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Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North 
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Meeting location is at Dixboro United Methodist Church at 5221 Church Street Ann Arbor, MI 48105 View Map.
 
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      Day of the Month       Event     Time
First Monday of the Month Board Meeting 07:00 PM
Second Thursday of the Month Meeting with Program 12:00 PM
Third Thursday of the Month No Meeting  
Fourth Thursday of the Month Meeting with Program 12:00 PM
If Month has Five Weeks The first week will not have a meeting  
 
 
E-mail Address: rotaryclubaan@gmail.com
 
Phone Number: (734)224-4130
 
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Upcoming Events
Zoom Board Meeting & Club Assembly
Zoom
Apr 03, 2023
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
RCAAN Luncheon: Walter Hughes, Ghana WASH Project
Dixboro United Methodist Church
Apr 13, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
 
RCAAN Luncheon
Dixboro United Methodist Church
Apr 27, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
 
Zoom Board Meeting & Club Assembly
Zoom
May 01, 2023
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
RCAAN Luncheon: Steve Fine, Melanoma Edu. Found
Dixboro United Methodist Church
May 11, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
 
RCAAN Luncheon
Dixboro United Methodist Church
May 25, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
 
Zoom Board Meeting & Club Assembly
Zoom
Jun 05, 2023
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
RCAAN Luncheon
Dixboro United Methodist Church
Jun 08, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
 
Tentative President's Night
Jun 22, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
 
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Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North Lunch Meeting on September 22, 2022.
Posted on Sep 22, 2022
On Thursday September 22nd the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North had our last club meeting at the University Living in Ann Arbor. Starting the next club meeting we are going back to the North Side of Ann Arbor to Dixboro United Methodist Church at 5221 Church Road, Ann Arbor of Plymouth Road.
 
At the meeting we started with the Pledge, Four Way Test, Invocation Birthdays and  many Happy Dollars. A Happy Dollar was given for the launch of the 60,000 Tree Challenge to Help Save the Monarch Butterfly on September 10th. It was a beautiful launch event concluded with a release of newly hatched Monarch butterflies, and a signing by several Rotary districts of the Pollinator Pledge organized by Scott R Nelson and Chris Stein of US National Park Service. Four representatives of the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North, plus District Governor Bala Murthy of Rotary District 6380, PDG Jane McManus, Mike McManus of Brighton and the DGs of Rotary District 6400, and Rotary District 6360 working together on this important cause to protect the Monarch.
 
Another Happy Dollar was given by Manish on an approved Grant  for the club, which is connected to solar energy.
 
An announcement was given by Pres Bob about the Tote Bag Membership Project. Bob and other club members are going to the following Farmers Markets to promote Rotary:
  • Sept 24th: Dexter Farmers Market
  • Sept 25th: Sunday Artisan Market
Lastly we had a talk from Dr. Brent Lufgen about climate change in the Great Lakes basin.
 
Brent Lufgen
At The RCAAN Lunch Meeting, Mayor Christopher Taylor Talked About Ann Arbor.
Posted on Sep 08, 2022
At The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North Lunch Meeting on September 8, 2022 our speaker was Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor. 
 
Christopher Taylor is an attorney who has served as the mayor of Ann Arbor, since 2014.
 
Mayor Taylor did not have a presentation, he wanted to take our questions about the City of Ann Arbor. He answered questions about road construction, economic development (new business in Ann Arbor) and many more.
 
Also at meeting Pres. Bob announced that starting the meeting on October 13th, the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North will be moving back to the North Side of Ann Arbor. The new location will be The Dixboro United Methodist Church at 5221 Church Street Ann Arbor, MI 48105. 
 
 
Chris Stein Talks About Operation Pollination At The RCAAN Lunch Meeting On Aug. 25th.
Posted on Aug 25, 2022
At the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North Lunch Meeting on August 25, 2022, Scott Nelson filled in for Pres Bob Specht who was under the weather. 
 
The presentation at the meeting was given by Chris Stein, who talked about Operation Pollination.
 
About Operation Pollination:
 
Operation Pollination is a group that recognizes the importance of pollinator habitat both restored and maintained on public and private lands.  Through collaboration and outreach with partners, an interconnected mosaic of pollinator habitat (with core public areas) will be developed to stabilize and/or increase populations of pollinator species throughout project areas.
 
Given the breadth, severity and persistence of pollinator loss, it is critical to expand efforts to reverse these losses and help restore pollinator populations to healthy levels.  Our Chris said the goal of Operation Pollination is to collaboratively and strategically protect and enhance pollinator species and their habitat on public and private lands by:
  • Increase and Improve Pollinator Habitat:  Work to develop a network of Pollinator friendly habitat on public and private lands;
  • Public-Private Partnerships:  Develop strategic partnerships to improve or create habitat for pollinators as well as provide educational opportunities within the scope of the resolution
  • Education:  Encourage voluntary, collaborative and locally led conservation that has proven to be effective in maintaining and enhancing working landscapes.
Rotary Involvement:
 
In June of 2020 the Rotary International Board of Directors and the The Rotary Foundation Trustees added “supporting the environment” as the 7th Area of Focus.  The Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group (ESRAG) provided both the documentation and the leadership in this effort, and is a partner in Operation Pollination, embracing the effort as an ESRAG Project.
 
