Club Assembly

Bob Carris opened our meeting with an Invocation followed by the members singing two songs, "The Great Pumpkin is Coming to Town" and "This Land is Your Land". Sharon Pommerville collected Happy Bucks. Mike Ladwig happy for Sounds of Silence on his phone since the election is over, Bob Carris happy that his eye surgery went well.  His other eye will be done next week. Pat Zucal is pleased that he will walk his daughter down the aisle on Saturday.  Congratulations, Pat !!

Our Club was pleased to have a Rotarian, Bryan Lindfors, from Charlevoix visit us. Good news for Touch a Truck, $4200 found in going through the books and will now be around $12,000 that the Interact Club will have to work with.

The Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser evaluation will take place on or around Nov 19th? at Deanna Gaffney's home (the correct  date will be sent out.) The dinner had the largest attendance at 245+ and 23+ carry-outs.  It was decided to give the Church an extra $500 since we did so well. Members reported that there was a joyfulness at the event that we didn't have before.  Some said that was due to the front table with the Interact students helping and welcoming people to the event. Things that went well were the ribbons for people to wear, aprons for the bussers, and the sponsored placemats. Placemats could be projected on the wall of the hall to give more visibility to the sponsors. The position of the speakers should be moved to a more central location to help with better hearing of the speakers.

Reverent Dave Stechholz brought up that Ted Davis (Livonia Parks & Rec Superintendent) wanted the Spaghetti dinner to be held next year at the new Senior Wellness Center. Members didn't like that idea.  Would the new Center be ready and could we use the kitchen? People know where the dinner takes place and to change location might cause confusion. President Dave will respond to Ted.

The Livonia "Merry & Bright" Christmas Parade and Tree Lighting event is on Sunday, December 8th.  Tammy Bonifield will be the contact person for the parade, we will have 7 people attend. We will have Tammy's truck pull a small float with the blow up Rotarian logo.  Meet at Frost Middle School on Stark Road.

Membership Committee (Dave Stechholz, Greg Greene, Victoria Haltom, and Mike Ladwig) announced they want to have a Volunteer Corp to get more people involved in Rotary. These people will be introduced into Rotary and help in our projects.  It was suggested that we all need to ask friends to attend our meetings.

Victoria Haltom presented a list of 50 reasons to become a Rotarian that will be rolled up and put on our "Deck the Rec" Christmas tree for people to take.  Rose Friske has begun putting lights and ribbon on our "Deck the Rec" Christmas tree.  Victoria has made numerous decorations for the tree, as well. More information to follow.

Susan Paluchniak