This is Tracy's third year and the 102nd Coast Guard Festival. Her first - the 100th!
With 350,000 visitors each year and featuring 35 events, the Coast Guard Festival serves as a shining star for our community. The theme this year is "1776 gave us a nation, and 1790 gave us its guardians".
Noteable highlights or changes for this year include:
- The Mackinaw, Neah Bay, and a decommissioned buoy tender, Sundew will be featured in the Parade of Ships
- The drone show will be featured on Friday night this year.
Friday at 4:00 is the memorial service down at Escanaba park.
Wedding Anniversaries: Denny & Barb Dryer (55 Years), John & Melissa King (16), Bill & Aileen Redeker (57 Years)
Rotary Anniversaries: Bill Vanlopik (10 Years), Denny Dryer (42 Years), Dave Swain (30 Years), Tim Stoepker (4 Years), Kennard Creason (49 Years), Dean Reisner (16 Years)
Announcements:
Jeep Raffle Update! We sold 627 Tickets, with a total of 24,000 in income - $18,063 to the school and the remainder for our international water project. Thank you to everyone for your support!
We're committed to set up chairs for Coast Guard Festival. We could use 3-4 more people at Lynn Sherwood stadium on Sunday July 26th at 3:30PM. This does take a couple of hours to set up. We'll also need help with teardown after the show. If we have a lot of people, it'll be helpful!
We are currently working on plans in partnership with The Eagles on a Taste of Grand Haven event for either June or September of 2027. Working with The Eagles will allow us to create a possible new signature event. More information to follow when more details are known.
Our next flag placement is happening August 1st! We will be meeting at 7am, and flag removal will take place on August 2nd at 7pm! As usual, we will plan on meeting at Burger King. We still need volunteers to help with both set-up and take-down. Please respond to John's email if you are able to assist!
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. The next two 5th Mondays will be in August and November (where there are 5 Mondays for the month). More information to come!
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.
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 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!
