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A Special Note: As we have just moved the website, see below, bear with me as I have to import all the pictures and generally redesign the site plus do the necessary updating of the content. Any suggestions to this webguy, John Strain, please email me by clicking HERE.

Our Club was formed in 1947. The weekly meetings of the Grosse Ile Rotary Club are held at the Grosse Ile Golf & Country Club. Meetings are held every Thursday, 6:30 PM. Grosse Ile Golf & Country Club is located at the corner of Meridian and Grosse Ile Parkway. Check our link to GIGCC's Website Here Once the map launches, please click on West margin once to see how Grosse Ile ties into I-75 and the main road systems in the Downriver network. Click HERE for a PDF map to the GIG&CC.

Our club's proudest moment was the elevation of our Member and Past President to the position of Super District 6400 District Governor, Roberto Sanchez, for the Rotary Year 2004-2005. Please click here to see a photograph of Bob and his wonderful family, HERE.

Our current project is the preparation and production of the Grosse Ile Rotary Telephone Directory. From 6-1-2009, members and the project team are contacting past and prospective advertisers for inclusion in the 2010 & 2011 Directory. Additionally, correction for personal listings, new phone numbers and other changed have a common Dead Line of August 15, 2009. So time is coming for action. For more information about the Directory, including printable forms and views of our prospective cover pictures, please click HERE.

Our 7th Annual Golf Outing on June 9h at the Raisin River Golf Course - East in beautiful Monroe, Michigan was a great success. Thanks for your support. We hope to see you again next year.

The Club's Citizen of the Year for 2009 is Gregory Goyert. He also was awarded a Rotary Foundation "Fellow". Dr. Goyert will be the "Grand Marshall" of the Island Fest parade on June 6, 2009. To view the full sized pictures, just click on the small edition below.

Rotary President Ted Aller is seen with Dr. Goyert at the presentation last Thursday at the Grosse Ile Golf & Country Club.	Past President Peter Rock explains the meaning of the award to the assembled members and guests.	Past President Bill Swasey explained the committee's choice of Dr. Goyert at the awardee for 2009

June 6, 2009 was a perfect day for Grosse Ile's IslandFest parade on Macomb Street, our Township's Business District, with a clear sky and a slight breeze with the temperature about 70 degrees. Just perfect!

This year's Grosse Ile Rotary Club's Citizen of the Year was the Parade's Grand Marshall. Our awardee was Dr. Gregory Goyert. He is pictured in our "Parade Car", a 1960 Chrysler Imperial, owned and driven by our Past President Peter Rock. Besides the Doctor and Pete, pictured in the car was the Doctor's wife, Marcie Treadwell.

For detailed coverage of the IslandFest event and Dr. Goyert's role and participation, please click HERE to see the great coverage in our weekly newspaper, the Ile Camera, from 6-12-2009.

To enlarge the photographs, just left click on them to expand the picture. Use your back space to return to this page.

One of the Annual Events of the Club is the support of the Delray Neighborhood House. Besides many things like tutoring, support of their Summer Program is the Annual Christmas Party for the kids. This is sponsored and supported by the Club but implemented and and planed by the Grosse Ile High School Interact Club. The current President of the club, Kristen Dowhan, pictured here on Santa's lap, probably requesting a pony for Christmas. Also pictured is this angelic boy communicating with Santa. The pictures are the complement of PDG Jim Karoyli, also the Web Master for the Super District 6400 website and a big supporter of our event.

Kirsten is the current President of the Interact Club and has done a wonderful job of organizing the already too busy students at the Grosse Ile High School. She, with the faculty advisor, Eric Floode, one of the newest members of the GIRC, are working on successor leadership, as I type. Like with all the small pictures, just left mouse click to see an enlarged image of the pictures. Thanks again Jim, for your great camera work.

This site is managed with Microsoft Expression Designer and was last updated June 13, 2009. This Site was hosted, at no cost to the Grosse Ile Rotary Club, by Risk Management Software, Inc., Newport News, Virginia five years. RMSI perform a number of risk management technology related software applications and consulting services for banks and other financial service providers. As of April 6th, 2008, the site migrated to Dot Com Web Productions, LLC, our new webhost. It is a Grosse Ile based internet service provider. They also host the Trenton Rotary Club's site and the Roar on the River site, for the Trenton Rotary Club.

Here is a shot from June 26, 2003 Changing of the Guard, on Lake Erie, just east of Grosse Ile. It was a beautiful evening. More coming soon. I got two nice shots. Please let me know which one you like best. Click on the small pictures to see a larger edition. Additionally, the famous Grosse Ile Lighthouse is pictured plus a great aerial shot of our wonderful island. Thanks for visiting.

Flags at sunset	Another flag shot at sunset	The Grosse Ile North Channel Lighthouse	Grosse Ile from the air and the South

	Sunset Upper Hickory Island, Grosse Ile - May 22, 2008

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