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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 [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will held its weekly meeting Thursday, July 15th,  at the Red Mile and via Zoom. The program  featured Eric Gregory, President, Kentucky Distillers' Association. To attend via Zoom  please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org. To register for lunch click here  Weekly Meetings Eric Gregory, President of the Kentucky Distillers’ Association, is a veteran communicator with more than 30 years of experience in governmental affairs, marketing, journalism and strategic public relations. As KDA President, Gregory oversees all aspects of the 141-year-old association that unites, promotes, protects and elevates the Commonwealth’s signature Bourbon and distilled spirits industry, including [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will hold its weekly meeting Thursday, July 8,  at the Red Mile and via Zoom. The program  is the annual installation of officers and directors. To attend via Zoom  please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org. To register for the in person meeting and pre pay lunch click here  Weekly Meetings Bill Wilson. Rotary Club of Lexington.  This week’s meeting brings the beginning of a new Rotary year, the installation of new officers and directors, and the ceremonial passing of the gavel by outgoing President Jamie Schrader to incoming President Bill Wilson.  It also brings [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will held its weekly meeting Thursday, June 24,  at the Red Mile and via Zoom. The program  was the annual Presidents Day, Jamie Schrader, will give his closing remarks and recognize those that have gone above and beyond in service to the club in 2020-21. To attend via Zoom  please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org. To register for the in person meeting and pre pay lunch click here: June Weekly Meetings President’s Message ARM IN ARM………. SIX FEET APART     Until 2020, most of us probably gave only passing consideration to the risks of a [...]