We really represented in this year’s Dearborn Memorial Day Parade with several Rosies and WWII Veterans and the fabulous ARRA Rosie the Riveter Drill Team. Driver Lee Jacobson’s Cadillac convertible showcased the Rosies!

We dedicated 6 more rosebushes in the Rosie the Riveter Rose garden at Westland Historic Village Park at a Ceremony and Tea at the beautiful Octagon house!

We enjoyed a day in Northville with tea and a presentation on Ford’s Willow Run Bomber Plant by friend and presenter Claire Dahl.

Our group’s Jeannette Gutierrez delivered and helped plant a dozen Rosie the Riveter Rosebushes to expand existing Rosie the Riveter Rose Gardens in Belleville, Westland, and Dearborn.

Our WWII Rosies and friends gathered to make cards for Veterans. We had so much fun!

We met for lunch in Milford, placed markers to honor fallen Veterans, then we rambled around picturesque Milford, MI to shop and act as Rosie Ambassadors. We met lots of curious and interested people and told them all about Rosie!

Our group celebrated our favorite day at our favorite place… National Rosie the Riveter Day at the Bomber Restaurant in Ypsilant!

Rosie the Riveter Clara Doutly, 100, was interviewed against the backdrop of the Arsenal of Democracy exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum…

Rosies enjoyed a happy holiday lunch at Hidalgo Restaurant in Belleville. Many Thanks to Osborne Concrete of Romulus for surprising the group by picking up the tab… what a wonderful Christmas gift! Singer Kelly Miller of michigansingingtelegrams.com serenaded the group.

Our group’s Jeannette Gutierrez participated in the festivities surrounding the 100th birthday of Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, WWII Tuskegee Airman. She was honored to be among those invited to the Press Reception and Rededication Ceremony for Jefferson Field in Detroit.

Clara’s Katie threw a real wing-ding of a party at the Gaelic League in Detroit for Clara’s 100th! Jeannette Gutierrez emceed a program that included the Capuchin Friars, Haile Brown from Rep. Debbie Dingell’s office, Ford Motor Company, and the Tuskegee Airmen! WDIV Detroit and the Free Press covered the event.

Our Michigan Willow Run’s Scarecrow Rosie made her appearance again this year in Downtown Wayne!

We did the Rosie of WWII proud with a fabulous Ring a Bell for Rosie celebration. Kelly Walker sang for the audience and in attendance with Rep. Debbie Dingell and Michigan’s Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist.

Once again we brought our Rosies and WWII Vets to Ypsilanti Township’s popular Rosie the Riveter Craft Show at North Bay Park. We were delighted to be joined by Angie and Linda from the Cheboygan/Emmet County ARRA Chapter!

Jeannette Gutierrez made a longtime dream of hers come true when she organized and event to reunite the B-24 Liberator bomber Diamond Lil with the women who built her, the men who flew her, and the brave Tuskegee Airmen who escorted her on missions. The wonderful folks at the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) who keep Diamond Lil flying shared the dream, and worked with Jeannette to make it happen!

Our Rosies were guests of the Yankee Air Museum at their annual Wings and Wheels gala preview night.

The Royal Oak Veterans Committee hosted our Rosies and WWII Vets in style at the Memorial Day parade. A special float was built for them by the Detroit Parade Company. The ARRA Rosie the Riveter Lunchbox Drill Team made its debut at this event.

Our group partnered with the Westland Historic Village Park to co-host Tea With Rosie! This lovely event was followed by the dedication of 6 new rosebushes in the Park’s Rosie the Riveter Rose Garden.

We organized two safe and socially distant Rosie Wave & Walk-by celebrations to honor the 100th birthdays of two local Rose the Riveters. Centenarian “Rosies” Helen Bandyke and Almyra Rourke each watched safely from her windows as we honored them with a Rosie procession and Rosie cheer, and presented them with cards and letters, and a Rosie teddy bear.