GUESTS AND VISITORS
Amanda Oparka announced the guests and visitors today. Today we were joined by our speaker, State Representative Doug Wozniak and Lisa Dannon who works with Doug as well as Assistant District Governor Tom Neveau.    

 

 

Julie Miller handled the flowers.

 

 

 

 

 

Birthdays:
Jeff Furest
Paul Woodring who turned 90!

 

Gloria Murray celebrated her 42nd anniversary.

 

Nancy Dedenbach had her 30th club anniversary today!

 

Steve Krankota bought a flower for Dave for a ride to the meeting today

Gary bought a flower for Tina for a delicious lunch

Tom Neveau bought a flower for Karan for being a wonderful president.

Ken Steele bought a flower for Julie Miller for helping him with the flowers today.

 

 

 

Ken Steele lead us in music today with "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "All Hail to Rotary."

 

 

 

 

 

 

100-YEAR FUNDRAISER UPDATE - JEFF FUREST MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT
 
New brochures have been created updating the look of the gala event as well as including a formal reservation and payment sheet. These brochures will be available at every meeting, so please take some and continue to promote the event.
 
We now have five VIP tables sold at the $3,600 discount price for $18,000 in revenue.  There are only eight VIP tables left, so please reserve yours as soon as possible.
 
Up until last week Friday, we had the Destination Hawaii Experience and the Destination Scottsdale AZ Experience completely funded. As of  Wednesday, November 20, I have secured a Century sponsor for $50,000 to cover the Nancy Lopez Experience AND the Jack Daniels Whiskey Barrel hard Costs! Our ENTIRE money making items are completely paid for! More information will be forthcoming on the Jack Daniels destination experience considering this funding is complete.

 

Additionally, in working with McLaren Macomb Foundation and Dana Camphous-Peterson and her resources, Steve Krankota and the YMCA and his resources, the fundraising committee can confirm they have secured up toward $60,000 in services to promote the event, including a comprehensive website dedicated to our annual funding purposes. Website services provided by Hunch Free, promotion and media services provided by Executive Mark Hackel's media production office and Mad Hat Media.

 

Since our planning launch in August, given cash contributions, concessions and abatements and provided services, we have in excess of $230,000 in resources thus far in our goal of achieving 350 in attendance and a net $100,000 for our beneficiaries!  In this regard with this latest generous donor, we now have a clear goal toward raising $150,000!
 
Next fundraising meeting is Wednesday, November 27 at 1 p.m. at the Macomb Family YMCA in Mount Clemens.  Everyone is welcome to attend to get updated and to share ideas to promote our event. Have a great Thanksgiving!

 

 

Jeff Furest was up for recognition!

 

Any hunters that didn't get anything (yet) were fined $2 and Eric was fined for his second deer that he didn't pay for in advance last week.
MSU fans were fined for the debacle against the Wolverines.
Gary was fined for a phone call that he got last week while he was supposed to be playing music ... priorities!
Nancy was fined $2 for not playing euchre because of the odd number of players
Julie Miller was fined for being dressed most like Christmas (might have been a little stretch to call it Christmas clothes)!
Paul Woodring was fined for looking way too young to be 90 and the rest of his table was fined for the privilege of sitting with him!
Dave Gerlach was fined (again) for being the most missed!
Everyone that had Christmas decorations up already had to pay $2.
One table was fined for not knowing that PolioPlus was created in 1985.

 

Doug Wozniak our state representative was our speaker for today. He is an attorney who practices in Shelby Township. He was elected to the 36th district in 2008. In his early years in office he helped stop spending and was able to get rid of all the debt. He then was able to build a police department, two fire departments, and a library by paying cash for all of them and not incurring any debt! They have also been able to invest $500,000/year and use that money to improve the roads in the area.

In his law practice, he specializes in elder law, real estate law, Medicare/Medicaid, estate planning, veterans planning. His group has no charge for advice which helps people to at least get the information that they need in many areas of law so they can know the best thing to do for things like estate planning and health insurance issues among other important topics.
 
Doug is on multiple committees in the legislature. He is on the Judiciary Committee where he helped to change the age to 17 for criminals to go to the regular jail and be housed with other juvenile inmates. They have a goal of teaching people who committed crimes to become a regular person again so they can go back to society and be contributors. After 10 years, nonviolent crimes come off their record to help with employment. Once they are in society this helps increase earning and productivity by 25%.

 

Mr. Wozniak is on a committee for medical spending. He helped to end surprise billing so that patients will no longer get a surprise bill after hospital stays or surgery. Non emergencies will give charges up front before procedures. Also he placed extended care facilities adjacent to ASCs for any short term hospital needs after surgical procedures which saves the patient money compared to full hospital admission.

The legislature is having discussions with the governor on budget. The governor recently had 147 vetos for $1.6 billion budget modifications. This is causing many problems with money for state programs and they are working to resolve these issues as quickly as possible.

 

The newly minted 90-year-old, Paul Woodring, won the 50/50.