Rotary Club of Saginaw

03/24/2026

We have had some awesome speakers as of late & tomorrow will be special as we hear from Saginaw's Mayor, Brenda Moore! Public is welcome to join us for our weekly meeting, at noon at the Saginaw Club, 219 N Washington, (2nd floor, use sm side entrance on the front of the building.) Only charge is if you decide to order lunch. Always great choices on our lunch menu!

07/10/2025

Yesterday a group of us toured the new ice cream shop on Hamilton St in Saginaw; Michigan Cream and Sugar. It was amazing, & the ice cream cold & delicious! They use Michigan sourced ingredients (milk from Michigan Milk Producers Assoc. & Pioneer Sugar), nothing artificial, no emulsifiers, & all ice cream is made in house, nothing pre-made & shipped in. They are dedicated to offering a high quality ice cream & some sorbets. It is a 3 day process to make a batch of all natural ice cream. My fav was the Strawberry Lemonade! Oh & that bubble cone (w/orange pineapple), so good!🍦🍨 Stop in & check them out. Michigan Cream & Sugar Ice Cream Company

05/08/2025

Yesterday the three Saginaw Rotary Clubs, including ours, joined together at the CMU College of Medicine to celebrate our newest Thanks For Staying Rotary Scholarship winner, Dr. Sydney Pauls!

In 2017 the 3 clubs joined together to form the Thanks for Staying Rotary Scholarship Endowment. Annually we fundraise to build the endowment, which currently sits at just under $300k! Our hope is to one day grow it to a point where more than one scholarship can be awarded annually.

This is a $10,000 scholarship (to be applied to student loans), to a medical student who Stays in this area to do their residency program. Studies show that these doctors typically tend to stay within 50 miles of where they complete their residency.

Todate the Endowment has paid out $90,000 in scholarships! The average indebtedness of a medical student is $250k.

The majority of these scholarship winners are in needed fields of psychiatry, family medicine, & OBGYN care. Many are serving in rural & underserved areas here in Michigan. The college has a very high retention rate of 50% of graduates staying here in Michigan to practice medicine.

The CMU College of Medicine has state of the art SIM labs, and are hailed as some of the best in the country. There are only about 170 rural type medical colleges across the country & the CMU College of Medicine ranks 17th, nationally! Must be why they had appx. 8,000 applicants for the 104 student openings this year. The majority of students filling the openings are from Michigan. This year's recipient is from West Bloomfield.

Dr. Pauls graduated with a 3.9gpa, is passionate about doing research in surgical outcomes & hopes to one day do residency education.

Congrats to Dr. Sydney Pauls on being this year's Thanks for Staying Rotary Scholarship recipient! Special thanks to Dr. Steven Vance for his vision from the beginning & hard work educating our future doctors!

If you would like to donate, just visit the CMU website, giving area & search for the Thanks for Staying Rotary Scholarship.

(Content by Cathy Tafel)

Also participating:
Saginaw Sunrise Rotary

03/31/2025

What's on my mind..FB asks..

Why it's SAGINAW ON STAGE - our 20th Annual music fundraiser brought to you by the Rotary Club of Saginaw! Enjoy great music, drinks & some snacks in a relaxed & intimate setting at the beautuful Saginaw Club, in downtown Saginaw. Music & bars on all 3 floors!!

Go to SaginawonStage.com or scan the QR CODE on the flyer for more info. Tickets available in advance or at the door!

Who's ready to have some fun this Saturday, April 5th? 👋💃🕺🎶🎵🍻
Your ticket will get you one drink ticket to start the evening! 🍸🧉🍷🍺

This year proceeds will go to helping to create a great playscape (playground), accessible to all children at Crayola Park on Fordney St. It is a $500,000 project to replace all equipment & put down a rubber surface to make it accessible to all! It will be a great space for kids to gather & play!

03/20/2025

Good morning, everybody! Today marks the release of our 46th anniversary edition of The REVIEW, so be sure to grab a copy while they last or check us out online at www.review-mag.com.

03/20/2025

01/14/2025

Our Rotary Club would like to invite you to check out Rotary! What is Rotary? What does our Rotary Club do to help in the community? And any else you may have wondered but didn't know who to ask!

This Wednesday, January 15th we will be meeting at the Saginaw Club Downtown at 12noon to bring you everything you have always wanted to know about Rotary! (2nd Floor, enter at front left side door.)

Please consider joining us for this informative meeting. Lunch is on me!* There is absolutely no obligation to join Rotary, unless you are so inspired to do so. We have a fun presentation that we think you will enjoy!

*For a free lunch, please rsvp to this post so that we know who will be attending. RSVP prior to 9am on Wednesday. Thank you!

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08/21/2024

Recently we had the pleasure to hear from our outbound Rotary Youth Exchange Student, Hunter Wiktorowski, upon his return from Baden-Wűrttemberg, Germany after 1 year of living abroad!

Hunter told us about all of his travels throughout Europe (one of his favorite aspects), using their train system to get around (it was always late but he felt safe), his schooling while there (attending language camps & gymnasium-a college prep school), & his favorite time of year in Germany - Christmas (yes, they do put lit candles on their Christmas trees!)

He said his favorite country to visit, besides Germany, was Switzerland as it was clean, beautiful & very friendly. His least favorite was France, felt it was underwhelming, dirty & not very friendly. Hunter indicated Germany is very welcoming & generally loves Americans, and he indicated Hungary was the friendliest country he visited.

Hunter loved this experience provided by our Rotary club, and the Rotarians who helped him in Germany. His ultimate goal is to reside in Europe permanently.

Congrats to you, Hunter, on this great experience & blessings to you on your future endeavors.

Photos of his trip were provided by Hunter. Rotary photos provided by member, Stephanie Reinhardt.

08/13/2024

For those who have followed the travels of Hunter Wiktorowski, our Rotary Youth Exchange Student, we want to invite you to our club's meeting tomorrow (8/14/24) at the Saginaw Club (2nd floor), 12pm. Hunter will be there to tell us all about his experience! Please join us..

05/10/2024

Our President, Judge Janet Boes was the keynote speaker for Underground Railroad today at their Advocates for Change luncheon. What a great cause to support!
(Not my photos. Thanks Laura Crase & Kathleen McGraw)