| Wednesday, February 8 @ 12:00pm Shannon Daniel: Operation Common Ground John Cowley & Sons Irish Pub, 33338 Grand River Ave, Farmington |
After a brief 2-year hiatus, the Farmington Memorial Day Parade is back!
The Groves Walker American Legion Post 346 and the Xemplar Club of Farmington/Farmington Hills are proud to once again sponsor the Farmington Memorial Day Parade. The parade will take place at 10:00am on Monday, May 30, 2022 on Grand River Avenue, between Orchard Lake Road and downtown Farmington. The event ends with a ceremony at Memorial Park at Grand River Avenue & Oakland Street, followed by a free community luncheon hosted at the American Legion and sponsored by Weingartz Farmington Hills and the Xemplar Club.
If you know of a non-profit or civic group that would like to march in the parade, please point them to www.memorialdayparade.us for more information.
Xemplars will meet at Plaza Vetern=inary Hospital on Mooney Street at 9:00am to hand out American flags along the parade route. Please join us as we remember and honor our heroes.
In the interest of public safety, our "Annual" golf outing was not held in 2020 or 2021. The 17th Annual Xemplar Foundation Signature Classic Golf Outing will be held on June 29, 2022. We are proceeding based on the assumption that it will be safe to gather as a group at that time. Registration will open in April at www.xemplargolf.com. Until then, stay safe!
Our guest for lunch this week was Dr. Paul LaCasse, president and CEO of Botsford Health Care since 2005. His role expanded earlier this year to include responsibilities with Beaumont Health, the new organization formed through a merger of Beaumont Health System, Oakwood Healthcare and Botsford in September 2014. Paul shared with us that he was "forever grateful for the journey that began in 1977 when I arrived at Botsford as a third-year medical student from Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Now that the former Botsford Hospital is an essential component of Beaumont Health, it is time for me to transition its leadership to a new president." He will continue to serve as Beaumont - Farmington Hills president until a successor is named through an executive search. In his new role as executive vice president of the Post-Acute Division, Paul is leading the clinical and operational areas of medical transportation, senior living centers, home services, laboratory and pathology services, specialty and retail pharmacy, joint ventures and diversified business entities.
We also received an update on the $165MM expansion of Beaumont Health System Botsford Campus. The 5project which will take up to 5 years to complete will include a new patiewnt tower with 80 beds, doubling the size of the emergency room, adding 8 surgical suites, a new power plant and parking deck and much more. Services such as emergency care, surgery and post surgical will be on "stacked" floors to improve the flow of patients between units. All of the additions and changes are designed to improve the delivery of services and outcomes for patients, insuring that our community hospital has the best services and technologies available.
Rep. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) officially announced his Senate candidacy Wednesday at the Xemplar Club, pitching himself as a champion for the middle class in a note to supporters. “Today, I am officially announcing that I am a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2014,” Peters said. He called the present time a “critical moment” for Michigan. “I’ve always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington,” Peters continued. First elected to Congress in 2008, Peters served as lottery commissioner and a state legislator before heading to Washington. The Republican field has yet to take shape. Rep. Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, is considering a bid. So is libertarian-leaning Rep. Justin Amash, who has clashed with House GOP leadership.