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LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, November 17,  at the Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St. The program’s guest speaker was Georgia Green Stamper, Kentucy Author. This meeting will also be on Zoom. For the Zoom link please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org. I’ve come to believe that love, like light, keeps moving through time and space long after it leaves its point of origin.”  Georgia Green Stamper in Small Acreages  Georgia Green Stamper is a seventh generation Kentuckian who grew up on an Owen County tobacco farm that has belonged to one member or another of [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington  held its weekly meeting Thursday, November 10,  at the Mane on Main, Chase Bank building on Main St.  The program’s guest speaker was Lt. Col. Steve Martin, 751st Battalion Commander, Kentucky Army National Guard. This meeting will also be on Zoom. For the Zoom link please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org. Title of LTC Martin's Presentation: Your Kentucky Guard’s call to action, both at home and abroad. Lt. Col. Steve Martin is a native of Versailles, Ky. He’s married to Nicole Martin and currently live in Versailles. They have two children in high school Elijah and [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington   held its weekly meeting Thursday, November 3,  LexArts, Mill Street, Lexington, KY.  The program’s guest speaker was Allison Lankford , Executive Director, Town Branch Park and Ann Bakhaus, Board Chair. This meeting will also be on Zoom. For the Zoom link please email, trafton@rotarylexky.org. “They paved paradise to put up a parking lot” lamented singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell in her 1970 song “Big Yellow Taxi”.  Fifty years later that heartfelt lyric has been turned on its head as Lexington moves forward with the Town Branch Park Project (the “Park”) in the heart of downtown.  [...]

The Rotary Club of Lexington  held its weekly meeting Thursday, October 27, at The Mane on Main and on Zoom. The program featured  Vince Marrow, Assistant Football Coach, University of Kentucky If you would like the Zoom link contact the Rotary office, trafton@rotarylexky.org. Vince Marrow joined UK head coach Mark Stoops’ staff in 2012 as the tight ends coach, recruiting coordinator and the NFL liaison. In February of 2019, he was elevated to associate head coach.  Of all the hats (helmets?) he wears in his support of the UK football program’s recent resurgence, perhaps none is more important than the one labeled [...]

The Rotary Club of Lexington will hold its weekly meeting Thursday, October 20, at The Mane on Main and on Zoom. The program  will feature  Seema Sachdeva, District 6740 Governor. Her presentation will be "Imagine Rotary District 6740." If you would like the Zoom link contact the Rotary office, trafton@rotarylexky.org. Seema Sachdeva MD, FAAP, is a practicing pediatrician with specialty training in pediatric emergency medicine. She completed her pediatric residency at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, NJ and a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship from NYU Medical Center, Bellevue Hospital, NY in 1994. She has been serving the pediatric needs of children in [...]

The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, October 13th, at The Mane on Main and on Zoom. The program  highlighted the good works of the Lexington Rotary Endowment Fund. If you would like the Zoom link contact the Rotary office, trafton@rotarylexky.org. Mission Statement The Lexington Rotary Club Endowment, Inc.’s primary mission is to assist in the partial funding and implementation of the philanthropic activities of the Rotary Club of Lexington, Kentucky, Inc. without regard to race, creed, color, sex, nationality or age.  The Endowment will establish reasonable policies to receive, prudently manage, and disburse funds in support of the [...]

The Rotary Club of Lexington  held its weekly meeting Thursday, October 6th, at The Central Bank Convention Center and on Zoom. The program  featured John Calipari, Head Coach, Men's Basketball, University of Kentucky If you would like the Zoom link contact the Rotary office, trafton@rotarylexky.org. “No introduction of today’s speaker is needed” is a trite and oft-used phrase.  That said, if it is ever appropriately today would be the day given the identity of today’s speaker, UK Wildcat Basketball Coach John Calipari. A “players-first” coach with a penchant for helping people reach their dreams, John Calipari, has guided six teams to the [...]

The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, September 22, at The Mane on Main and on Zoom. The program featured David O'Neill, Property Valuation Administrator,  Fayette County, Kentucky. If you would like the Zoom link contact the Rotary office, trafton@rotarylexky.org. David O’Neill was appointed Fayette County Property Valuation Administrator by Governor Steve Beshear on February 11, 2009 and elected to full four-year terms in 2010, 2014 and 2018. Prior to his appointment, David’s entire career was spent in the Thoroughbred horse racing industry, most of which in management at The Jockey Club and Equibase Company – racing’s official database [...]

The Rotary Club of Lexington will hold its weekly meeting Thursday, September 15th, at The Mane on Main and on Zoom. The program will feature Jason Wells, Chief, Lexington Fire Department. If you would like the Zoom link contact the Rotary office, trafton@rotarylexky.org. As these words are written on September 11, 2022, we are remembering the events of September 11, 2001, when hijackers crashed planes into the north and south towers of the World Trade Center, leading to the deadliest day in history for U. S. firefighters.  343 New York City firefighters, along with 23 police officers and 37 Port Authority officers [...]

The Rotary Club of Lexington  held its weekly meeting Thursday, September 8, at The Mane on Main and on Zoom. The program featured Monica Conrad, Director, Parks and Recreation, Lexington Fayette County Urban Government If you would like the Zoom link contact the Rotary office, trafton@rotarylexky.org. Monica Conrad is Director of Parks & Recreation for Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government. She manages more than 100 parks ranging from small urban parks to destination parks with hundreds of acres along with recreational programming, special events and new park initiatives.  She works with a team of parks employees, citizens, council members and government leaders to [...]