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  LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, Jan. 9th, at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker was Alex Waldrop, President & CEO of  the National Thoroughbred  Racing Association. His presentation was titled: Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding in Central Kentucky and Beyond: Impact of Recent Events in California Alexander M. Waldrop is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) where he leads the Thoroughbred industry’s national office responsible for matters pertaining to federal legislative advocacy, racing safety and integrity, marketing and promotion of the [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, December 19th,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The  club's  program  is the ANNUAL HOLIDAY PARTY with students from Booker T. Washington.  The day was full of music, good cheer, gifts for the students and a visit from the jolly old man himself, Santa! The club has a lot to celebrate as we turn over another decade and move into 2020. WRAPPED UP IN GIVING! What, another decade gone? Just like that ten years have flown by, giving us an ideal opportunity to look back and [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, Dec. 12th ,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker is Mark W. Summers, PhD, Thomas Clark Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Summers is one of the foremost experts on U.S. presidential history and a prolific author, master storyteller and often a contributor to news sources for expert commentary on any  number of topics related to U.S. presidents. To quote Rotary Club President-Elect Jamie Schrader, “This week's meeting will be a blockbuster and guaranteed to be fascinating for all,” [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, Dec. 5th, ,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker was Lawrence Weathers, Chief of Police, Lexington Police Department. Chief Lawrence B. Weathers is a native of Lexington Kentucky. He joined the Lexington Division of Police in 1989. He has a Masters of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from Eastern Kentucky University and graduated from the University of Kentucky with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration. He began his police career as a patrol officer and has worked as a supervisor in every [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, Nov. 21st,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker was Mary Quinn K. Ramer is President of VisitLEX, where she oversees all administrative, marketing and convention activities for the destination organization. Mary Quinn brings 20 years of tourism, marketing communications, and event planning experience to VisitLEX. Prior to becoming President, Mary Quinn spent seven years as the Vice President of Marketing at the organization. During her tenure, she has overseen a successful rebranding effort and launch of the iconic blue horse brand, coordinated [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will held its weekly meeting Thursday, November 14th ,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. Our guest speaker, Eric Brooks, Curator & Site Manager, Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate,  focused  on the remarkable women of Ashland and   used them as a lens to examine the changing roles and place in American society from 1800-1920. It  served to set the stage for the commemoration of the centennial of the ratification of the 19th amendment. Rotarian Eric Brooks was born in Columbus, Ohio, and grew up in Lexington, Kentucky.  He attended Lafayette Senior [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will held its weekly meeting Thursday, Nov. 7th ,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker was Eric Pounds, Lieutenant Colonel, United States Air Force. AIR FORCE COMBAT FLYER SPEAKS OF LEADERSHIP, FLYING, AND FAMILY    In honor of the upcoming Veterans Day, our speaker today has all the trappings of a modern “air warrior.” Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Eric Pounds is a 2004 Air Force Academy graduate, with a bachelor’s in management major, elevated by an MBA from Liberty University and a master’s in counseling and leadership [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington e held its weekly meeting Thursday, October 31,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker was Alan Cutler, WLEX Sportscaster (Ret.) In 1959, when he walked into Yankee Stadium for the first time, Alan Cutler fell in love with sports.  He considers himself one lucky dude for spending a career in something he loved to do.  Like anything in life, there were ups and downs in TV and radio, but he ended up having the Number 1 rated sports talk show in three markets----Lexington, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.  And [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, Oct. 24th,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker was Dr. Eli capilouto, President, University of Kentucky. Dr. Eli Capilouto became the twelfth president of the University of Kentucky (UK) on July 1, 2011. Under his leadership, the Commonwealth's flagship and land grant research university has grown from $2.7 billion to $4.2 billion in total operations and has gained significant momentum in fulfilling its multi-faceted mission of teaching, research, service, and health care. President Capilouto has led a seven-year, $2.4 billion transformation of the campus, [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, October 17,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker was John Cheves. John Cheves is an investigative projects reporter for the Lexington Herald-Leader. John joined the Herald-Leader as a courthouse reporter in 1997 and later worked in its state capital bureau in Frankfort and its Washington bureau. His recent projects include stories about deaths and injuries in Kentucky's under-staffed, low-rated nursing homes; law enforcement's failure to charge adults after children are killed and wounded by loaded guns left accessible in their homes; and [...]