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The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, September 23,  at the Red Mile and via Zoom. The program  featured  Mark Whitworth, VP for Athletics, Asbury College, and Former Assistant Director Southeastern Conference. To attend via Zoom  please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org. To register for lunch click here  Weekly Meetings   Ever wanted to know what goes on behind the scenes at the Southeastern Conference (SEC)?  Well, here’s your chance to find out.  This week’s speaker, Mark Whitworth, worked at the SEC for 28 years. During his career there, Whitworth served with four commissioners, gaining experience in administration, multimedia rights, marketing, communications, [...]

The Rotary Club of Lexington will hold its weekly meeting Thursday, September 16,  at the Red Mile and via Zoom. The program  features  Eric Brooks, Curator, Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate. To attend via Zoom  please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org. To register for lunch click here  Weekly Meetings   This week club member Eric Brooks, who is also curator/site manager for Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate, will address the issue of slavery at Ashland and the way the interpretation of it has changed dramatically, especially in recent years. Specifically, Eric will highlight Ashland’s Traces: Slavery at Ashland tour and ongoing research that informs it. [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, September 9,  at The Mane on Main  and via Zoom. The program  featured Kate Savage, Arts Connect Lexington. To attend via Zoom  please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org. To register for lunch click here  Weekly Meetings   Arts Connect Lexington: Dedicated to creating more arts awareness and vitality in the community through programs, resources and meaningful engagement, and by supporting all forms of artistic expression and creative endeavors. If you’re a fan of good food, you’re probably familiar with the name of this week’s speaker, Kate Savage. Kate grew up against a [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, September 2,  at the Red Mile and via Zoom. The program  featured Steve McClain, Director of Communications and Public Affairs, Kentucky Retail Federation. To attend via Zoom  please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org. To register for lunch click here  Weekly Meetings   The COVID-19 years have made life unpredictable for retailers here and elsewhere.  To bring us to speed on what’s happening now and what to expect down the road we’re pleased to have Steve McClain as our guest speaker this week. McClain has been the director of Communications and Public Affairs [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, August 26th,  at the Red Mile and via Zoom. The program  featured Chris eddie, Co-owner, Smiley Pete Publishing. To attend via Zoom  please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org.To register for lunch click here  Weekly Meetings   Smiley Pete Publishing began as a single community publication in 1997. College buddies Chris Eddie and Chuck Creacy started Chevy Chaser Magazine while working as pizza delivery drivers. They got to know Lexington’s neighborhoods, and began hand-delivering magazines to local residents. Since then, Smiley Pete Publishing has become a growing family of print and online publications [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington  held its weekly meeting Thursday, August 19th,  at the Red Mile and via Zoom. The program  featured Mark Stoops, Head Coach, University of Kentucky Football. To attend via Zoom  please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org. To register for lunch click here  Weekly Meetings When Mark Stoops was asked   how he could continue success  , the coach replied, “We didn’t come here to build a team.  We came here to build a program.” It appears that Stoops is doing exactly that. When the Kentucky football team took the field for the 2021 TaxSlayer Gator Bowl, it made [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, August 12th,  at the Red Mile and via Zoom. The program  featured Chad Needham, Owner, Needham Properties. To attend via Zoom  please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org. To register for lunch click here  Weekly Meetings “When Chad Needham moved back to Lexington after a few years away working in corporate marketing, he started a pizza company. Then he recognized another business opportunity all around him.       He noticed that older neighborhoods he had become familiar with while attending Bryan Station High School and Transylvania University were changing, and for the better. [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, August 5,  at the Red Mile and via Zoom. The program  featured David Helmers, Producer, Railbird Festival. To attend via Zoom  please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org. To register for lunch click here  Weekly Meetings An entrepreneur and business owner, David has founded and co-founded several companies in areas as wide-ranging as technology, real estate development, and the music industry. In 2019, David brought dozens of top national musical performers and over 30,000 fans together for the Railbird Music Festival held on the Grounds of Keeneland Race Track in Lexington, KY. Railbird [...]

The Rotary Club of Lexington has a new agenda in 2021-2022  for the FIFTH THRUSDAY'S in a month! We'll not be holding our usual weekly noon lunch meeting at the Red Mile. We'll take the opportunity to explore networking/social time, new venues, or service projects. This Thursday, July 29th we'll be hosting a networking event at Goodwood Brewpub, Lexington Green Circle, Lexington, KY 40503. According to last week’s speaker, Dr. Brien Lewis, Ben Franklin once said, “When you’re finished changing, you’re finished” and Lewis then outlined some of the changes that have been taking place at Transylvania University. Our new club [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Noon, Thursday, July 22,  at Transylvania University at   300 N. Broadway   and via Zoom. The program  featured President Lewis and was  held at the new W. T. Young Center . To attend via Zoom  please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org. To register  to attend  click here  Weekly Meetings Transylvania means “across the woods.” This week we will be taking a trip across Lexington to visit Transylvania University (“Transy”), America’s 18th oldest institution of higher education. Transy, founded in 1780, precedes both the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the city of Lexington. Among its notable [...]