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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 [...]

Tom Eblen Lexington, Ky., on Jan. 7, 2016. LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly virtual meeting Thursday, April 23rd,   The program’s guest speaker was Tom Eblen. Tom Eblen is a writer and photographer based in Lexington, Kentucky. He was metro/state columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader from 2008 to 2019 and the newspaper’s managing editor from 1998-2008. He now works part-time for the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning, creating projects to promote the state’s literary arts culture and managing the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame. Eblen, 61, returned to his hometown in 1998 after [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington e held its  virtual weekly meeting Thursday, April 16th,  from the Rotary office! This week's program: It's Time to Cook! Gwyn  and Ren Everly, of J Render’s Southern Table and Bar, were e in the kitchen with a great menu and practical advice on cooking from home. The story behind J Render's Southern Table and Bar: To be honest, Ren and I are accidental restaurant owners.  We have no formal training and it was not our life's goal to own a restaurant, but alas here we are and in a Pandemic no less.  [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will held its weekly virtual meeting Thursday, April 9th, at 12:15 p.m. Guest speaker was Jack "Goose" Givens. Every year Spring emerges in Kentucky as temperatures warm and the days become sunnier, trees and flowers are in bloom and the grass becomes a lush green carpet.   The calendar that many of us follow in Kentucky is also directly intertwined with sports- we know Spring arrives when March Madness begins and UK advances in the NCAA followed and Keeneland is just around the corner.  For instance,  did you know that tonight UK should have [...]