President Ron Lichtle opened the virtual meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance, then we recited the modified Four Way Test. Virtual lunch was served.
Shirley Gofrank gave the Invocation.
ATTENDANCE
There were 34 Rotarians present, and 1 guest, Joe Abro. Welcome Joe!
15th HANDSHAKE
President Ron announced to the club David Archbold earned the 15th logon (handshake) this week, enjoy the week without fines David!
There were many virtual happy bucks given during the meeting, here is a sampling:
From Tim Duncan to Everyone: 12:14 PM
Happy to go to breakfast this morning with my parents, outside at Downtown Café.
From Ray Doerr to Everyone: 12:14 PM
Shirley, Thank you for the nice pray.
From Shirley to Everyone: 12:14 PM
Please find me $20 for August Vince.
From lindameastman to Everyone: 12:14 PM
I am happy that my daughter and her family came up from Texas and stayed with us for five weeks.
From Jeff Fosnaugh to Everyone: 12:15 PM
Tim Duncan's Oakland Animal Hospital provided professional service when no other vets would take a new puppy during the shutdown. Thank you, Tim!
From renee cortright to Everyone: 12:16 PM
Happy to be offering outdoor programs and services for the seniors in the Rochester area!
Roger Byrd has decided to keep the Rotarian of the Week award for another week. Congrats Roger!
Ron let us know again that the new dedication of the project will take place in Spring 2021 and that our meeting at Rotary Park next week has been cancelled/postponed.
BIRTHDAYS AND CLUB ANNIVERSARIES
We had 1 birthday this week! Happy Birthday to Preston Pelham. Happy Birthday!
We had four club anniversaries, Pete Duhamel at over 54 years! Kathy Losinski has been a member for 2 years! Ted Romel has been a member for 51 years! Al Smith has been a member for 2 years! Congratulations on your anniversaries!
SHERIFF'S REPORT
Peter raised $285 in fines!
Our speaker was David Dulio. David works as a Director of the Center for Civic Engagement at Oakland University. He gave our club an overview of the Center for Civic Engagement and some statistics on the current state of politics in the United States. Thank you so much for your presentation David, great information!
If you are interested in viewing today's presentation, and the entire meeting, please click the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZWDcbpfKWM
https://www.oakgov.com/covid/dashboard.html
https://rotarymasks.weebly.com/
Yes, this is a challenging time. But, we are Rotarians, we will rise to the challenge, and our resilience and power of adaptation will prevail over this. Thanks everyone, have a great week.
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