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February 20
Randy Baker
Naturalist; Retired Science Teacher; African Animal Photography Safaris; Ecology of Macomb County, a professional university trained biologist and naturalist. In addition to 12 years of university training our naturalist also has experience as a classroom teacher, an author of scientific articles, and as a professional wildlife guide. Randy has been providing programs for schools and other organizations for over 20 years.
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February 27
John Duffy
Enhancement Millage Election “Macomb for Kids” is working with a coalition of community stakeholders in Macomb County to campaign in support of this county-wide millage that would provide critically needed revenue for the 21 school districts in Macomb County. Simply put, Michigan’s school funding system is failing our students. Last year, a bi-partisan group of business leaders and education experts studied this system as part of the School Finance Research Collaborative and concluded that Michigan is drastically underfunding education. Also, an MSU study released this year ranked Michigan “dead last” in the nation for funding our schools. Policy makers in Lansing, however, have been reluctant to enact the necessary reforms to address this problem. That is why Macomb County School Districts are attempting to address this funding crisis through an enhancement millage. The millage would generate an additional $418 per student for all Macomb County public schools. This revenue will permit each district to fund critical programs and services to meet the academic needs of our students. Eight counties in Michigan representing one third of all Michigan students have already passed enhancement millages to improve their schools.
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March 5
Sheriff Anthony Wickersham
County Law Enforcement
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March 12
Angelo DiDonato and Bob Berta
Warren Astronomical Society Angelo DiDonato and Bob Berta are both life long amateur astronomers and retired engineers. I retired as a test and development engineer in the defense and automotive industries while Bob Berta is from San Francisco and retired from the Pacific, Gas and Electric Company. An overview of the WAS, our observatory at Wolcott Mill, the services we offer, and how we interface with the general public through our outreach program.
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March 19
Karen Straffon
Gold Star Family Monument in Clinton Township
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March 26
Diane Banks
Advancing Macomb
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April 2
The Macombers
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April 9
General Doug "Odie" Slocum
Retired Brigadier General Selfridge ANGB
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April 16
Field Trip
Macomb County COMTEC As a follow up to our presentation from John Abraham in the county roads department, we will hold our meeting at the Macomb County COMTEC site and enjoy a tour of the facility.
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April 23
Col. Brian Donnellon
Selfridge ANGB Air Show
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April 30
Julie Angst
Harrison Township Boat Parade
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May 7
Jenifer DeBellis
Local Author
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June 5
100TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY
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June 11
No Meeting ~ President's Party
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July 4
No Meeting ~ Happy 4th of July
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July 9
Hank Wolfe Rodriguez
Forgotten Harvest
The Pledge was lead by Glenn Burton and “The Four-Way Test” and the prayer were lead by Bill Patterson, doing double duty.
Happy Birthday to Tina! Our wonderful host each week.
MUSIC
Everyone fined $2 for not having your pins or name tags.
ounder of the Mobile Outreach Clinic