Getting Involved?
 
Chris talked about how The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North can get involved. There is 3 easy steps in becoming involved with Operation Pollination:
  1. Develop your own pollinator resolution.
  2. Enlist partners to sign a pollinator pledge.
    • Partners can be large or small, for profit or not-for-profit, government or non-government. 
  3. Put partner names on the back of your resolution.
    • Obtain Widespread Media Attention about your Operation Pollination Project.
Operation Pollination Event in Windsor CA.
 
On September 10, 2022 Bala Murthy (and our own Scott Nelson) is going to sign an Operation Pollination Pledge for District 6380. The event is to celebrate the launch of the "Monarch Butterfly 60,000 Tree Challenge".
 
To watch Operation Pollination presentation given on August 25, 2022:
 
 
Operation Pollination Presentation on August 25, 2020: PowerPoint Presentation From Chris Stein About Operation Pollination.
 
 
 
 
 
Kel Keller Talks About Thomas Jefferson's and Sally Hemings Relationship.
Posted on Aug 11, 2022
At August 11, 2022 Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North Lunch Meeting at Ann Arbor's Pittsfield Branch Library due to a Covid-19 outbreak at University Living, our speaker was Kel Keller who is an author of history on slavery. 
 
Kel's subject of his talk was about the relationship of the United States 3rd President Thomas Jefferson and his relationship with a slave names Sally Hemings.
 
Like countless enslaved women, Sally Hemings bore children fathered by her owner. Female slaves had no legal right to refuse unwanted sexual advances. Sally Hemings was the child of an enslaved woman and her owner, as were five of her siblings.
 
Sally was the half Sister of Martha Jefferson. They shared the same father, little is documented about them, both are industrious, and both had at least 6 children and lost children at infancy.
 
When Sally Hemings was 14, she was chosen by Jefferson’s sister-in-law to accompany his daughter Maria to Paris, France, as a domestic servant and maid in Jefferson’s household. In France Sally was legally free. Sally was reunited with her older brother James, whom Jefferson had brought with him two years earlier to study French cooking. They lived at Jefferson's residence, the Hôtel de Langeac. Maria (Polly) and Martha (Patsy), Jefferson’s older daughter who was already in Paris, lived primarily at the Abbaye Royale de Panthemont, where they were boarding students.
 
Shortly after her arrival, Jefferson’s records indicate that Sally was inoculated against smallpox, a common and deadly disease during that time.
 
Sally received training—especially in needlework and the care of clothing—to suit her for her position as lady's maid to Jefferson's daughters and was occasionally paid a monthly wage of twelve livres (the equivalent of two dollars).
 
Sally was transported from the plantations of Virginia to what Jefferson described as “the vaunted scene of Europe!” Unlike countless enslaved women, Sally Hemings was able to negotiate with her owner. At 16-year-old agreed to return to enslavement at Monticello in exchange for “extraordinary privileges” for herself and freedom for her unborn children. Over the next 32 years Hemings raised four children
 
Sally Hemings had at least six children fathered by Thomas Jefferson. Four survived to adulthood. Decades after their negotiation, Jefferson freed all of Sally Hemings’s children – Beverly and Harriet left Monticello in the early 1820s; Madison and Eston were freed in his will and left Monticello in 1826. 
 
Also at the August 11th meeting Lee Halsted visited the meeting to drop off our Peace Pole that we are going to put into the Butterfly and Hummingbird Garden at Gallup Park.
 
Kel Keller talking about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Heming's relationship.
 
Lee Halsted gives the Peace Pole to Ann Arbor North.
 
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Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North Foundation earned for $19.99 for time period November 01, 2022-January. 31, 2023. 11 households are registered for Ann Arbor North Foundation's Kroger Community Rewards.
 
Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North Foundation is registered in the Kroger Community Rewards Program. Sign up and start making money for The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North Foundation.
 
***Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North Foundation Non-Profit Organization Account Number, is BD440.  ***
 
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Due to the COVID-19 virus, clubs locations and times may have changed. For the most current information go to clubs home page.
 
Ann Arbor   Ann Arbor:
Wednesday, 12:00 p.m., Michigan Union 530 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
 
Ann Arbor North   Ann Arbor North: 
Second & Fourth Thursday's, 12:00 p.m., University Living of Ann Arbor, 2865 South Main Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48103, In person and Zoom meeting is available.
 
Ann Arbor West   Ann Arbor West:
First & Third Monday's, 5:30 p.m., Absolute Title
 
Chelsea   Chelsea: 
Tuesday, 12:15 p.m., The Common Grill Restaurant
 
Dexter    Dexter: 
Thursday, 7:30 a.m., Fillmore
 
Milan   Milan: 
First & Third Tuesdays, 12:00 p.m., Milan School District Board Room,  Second & Fourth Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m., Milan American Legion Post
 
Saline   Saline: 
Thursday, 12:00 p.m., 109 West Michigan Ave., Saline, MI 48176 
 
Ypsilanti   Ypsilanti: 
Monday, 11:45 p.m., Meets on Zoom
 
 
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Meeting Day & Time: 2nd and 4th Thursday's of the month at 12:00 pm | Meeting Address: University Living of Ann Arbor, 2865 South Main Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48103 (View Map) |
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