This week, the Grand Haven Rotary Club welcomed our speaker, Chris Vallette with Alive on the Lakeshore.
Alive on the Lakeshore is the non-profit organization that runs Unity Christian Music Festival, Unity Christian events, and One in Christ Collaborative.
This year, Unity Christian Music Festival is taking place in Muskegon August 5th through 8th. Roughly 50,000 people attend each year! This is an all ages event, where families can come together and enjoy all that Muskegon and West Michigan have to offer. As a non-profit event, after they pay all of the expenses of the event, any remaining proceeds are donated to over 15 local non-profit partners. So far, there has been over a $1.5 million impact to our local non-profits.
One in Christ Collaborative is a new organization that strives to assist local non-profits with connections to business leaders locally that can assist in support to local non-profits. From HR to training, board education to fund development, they offer a wide variety of assistance and trainings!
Organizationally, they have these main goals:
*Help Non-Profits Organizations and Host Excellent Events
Wedding Anniversaries: Chris Mountford (May 20th, 20 years), Marc Eickholt (May 22nd, 22 years), Dale VanZantwick (May 22nd, 55 years), Tom Baetens (May 25th, 47 years)
Rotary Anniversaries: Jay Greer (May 18th, 28 years), Robert Bacon (May 19th, 1 year), Marc Eickholt (May 22nd, 3 years), James Tompkins (May 23rd, 4 years)
Announcements:
June 8 is the Spring Lake vs. Grand Haven Golf Challenge. Check the signup sheet at the meetings - all abilities welcome and encouraged to play!
The Grand Haven Rotary Club is offering a match to earn your first Paul Harris Award. If you are a first time recipient, a $250 donation can turn in to this important award.
Special thanks to John King, Chris Mountford, and Jeremy Swiftney for working Sunday to prepare the boulevard for flag placement on Memorial Day. They were able to bore out and replace old holes, so we will have less issue placing the flags!
John King sent an email out regarding the flag placement for Memorial Day. Keep your eyes peeled for details if you missed it! We will be meeting at 7:00am at Burger King to place them, and again at 7:00pm to pick them up! We also need assistance rolling flags downtown, starting around 6:00pm.
We are currently working on plans in partnership with The Eagles on a Taste of Grand Haven event for September. Working with The Eagles will allow us to create a possible new signature event. More information to follow when more details are known.
NEW TO ROTARY - 5th Monday Meetings! These are meetings set to replace the traditional Monday noon meeting with a social after-hours event, replacing the regularly scheduled meeting. Additional 5th Mondays will be in August and November (where there are 5 Mondays for the month). More information to come!
The Rotary Store is now open and closes tomorrow. Check your email for a link to the website and order today!
Change for Change jar is on the back table. Drop your change to assist our Interact Club in granting additional Micro-Loans with the Interact Club of Grand Haven High School.
We have a Rotary Spotlight every month on WAWL.
The Jeep Raffle is live. The Grand Haven aquatics center is the beneficiary and the drawing will be this summer. We are currently just over 235 tickets sold. Let's sell 1,000 tickets!
We are in search for our next Peace Fellow to study overseas. If you know of someone looking for education or a career change please let Gernot know.
50/50 Raffle: We had no winners today - the new pot rolls over!
Coffee at the Grand Haven Rotary Meetings provided by Kenzie's BE Cafe - please be sure to thank them by visiting the shop for a coffee or your next meeting!
