February 2023 Monthly Meeting

Possible Location Change

You may have heard that there was small fire at the Royal Oak Senior Center. This might prevent us from having our meeting there this Saturday, Februrary 4th at 10am.

Our preference is to meet at the Senior Center if that is possible. We will find out tomorrow. If we cannot meet at the Senior Center we will attempt to meet at the Royal Oak Library. If their auditorium is already booked, then our emergency backup location is Fifth Avenue, 215 W. 5th Street in downtown Royal Oak. In sum, we definitely will meet Saturday, February 4th at 10am, but we will not know where until sometime tomorrow.

Our guest speakers will be from "No Future Without Today," a group of student survivors from the Oxford school shooting.The group is pressing for gun control in our state legislature. Find out how you can help.

• Saturday, February 4th, 2023
• 10:00am (44th District Judge applicants will be available starting at 9:30am)
• (probably) Royal Oak Senior Center 3500 Marais, Royal Oak, MI 48073
• (possibly) Royal Oak Public Library, 222 E. 11 Mile Road, Royal Oak MI (inside Friend's Auditorium
• (possibly) Fifth Avenue, 215 W. 5th Street, Royal Oak MI
• To join on Zoom (note that this link is the same for every monthly meeting, it does not change): 
  • https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82260666788?pwd=V3Rma01wcXkva09NNVlLZXU3WXNmUT09
  • Meeting Id: 822 6066 6788
  • Passcode: 341691
• Please join the Facebook event to help spread the word: https://www.facebook.com/events/6124224770943659

Other meeting highlights:

• 6 persons interested in being appointed to the vacant judge position on the 44th District Court will be at the meeting starting at 9:30am. These individuals are seeking support and endorsements from club members. Please come at 9:30am if you are interested in meeting these judicial candidates. Their questionaire responses are pinned to the top of our club Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/GRODC
• Jim Ellison, our former state representative, will brief us on his new position as Chief of Older Adult Services for Oakland County.
• Winners of our club scholarship award will be announced and presented with their checks.
• We will also hear from local elected officials and candidates.

Start each meeting with a song?

We're thinking about starting each meeting with song. You may remember we had a club choir before the covid lockdown; this would be a little different, an "everyone" sing-along. Please complete this brief survey if you are interested in helping to get this started: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccZp0KGbhgT7Y5246OmXOPgzm96hzLzgBPSePytkra9SMErQ/viewform

Next Month

Join us at our March 2023 meeting where our guest speaker will be Kimber Bishop-Yanke of Kids Empowered.