In 2022-2023, we’re addressing three tenets: enhancing kids’ education, protecting local ecosystems, and promoting a healthy economy for all. We've continued funding the Boys & Girls Club of Holland at an annual cost of $100,000, and members have traveled with our high school Interact Club to the Dominican Republic to build schools and latrines and [...]
Among the several hundred good reasons to live, work, and play in West Michigan are the “usual suspects”—the lovely, quaint towns full of shopping and dining and entertainment; the unmatched and largely unspoiled natural environment of the rivers, lake, dunes, and forests; the sophistication of the residents and the intelligence, empathy, and openness that comes [...]
Labor Day has come and gone, marking the end of the summer with that American national holiday to which many of us may not have given a lot of thought. Memorial Day and July 4th seem easier to understand, as they deal with veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice to secure our freedom and independence [...]
We entered the new Rotary Year of 2021-22 on Thursday, July 1st, guided by a new Board of Directors and our new Club President, Bob Godfrey. As outgoing President, I wanted to preview future opportunities that are ours to seize, made possible by our accomplishments over the last two years. Allow me to start with [...]
This remarkable year+ of the pandemic has forced many changes on everyone, including us in the Rotary Club. We’re still doing our regular luncheons and hosting incredible speakers, but now via Zoom. We continue to raise and invest money for great local causes, but we’ve been forced to curtail our fun public events, like last [...]
The Rotary Club of Saugatuck-Douglas (RCSD) plans to partner with the City of Saugatuck, the City of the Village of Douglas, and Saugatuck Township to offer residents a complete hazardous waste disposal service, free of charge from 9am to noon on May 1, 2021. The event will be held at the Saugatuck City Department of [...]
WEAVE is the social fabric project began with the idea that America’s social fabric is being ripped to shreds by distrust, loneliness, alienation, inequality, racism, spiritual emptiness and tribal enmity. But we also knew that there are people fighting these scourges, successfully, at the local level all across America. Weave wanted to learn what they [...]
I retired from 50 years of paychecks yesterday. Here's one of the things I learned along the way: We are most effectively blinded by that which we see most clearly. It's often our unique talents and deepest strengths that limit us more than our weaknesses. Each of us walks through life at the center of his [...]
We have just emerged from an eventful year’s most eventful week (so far). Local, State and Federal elections came off peacefully and, it seems, accurately--a great accomplishment in itself given the many pressures on voters, poll workers, and volunteers. Congratulations to the winners. Much is expected of you now. Congratulations also my fellow citizen-voters and [...]
Our deepest appreciation and thanks go to the eight Saugatuck City Council candidates who agreed to "meet the voters" on Friday, October 9th, in a candid yet civil online forum hosted by the Rotary Club of Saugatuck-Douglas. For those who could not make it, we offer this LINK to view a recording of the event. [...]
