Fellow Rotarians, The nominating committee met today and it is with great pleasure that I can announce the selection of Assistant Governor Barry Fraser of the Chatham Rotary Club as our District Governor Nominee Designate (DGND). Once ratified at the District Conference, Barry will become our DGN this July 1st, serve as DGE beginning July 1, 2016 and serve as District 6380 District Governor for the 2017-18 Rotary Year. Congratulations Barry.
"Coach" Don Riddell Governor 2014-15 District 6380
Past District Governor 2012-13 Troy Rotary Club
The Butterfly Garden may be covered under a couple feet of snow, but we wanted to remind you that Spring is just 45 days away. We thank Rotarian Manish Mehta for stopping by to pay his respects to our garden on a cold and snowy day. We need everyone to consider donating some time to the care and maintenance of our Garden this year. Our community needs to see Rotary in Action and a good, sunny Saturday morning spent at Gallup Park in the company of a few good people is a great way to increase our visibility.
At our last board meeting, we discussed offering an annual stipend to a local group to coordinate additional volunteer days in the garden, just like the day with Emerson School high school students that the Good Thyme Garden Club put together. The amount of the stipend and the actual agreement with a local group (hint: for a Good Thyme call...) has yet to be determined and we are seeking volunteers to deliberate this via committee. If you have an interest in the Garden, please consider donating an hour or two to contemplate the future plans for our signature event. We would like to continue this discussion at our February 17 board meeting and will keep you posted on future developments.
Are you ready? The first annual Phil Zepeda Invitational Golf Tournament (May 30) is only 122 days away! The first organizational meeting will take place on Wednesday, February 4 at 6:00 pm at the Applebee's on Green Road. Remember, that volunteers like to DO things, so invite a potential Rotarian to join the committee and plan the event! So that we may plan for your attendance, please email matt.copeland@comcast.net. Golfers, non-golfers, stand-up comedians, people who like to drink and Rotarians are welcome.
New to this year's Lost in Space FUNdraiser on March 28th, a Pick Your Prize raffle will replace the Silent Auction. In this fundraiser we will have a table of donated items and it will look quite similar to a Silent Auction table. The difference? Instead of bidding on a specific item, guests can purchase Pick Your Prize tickets and participate in a number of smaller raffles with a chance of winning prizes.
How it works: If we have 50 prizes on our table, there will be a small box or bag next to each item and a raffle is held for 50 items. Guests have the option of increasing their chances of winning by putting several tickets in the raffle of their choice or they can enter into all 50 raffles. Pick Your Prize raffles generate about 33% more revenue than the traditional Silent Auction and are less labor-intensive. Volunteers are freed from the sometimes stressful task of closing the auction table and we all avoid the end-of-evening close, waiting for bidders to come forward to pay for their items or tracking the winners down after the event.
At a pre-determined time in the evening program, raffle tickets will be drawn for each prize and winners will be posted so that the lucky winners can collect their gifts. Tickets for the Pick Your Prize raffle will only be sold at the FUNdraiser and winners must be present to win.
How you can help: We are asking you to solicit items from your friends, family, vendors and businesses you patronize. Raffle request letters are available by emailing tamra.ward1@gmail.com and also at our weekly meetings. We are also looking for volunteers to set up the table and help collect donations.
Thanks to all who attended Tuesday evening's first organizational meeting for our Lost in Space FUNdraiser. The party is just 60 days away - the countdown is on! The committee meets again on Monday, February 9 at 6:00 pm at the Applebee's on Green Road. Please remember that we're opening up the committee to friends and family who like to plan parties. So that I can plan for your attendance, please email tamra.ward1@gmail.com
Which one of you is satisfied with the way your Membership efforts are going?
We all can use a refresher of how to approach attracting and engaging new members to our Clubs and we have the experts lined up to help you do just that
Rotary District 6380 is proud to present a membership summit titled, Things That Work on Saturday, February 28, 2015.
Learn from other clubs as we discover “things that work” in attracting and engaging new members. This event will be packed with dynamic speakers, valuable breakout sessions, small group discussion to assure good takeaways and just good fun. You’ll also make some new friends that will help you in Rotary and in business.
We will gather at Walsh College, 3838 Livernois, between Big Beaver Rd. and Wattles Rd. in Troy from 8:30am through Lunch. Cost is $20 per person which includes the Continental Breakfast and Box Lunch. Register online and pay either online or at the door.
You won't believe how much you'll take home in just a half a day...below is the tentative Agenda.
8:30-9 – Breakfast & Fellowship
9-9:10 – Greeting Jim Gilmore
9:10-9:30 – Importance of Good Membership Processes PDG Bob Vincent (Asst Rotary Coordinator, Zone29)
9:30-10 – Membership Magic Nick Krayacich, (PP of Lasalle Centennial RC, Essex County, Ontario, CA)
10:10-11 – Breakouts
Recruiting Younger Members
Diversity in Race & Gender
Mentoring Programs
Making Membership Special
Meetings, Meals or Gatherings
11:05-Noon – Discussion Groups – The Take Aways PDG Bob Vincent
As managers again this year of the visit of the wonderful little blue raffle tickets Don and I are happy to announce that the lovely little blue tickets have arrived! We will be dropping them off for their annual visit as we see you at our Rotary meetings. If you need to have special arrangements for their visit please let Don or I know either by phone, email, or any other means of communication you may have.
I have noticed that several of you are taking advantage of social media to help our visitors enjoy their stay by helping them visit everyone you can. Great Idea! Please use all means (social or otherwise) available to you to help our friends get to visit as many of your family, friends, acquaintances, and new friends to be.
If you have any questions or would like to have more of the little lovelies to visit with please call, write, text, email ( I think you get the picture) Don or I and we will be happy to help you any way we can.
STARDATE 28 MARCH 2015: You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You are about to boldly go where no Rotarian has gone before - to Space, the final frontier.
Yeah, I mixed up about five different television shows there but the end result is the same: you are invited to embrace your inner nerd, climb into your space cadet uniform and get LOST IN SPACE at our annual FUNdraiser on Saturday, March 28, 2015.
Full details will be released shortly but PLEASE mark your calendars, save the date and invite your friends and family to join us for this year's wild and crazy night of fun and fellowship.
We're pleased to announce that the First Annual Phil Zepeda Invitational will take place on Saturday, May 30, 9:00 am at the Washtenaw Course at the Polo Fields in Ypsilanti. That's only 214 days away! Thanks to Chairs Matt Copeland and Keith Krings for chairing this event which promises to be a day full of fun, fellowship and an exciting new fundraiser for our club.
Club Information
Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North
Service Above Self
We meet Thursdays at 12:00 PM
Holiday Inn, North Campus
3600 Plymouth Road
Ann Arbor,
MI 48105 United States
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