out fines today!
Jeff began by fining himself for calling out the wrong Mary.
He got back on track and fined Mary Spaulding for all the Rotarians who haven't met her yet.
Chuck Dib and Val Miller did an interview for the Macomb Now magazine and they, along with their tables, were fined $1.
All the Clinton/Macomb residents were fined $1 for the politicians at the library.
Karan (not KAREN) Bates-Gasior was fined $3 for being in the news as well.
All Rotarians who still had a Christmas ornament or two up were fined $2 because now it's spring!
Everyone who was on vacation recently got fined including, but possibly not limited to, Val Miller, Dave Meldrum, Sarah Lee, Ken Steele, Mary Ann Hosey, Bill Patterson, Dave Gerlach, Sam D’Angelo, Mary Bednar, Ted DeVantierArt got a special $5 fine in his absence for running a tough mudder in France!
Michigan fans were all fined $1 for three losses to MSU but given a discount for bad calls (excuses are like . . .)
Anyone missing Rotary pins . . . next week all hardware is required to be on!
Dave Meldrum was fined $10 for inflation with donations to the Rotary box from 25 years ago.
SPEAKER AND PROGRAM
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Anthony Lewis from community outreach for the Macomb Public works talked to us about water projects in Macomb Township. We discussed that Candice Miller is the public works commissioner. She accomplished a lot of goals that were set in 2018. Some of these included:
- 400 miles of open draining
- 526,000,000 gallons of rainwater stored
- 50 draining maintenance projects started
- 16 grants totaling $5,000,000
- 1 "fatberg" removed
Among many others, Public Works is responsible for Rainwater/wastewater management around the County. This was accomplished with open and closed drains. We discussed that most of the open drains are north of them 59 and the closed drains are mostly self of a 59 with exceptions.
Some of the major projects that Candice Miller's trying to finish to clean out the drains include:
- Kukuk drain - clearing overgrowth and the drain
- Dunn drain - clearing to prevent rising water in the surrounding area
- Middle branch of the Clinton river cleanup
- They even pulled out a toy car!
- Current projects include:
- Sterling Relief drain
- Built in the 1960s
- $1.8 million grant from the EPA
- 5,000 treat these, plants and shrubs replanted
- They created a butterfly breathing area to combat the loss of butterflies
Chapoton retention basin in St. Clair Shores opened in 1968. This is a combined waste and storm drain. Working uncontrollably released to maintain a better control of the amount of water and prevent overflow
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Val Miller won $41
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from Brenda K Tipton
District 6380 Assistant Governor 2018-2019
District 6380 Member Chair 2019-2020
District 6380 Governor 2021-2022
brendaktipton@yahoo.com
248-633-3020
The Rotary District 6380 Annual District Conference is your chance to come together with other district club members, friends and family to celebrate a successful year of good works that our 53-club district has achieved under the amazing governorship of Jane McManus!
This year our governor and her committee has decided to break out of the norm and present a wonderful two-day event with incredible speakers and an out-of-this-world boat ride down the Detroit River! Be sure to bring your boat shoes or flip-flops and have fun with your fellow Rotarians across the U.S. and Canada district!
Governor Jane is so excited about this event that she is asking all clubs to have representation! She wants us all together to celebrate the conference theme of "SACRIFICIAL LEADERSHIP" and give us all info on how to further grow our clubs and ask ourselves "are you ready to succeed?"
Friday and Saturday, May 3 and 4, 2019
Crown Plaza Detroit Downtown Riverfront
Detroit Princess Riverboat
2 Washington Blvd., Detroit, MI 48226
Register NOW: https://www.rotary6380.org/
Spread the word, sign up now and let's celebrate being Rotarians and all that we do. Conference schedule and possible additional packages will be posted soon!
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