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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 [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting on Thursday, Nov. 2, at The Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The program’s speaker was Bob Babbage, Managing Partner, Babbage CoFounder. 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 a statewide election taking place next week and then the 2024 Regular Session of the General Assembly commencing with the new year, what better time to hear from the person labeled by the Louisville Courier-Journal as [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting on Thursday, Oct. 26, at The Campbell House, 1375 S. Broadway, Lexington, KY. The program’s speaker was  John Calipari, Head Coach Men's Basketball, the University of Kentucky. This meeting will also be on Zoom. For the Zoom link please email, Jenny@rotarylexky.org. If you would like to have lunch, please contact Jenny@rotarylexky.org to reserve your meal. “No introduction of today’s speaker is needed” is a trite and oft-used phrase.  That said, if it is ever appropriate today would be the day given the identity of today’s speaker, UK Wildcat Basketball Coach [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting on Thursday, Oct. 19, at The Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The program’s speaker was  Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron. 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. Daniel Cameron currently serves as the 51st Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Kentucky—the first African American ever elected independently to statewide office. Daniel grew up in Elizabethtown. His parents owned a coffee shop, and Daniel was active [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington  held its weekly meeting on Thursday, Oct. 12, at The Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The program’s speaker was Jeanne Clark,  6740 District Governor. 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 honored to welcome to the podium District Governor Jeanne Clarke where she will present on the topic of “How Healthy is Your Club?”. Born and raised in Pikeville, DG Clark answered her [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting on Thursday, Oct. 5, at The Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The program’s speaker is Jacqueline Coleman, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky. This meeting will also be on Zoom. For the Zoom link please email, Jenny@rotarylexky.org. If you would like to have lunch, please contact Jenny@rotarylexky.org to reserve your meal.   ​Jacqueline Coleman is a life-long Kentuckian, educator, basketball coach, writer, founder of a nonprofit and the fifty-eighth lieutenant governor of Kentucky. She is wife to Chris, mom to Evelynne, adopted mom to Emma and a bonus [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will hold its weekly meeting on Thursday, Sep. 28, at The Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The program’s speaker will be  Juli Fulks, Women's Basketball Head Coach, Transylvania University. 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. Dr. Juli Fulks Building a Championship Culture Rooted in Gratitude and Grace   Dr. Juli Fulks is entering her tenth season as the head women’s basketball coach of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will hold its weekly meeting on Thursday, Sep. 14, at The Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The program’s speakers will be Yamel Patterson-Munoz, Foundation for Latin American Culture & Arts and Miranda Brown, Casa de la Cultura. 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. Yamel Patterson-Munoz Born in the Dominican Republic, and spending some of her childhood in Puerto Rico, Yamel moved to Lexington in 2008 at 21 for [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting on Thursday, Sep. 7, at The Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The program’s speaker was Bob Quick, President & CEO, Commerce Lexington, KY. 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. Bob is the President and Chief Executive Officer for Commerce Lexington Inc., a nearly 2,000-member investor-driven chamber of commerce and economic development organization. In 2018, 2020, and 2021, Commerce Lexington was awarded a Top 20 [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting on Thursday, Aug. 24, at The Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The program’s  speaker  will be Wilfred Reilly,  Associate Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University This meeting was 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. Wilfred Reilly, is an esteemed American political scientist who brings a fresh perspective to the world of civic engagement. As an Associate Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University, Reilly [...]