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LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, Feb. 7th, at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program's guest speaker was Brian Miller, serves as President/CEO of the Bluegrass Sports Commission. He is in his fifth year of leading the organization to being one of the few self-sustaining sports commissions in the country. Brian will speak about the 2019 Barbasol Championship as well as the Bluegrass Sports Commission. Brian oversees the largest youth and amateur sports event in Kentucky, the Bluegrass State Games. To help these teams feel united as one, companies such as [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, Jan. 31, at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program's guest speakers were Kathy Scheller of MetroNet and Scott Shapiro, (former) Chief Innovation Officer, Lexington Fayette Urban County Government. They updated us on the effort to transform Lexington into a gigabit city. Kathy Scheller has over 25 years of experience in the public and private sectors with a primary emphasis on community impact and development. As a key player for MetroNet in its Governmental/External Affairs Division, Scheller is responsible not only for bringing new municipalities across [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, Jan. 24th ,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The day's program was the Annual Endowment Day.   This year’s Endowment Day will honor two incredible arts organizations as we continue to pay tribute to former Rotary Club Executive Director Nell Main.  The first organization is well known to Lexington but with a new name.  LexPhil (formerly known as the Lexington Philharmonic) is guided by an unwavering commitment to its core values of artistic excellence, innovation, collaboration and accessibility. LexPhil brings the highest level of artistry to [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will hold its weekly meeting Thursday, Jan. 21st,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker is Dr. Lee T. Todd, Jr. Lee T. Todd, Jr., became the 11th president of the University of Kentucky on July 1, 2001, and served in that capacity for 10 years.  After a one-year leave-of-absence, he will return to UK and join the Department of Electrical Engineering as a faculty member. Dr. Todd received his BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kentucky and his MS and PhD degrees from M.I.T., [...]

[embeddoc url="https://rotarylexky.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1-10-19.pdf" download="all" viewer="google"] LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will held its weekly meeting Thursday, Jan. 10th,   at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker was Brian Engle, SMSgt (ret). Brian Engle is originally from Harlan, Kentucky.  In 1967 he left college to join the US Air Force, beginning what would become a 21-year first career.  Originally classified as a computer technician, he volunteered for Vietnam, serving a 15-month ground tour, in part working with Air Force Security Police in base perimeter defense.  Returning to the US, he retrained into Strategic Air Command (SAC) [...]

[embeddoc url="https://rotarylexky.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1-10-19.pdf" download="all" viewer="google"] LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will held its weekly meeting Thursday, Jan. 3rd,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker was Carey Cavanaugh a former U.S. ambassador/peace mediator who is currently professor of diplomacy and conflict resolution at the University of Kentucky and chairman of International Alert, a London-based independent peacebuilding organization.  He had a 22-year Foreign Service career focused on conflict resolution, arms control and humanitarian issues.  In addition to assignments at the State Department, Pentagon and on Capitol Hill, Cavanaugh served at U.S. diplomatic missions in Berlin, Moscow, [...]

The Rotary Club of Lexington held its annual holiday luncheon on Thursday, December 13, at 12:00 p.m., at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road.   The week’s “speaker” was St. Nicholas himself, commonly known as Santa Claus.  Santa brought Christmas gifts from generous Rotarians to 25 special guests, children from Booker T. Washington Elementary ranging from five to eleven years old, many of them children who might otherwise not have a gift this year—or even a Christmas tree.  The children were treated to a holiday lunch of Christmas favorites like mac and cheese, chicken strips and Christmas cookies and they joined Santa’s elves [...]

Wheelhorse LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will hold its weekly meeting Thursday, December 6,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker is Renee Shaw from Kentucky Educational Television. Renee Shaw is the managing producer and face behind KET’s public affairs programs, currently serving as host of KET’s Kentucky Tonight and Connections with Renee Shaw. During sessions of the Kentucky General Assembly, she produces and hosts KET’s nightly Legislative Update.   In election season, she hosts KET’s live primary and election night coverage, and throughout the year serves as a contributing host for several other [...]

Wheelhorse LEXINGTON, KY –  After a week off for the Thanksgiving holidays, The Rotary Club of Lexington will held its weekly meeting Thursday, November 29,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speakers were P.G. Peeples and Raymond Daniels from the Urban League of Lexington-Fayette County. Porter G. Peeples, Sr., is a native of Lynch, Kentucky, where he attended public school and graduated in 1964.  He earned a B.A. in elementary and special education from the University of Kentucky and has done graduate work at Eastern Kentucky University. Peeples spent one semester as a teacher in the Fayette [...]

Wheel Horse LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, November 15,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program's guest speaker was Jeffrey C. Hall, a combat veteran of the Persian Gulf War.  Hall was appointed National Employment Director for the 1.3 million-member DAV on March 31, 2014. From the DAV National Headquarters located in Cold Spring, Kentucky, Hall oversees special employment initiatives and works with private and public sector entities to develop and build partnerships to address joblessness and underemployment as well as facilitate job fairs and lead efforts to connect veterans and [...]