At Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North's Lunch on March 1st our speaker was Sebastian Wreford from Food Gatherers Food Bank.
Sebastian said, "Food Gatherersbelieve that in a land of plenty, no one should go hungry! As the food rescue and food bank program serving Washtenaw County, Food Gatherers exists to alleviate hunger and eliminate its causes in our community."
Food Gatherers serves150 non-profit agencies and programs provide direct food assistance in the form of hot meals, nutritious snacks or emergency groceries to low-income adults, seniors and children in Washtenaw County.
Food Gatherers provides our agency partners with:
Mostly free (70%) and low cost food
Capacity building grants
Training to register eligible clients for federal and state benefit programs
Customized food safety training by licensed food safety professionals on our staff
Sabastian described, that Food Gatherers provides direct service through their Community Kitchen and Job Training Program located in the Robert J. Delonis Center in downtown Ann Arbor:
1,500 volunteers prepare and serve 100,000 meals to people in need each year
Students of the Job Training and Internship programs are chosen from at-risk youth (ages 16-20). They gain basic training in the culinary arts, and work to develop work ethics and life skills
Sabastian, encouraged Ann Arbor North as a group or as individuals to become involved as volunteers at Food Gatherers.
Last Friday was Rotaries 113th Anniversary, read this brief story on Rotary's first club.
The Rotary Club of Chicago ‑ Club No. 1 ‑ was organized on February 23, 1905, by Paul P. Harris and three Chicago businessmen. To Paul Harris belongs the credit for originating the "Rotary idea”. The first meetings were held alternately at different members' places of business. For the first few months, the growth in membership was slow. In the autumn of 1905, a great event took place in the history of the struggling club.
The first roster was printed! It contained the names of nineteen active and two honorary members. As the membership increased, other rosters were printed, and finally the illustrated roster below was suggested by Silvester Schiele.
Later, Harry Ruggles introduced "song" into Rotary. From a small nucleus of nineteen loyal members in 1905, Rotary grew in seventeen years to a strong, virile movement of 80,000 members with clubs in more than a thousand cities embracing twenty‑two countries of the world.
Greg Stejakal, a Retired FBI Agent talked at our RCAAN Luncheon on February 22, 2018.
Greg talked about the Detroit Mob in the time he was a FBI Agent.
Greg told the club on March 15, 1996, Jack Tocco and 16 alleged partnership members or associates were arrested. The government sought money for crimes, claiming that Tocco and four co-defendants were jointly and severally liable for $234,700 that had been collected in "street tax" extortions.
The government further claimed that Jack Tocco, Anthony Corrado, and Vito Giacalone, in addition to the $234,700 amount, were jointly and severally liable for $4.2 million in profits from the sale of two hotels in Las Vegas (the Frontier Hotel and the Edgewater Hotel), $1 million extorted from Sal Vitello, proceeds from the collection of unlawful gambling debts.
The district court concluded that the evidence presented by the government at trial did not provide, by a "preponderance of the evidence," a sufficiently quantified factual basis for assessing any forfeiture against the defendants.
The five defendants were charged, along with twelve other defendants, in a 25-count indictment relating to their alleged involvement in the Detroit branch of the national Mafia organization known as La Cosa Nostra.
Jack Tocco and Anthony Corrado were convicted on two counts of conspiracy under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), one based on a pattern-of-racketeering-activity and one based upon the collection-of-unlawful-debts, and on one count of a Hobbs Act conspiracy.
Paul Corrado and Nove Tocco were convicted of the RICO pattern of racketeering activity conspiracy and the Hobbs Act conspiracy. Vito Giacalone pleaded guilty to the RICO collection of unlawful debts conspiracy.
Greg, is now retired and is a Rotarian for the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor. He is currently President Elect for his club and will be President in 2018-2019.
Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North Foundation received $30.83 from 10/31/17-01/30/18.
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