Guest Speakers

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington  held its weekly meeting on Thursday, Feb. 22, at The Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The program's guest speaker was Max Blankenhorn, Territory Sales Manager, Beam Suntory. 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. Max Blankenhorn is the Territory Sales Manager for Beam Suntory, which is the third largest global supplier of premium spirits. He has been on the commercial sales team with Beam Suntory for six years and [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will hold its weekly meeting on Thursday, Feb. 8, at The Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The program will feature The Rotary Foundation. 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. ROTARY INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION DAY 2024 “Whatever Rotary may mean to us, to the world it will be known by the results it achieves,” Paul Harris, Rotary Founder Rotary Founder Paul Harris spoke the above words in 1914, nearly a [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting on Thursday, Feb. 1, at The Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The guest speaker was  Shea Brown, Deputy County Clerk, Digitze Access Project. 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. Today Rotarians are privileged to hear from Shea Brown of the Fayette County Clerk’s Office Land Records Department.  His association with that Department goes back almost twenty-four years.  He currently is a Special Projects Deputy [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting on Thursday, Jan. 25, at The Mane on Main, Stephanie Arnold, YMCA Central Kentucky, Your Only HUMAN: 5 Reflections on Exercise, Excuses, & Expectations 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. The Rotary Club of Lexington is joined today by YMCA of Central KY Marketing Manager Stephanie Arnold as she shares insights and observations about resolutions, habits, and what you have in common with the fittest, strongest person at [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting on Thursday, Jan. 11, at The Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The guest speaker was  Reuben Watson, Director of Outreach and Advancement at Sunrise Children’s Services. 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. Today we are privileged to hear from Reuben Watson, the Director of Outreach and Advancement at Sunrise Children’s Services, a non-profit providing therapeutic foster care, residential therapeutic treatments, and community-based services throughout [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington  held its weekly meeting on Thursday, Jan. 4, at The Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The guest speaker was Dr. Robert Farley, Patterson School of Diplomacy, University of Kentucky. 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. Few programs throughout the Rotary year are more eagerly an-ticipated than our annual look at the state of the world through the eyes of the experts at the University of Kentucky’s Patterson School [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will hold its weekly meeting on Thursday, Dec. 14, at The Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The program  is the Rotary Club of Lexington's Holiday Party with students from Booker T. Washington. 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. A year end  holiday message from Presdient Kim Johnson: Happy Holidays! December is a season of rituals; 31 days packed with cultural, religious, and family activities that brighten short days [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington   held its weekly meeting on Thursday, Dec. 7, at The Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The program’s speaker was Mark Summers.  Join us for his presentation " A Day that Will Live in Infamy.' 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. There are few among us who would fail to recognize President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s description of December 7, 1941 as “a date that will live in infamy.”  That [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington  held its weekly meeting on Thursday, Nov. 16, at The Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The program’s speakers were from the American Cancer Society - Beverley Stafford, Director, Estate and Gift Planning; Tom Keith, Director, Philanthropy; Jason Young, Senior Manager, Hope Lodge 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. Each year the American Cancer Society (ACS) publishes its Cancer Facts & Figures.  The following and somewhat sobering information appears [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington  held its weekly meeting on Thursday, Nov. 9, at The Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The program’s speaker was Brad Taylor, Sports Betting Expert & Author Side Hustle. 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. With the signing by Governor Andy Beshear of House Bill 551 in March of this year, Kentucky became the 38th state to legalize sports gambling, joining nearly all of our surrounding states.  Implementation will [...]