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LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington  held its weekly meeting Thursday, January 19th, at the Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The program’s guest speaker was  Kyra Elzy , Head Coach, Women's Basketball, University of Kentucky. This meeting was also be on Zoom. For the Zoom link please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org. If you would like to have lunch, please contact Jenny@rotarylexky.org to reserve your meal. Kyra Elzy, an Oldham County, Kentucky, native, has spent more than a decade building the Kentucky women’s basketball program into a national power. For eight seasons she served as an assistant coach [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, January 12th, at the Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The program’s guest speaker was   Christopher Roty, President, Baptist Health Lexington. This meeting was also be on Zoom. For the Zoom link please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org. If you would like to have lunch, please contact Jenny@rotarylexky.org to reserve your meal. Christopher M. Roty, FACHE, is president of Baptist Health Lexington, a 434-bed hospital that is part of Baptist Health, a Louisville-based healthcare system with more than 23,000 employees across Kentucky and southern Indiana. He was named [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, January 5th, at the Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The program’s guest speaker was  Dr. Steven Stack, Commissioner of Public Health, Commonwealth of Kentucky. This meeting was also be on Zoom. For the Zoom link please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org. If you would like to have lunch, please contact Jenny@rotarylexky.org to reserve your meal. It is perhaps not necessarily a good thing when the Commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Public Health is somewhat of a celebrity.  However, that is the situation today’s speaker, Steven J. [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will hold its weekly meeting Thursday, December 15th,  at the Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The program is the Annual Holiday Party for students from Booker T. Washington elementary. This meeting will also be on Zoom. For the Zoom link please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org. If you would like to have lunch, please contact Jenny@rotarylexky.org to reserve your meal. Join us as we close out the year bringing the joy of the holidays to some very special children in our community! A Holiday Message from President Winn Stephens: Happy Holidays! This [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, December 1,  at the Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The program’s guest speaker was  Rocky Adkins, Senior Advisor to Governor Andy Beshear, Commonwealth of Kentucky This meeting was also be on Zoom. For the Zoom link please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org. If you would like to have lunch, please contact Jenny@rotarylexky.org to reserve your meal. Rocky Adkins is a well-known name in Kentucky. Hailing from Sandy Hook, Rocky began his career in the public eye as a starting point guard for the Morehead State Eagles. While [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, November 17,  at the Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The program’s guest speaker was Georgia Green Stamper, Kentucy Author. This meeting will also be on Zoom. For the Zoom link please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org. I’ve come to believe that love, like light, keeps moving through time and space long after it leaves its point of origin.”  Georgia Green Stamper in Small Acreages  Georgia Green Stamper is a seventh generation Kentuckian who grew up on an Owen County tobacco farm that has belonged to one member or another of [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington  held its weekly meeting Thursday, November 10,  at the Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St.  The program’s guest speaker was Lt. Col. Steve Martin, 751st Battalion Commander, Kentucky Army National Guard. This meeting will also be on Zoom. For the Zoom link please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org. Title of LTC Martin's Presentation: Your Kentucky Guard’s call to action, both at home and abroad. Lt. Col. Steve Martin is a native of Versailles, Ky. He’s married to Nicole Martin and currently live in Versailles. They have two children in high school Elijah and [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington   held its weekly meeting Thursday, November 3,  LexArts, Mill Street, Lexington, KY.  The program’s guest speaker was Allison Lankford , Executive Director, Town Branch Park and Ann Bakhaus, Board Chair. This meeting will also be on Zoom. For the Zoom link please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org. “They paved paradise to put up a parking lot” lamented singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell in her 1970 song “Big Yellow Taxi”.  Fifty years later that heartfelt lyric has been turned on its head as Lexington moves forward with the Town Branch Park Project (the “Park”) in the heart of downtown.  [...]

The Rotary Club of Lexington  held its weekly meeting Thursday, October 27, at The Mane on Main and on Zoom. The program featured  Vince Marrow, Assistant Football Coach, University of Kentucky If you would like the Zoom link contact the Rotary office, trafton@rotarylexky.org. Vince Marrow joined UK head coach Mark Stoops’ staff in 2012 as the tight ends coach, recruiting coordinator and the NFL liaison. In February of 2019, he was elevated to associate head coach.  Of all the hats (helmets?) he wears in his support of the UK football program’s recent resurgence, perhaps none is more important than the one labeled [...]

The Rotary Club of Lexington will hold its weekly meeting Thursday, October 20, at The Mane on Main and on Zoom. The program  will feature  Seema Sachdeva, District 6740 Governor. Her presentation will be "Imagine Rotary District 6740." If you would like the Zoom link contact the Rotary office, trafton@rotarylexky.org. Seema Sachdeva MD, FAAP, is a practicing pediatrician with specialty training in pediatric emergency medicine. She completed her pediatric residency at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, NJ and a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship from NYU Medical Center, Bellevue Hospital, NY in 1994. She has been serving the pediatric needs of children in [...]