We sang happy birthday to Rachel Aviles (7/24) and Wayne Hodges (7/28).
Trevis Harrold passed the glorious trophy on to Bree Clawson for outstanding work on the Club’s social media posts.
David Archbold was happy that our outbound exchange student, Anaya Potts, went to Taipei, Taiwan, for a three-week exchange. Fortunately, her flight was not impacted by the global tech outage! She and her Taiwanese “sister” will come to Rochester Hills on August 2
nd and speak to our club about their exchange experiences in August.
Tami Salisbury and a few other Rotarians enjoyed the Rochester Community Schools Summer Music Theatre’s Beauty and the Beast performance. The production had all the razzle-dazzle of Broadway!
Bob Lytle is looking forward to a family weekend on Mackinaw Island, where he hopes to see the Rochester Grangers Vintage Base Ball Club triumph over the Fort Mackinaw Never Sweats vintage team. Bob, is that an old-timey way of spelling baseball?
CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS
Ernie Schaefer put out a last call for the Summer Social at Frank Rewold & Son’s office on Thursday, the 25th. So far, over 40 Rotarians and guests will attend. Last-minute tickets will be sold at the door for $30 per person.
The Rotary Board approved our club application to Rotary International’s Open World Program. The Club will partner with another Detroit area Rotary Club to host six people for eight days. We hope to get a group interested in libraries as Christine is putting the program together and is confident she can develop the 32 hours of required programming. We will be looking for six Rotarians to host the visitors in February. The trip will focus on showing the international guests our club, town, and cultural opportunities. If you want to help with this visit, contact Christine.
Tom Neveau is looking for members to help sort through club history items. The items will be donated to the Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm. The task can be completed in a couple of hours, and three dates are being considered: August 1st, August 2nd, or August 6th. Please respond to Tom’s forthcoming email if you can help.
Seventy years ago, on September 15th, Dr. Edgar Geist signed our Club Charter with Rotary International, and the Rochester Rotary Club came into existence. The Club Board will invite the community to a free ice cream social on
Sunday, September 15, 2024, in Rotary Gateway Park from 3 - 5 p.m. If you are interested in helping plan this event with our Social Committee, please see Rachel Aviles or Yolanda Udell.
The Board is drafting a club policy on fundraising at our weekly meetings for other organizations or individuals. The Board will discuss the draft policy at its August 21st meeting. Members are welcome to attend the board meetings, which are held at the Library at 5 p.m. on the third Wednesday of the month.
SONG LEADER
Bob Lytle selected two songs to highlight our speaker from DTE. Okay, the songs loosely relate to energy, but Keep Your Sunny Side Up and Wait Til the Sun Shines Nellie were fun to sing.
SHERIFF’S REPORT
Sheriff Peter Stuhlreyer reported that J. D. Vance, the Republican Vice Presidential candidate, is from Pete’s hometown of Cincinnati. All members younger than Senator Vance (39 years old) were fined a maximum of $5.
Peter admitted he didn’t want to do his morning run due to the high temperatures. Anyone else who didn’t want to run is fined $5.
The Sheriff declared today French Fines Day. If you have had French fries, French toast, or poutine (French fries smothered in cheese curds and gravy) this week, own a French-made car (Stellantis vehicles), or any car for that matter, you were asked to cough up $5.
$170 was raised today, and all fines support our scholarship program.
SPEAKER
Whitley Young, with the DTE Community Affairs Team, spoke today on DTE’s commitment to reducing power outages by 30% and cutting outage durations in half by 2029. Their 20-year CleanVision proposal
- Generates reliable electricity through a balanced and diverse mix of cleaner energy sources
- Achieves 85% CO2 emission reductions by 2035 for DTE Electric through accelerated coal plant retirements while supporting Michigan’s economy-wide reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in a way that surpasses the state’s interim timelines
- Proposes enough Michigan-made solar and wind energy to power about 4 million homes
- Invests $9 billion into Michigan's economy over the next ten years, supporting more than 25,000 jobs
- Reduces the cost of the clean energy transition by a projected $1.4 billion
DTE focuses on tree trimming, transforming to a smart grid, rebuilding significant portions of the existing grid, and updating infrastructure. DTE's website has a power improvement map.
