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LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its virtual weekly meeting Thursday, June 18th,  via Zoom. For an invitation to the Zoom meeting please contact trafton@rotarylexky.org. The program’s guest speaker was Michael Halligan, CEO, God's Pantry Food Bank. “Food insecurity,” that is, being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food, is not something that most of us have ever experienced or even worried about.  It’s something that happens to the homeless or those on very low wages.  And, while that may have been true before the middle of March, since then people who never expected [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, June 11th, at 12:15 pm,  virtually via Zoom. To view the meeting please go to our YouTube link. The program’s guest speaker was Linda Gorton, Mayor, Lexington -Fayette County Government. Linda Gorton, the longest-serving member of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council, is serving her first term as Lexington’s mayor. She was elected in a landslide on November 6, 2018, winning sixty-three percent of the vote. A native of Ohio, Mayor Gorton has lived in Lexington most of her adult life. In addition to her sixteen years on the Council, including four years as vice mayor, [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its virtual weekly meeting Thursday, June 4th via Zoom. To view the meeting please go to our YouTube link.    The program’s guest speaker was Paul Wagner, executive director for Black in Blue. When President-Elect Jamie Schrader invited Paul Wagner to speak about his latest documentary, Black in Blue, Jamie had no idea that some of the issues raised in that film would be on the front page of America’s newspapers, on the evening news, and all over social media this week.  As we struggle to address the unfinished business of race [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its virtual weekly meeting Thursday, May 28th via Zoom. For an invitation email trafton@rotarylexky.org.     The program’s guest speaker is Lark Doley, Immediate Past International President, Toastmasters International. Lark Doley, DTM , of Jonestown, Texas, is a senior training coordinator for MAXIMUS, where she has worked since 2007. She manages the professional development strategy for the MAXIMUS Texas Project, which includes webinars, computer-based training and instructor-led workshops. As chief executive of Second Wave, Inc., a company she founded in 1987, Doley led a team that manufactured hardware peripheral devices for Apple Macintosh [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will hold its weekly  virtual meeting Thursday, May 21, 2020 via Zoom. The program’s guest speaker is Richard Kaglic. He the vice president and senior regional officer of the Cincinnati Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. He manages the Bank's relationships with the Cincinnati Branch's board of directors and business advisory councils in Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, and Lexington, Kentucky, and serves as the Bank's regional economist in Cincinnati.  Mr. Kaglic joined the Federal Reserve System in 1994 as a senior business economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, where [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held  its weekly  virtual meeting Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 12:15  via Zoom. Email Peggy Trafton, trafton@rotarylexky.org, for a Zoom invite. The program’s guest speaker was Richard Kaglic. He the vice president and senior regional officer of the Cincinnati Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. He manages the Bank's relationships with the Cincinnati Branch's board of directors and business advisory councils in Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, and Lexington, Kentucky, and serves as the Bank's regional economist in Cincinnati.  Mr. Kaglic joined the Federal Reserve System in 1994 as a senior business [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its virtual weekly meeting Thursday, May 14th,   The program was The Rotary Club of Lexington's Annual Scholarship Day Program.        International and the Rotary Club of Lexington believe in education, at all levels, as a powerful means to change lives.  We invest in the future by awarding scholarships each year to students who are already making a difference in our community and have the potential to change the world. The Rotary Club of Lexington started its Scholarship Program in 1960 and has provided scholarship awards to high school seniors and [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting  in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Louisville virtually on Thursday, May 7th.  The program’s guest speaker was  Governor Andy Beshear. Andy Beshear grew up in Fayette, Franklin, and Clark counties and graduated from Henry Clay High School. He is the son of Steve and Jane Beshear, the 61st Governor and first lady. Along the way, they instilled in Andy the teachings of Andy’s grandfather, a Baptist minister from Dawson Springs, Kentucky, including the values of family, faith, and public service. Andy graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University [...]

  BE A MEMBER OF THE BIRTHDAY CLUB! For the past 23 years Rotarian's have supported the Lexington Rotary Endowment Fund's BIRTHDAY CLUB by contributing $1 for every year of their age. This has become a tradition for most members as a way to celebrate their birthday! The Birthday Club has been one of the most successful programs that supports our club's endowment raising over $380,000! Please consider donating "your age" to be included in the annual Birthday Celebration! The recognition will be NEW this year including ALL who contribute!!!  Don't be left out! If you give a minimum $125 you [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting  virtually Thursday, April 30th.  Our Guest speaker was Aaron Thompson, President, Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education. Dr. Aaron Thompson is a passionate advocate for higher education. As a first-generation college student from rural Clay County, Kentucky, he experienced first-hand the transformative power of a college credential. As president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), he works to ensure all Kentuckians have an equal opportunity to improve their lives through postsecondary education. Before taking the helm of CPE, Thompson served as interim president of Kentucky State University and [...]