2024 marked our 33rd Annual ShrimpFest and Bingo Fundraiser. This was a full-club participating event from gathering donations of Bingo prizes, silent auction items, corporate sponsorships, cooking of the shrimp, organizing desserts to set-up and clean-up. A special THANK YOU to the Shawnee Mission Northwest Interact Club for helping throughout the evening.
Bill McCollum
Welcome to Rotary Club of Lenexa; a place where service to others, community and friendships intersect!
As one of over 46,000 Rotary clubs worldwide, Lenexa Rotary strives to build upon our rich heritage to not only make a difference in our community through service oriented projects, but also devote energy and resources to present and future domestic and global problems. These include contributing to Rotary International’s efforts to eradicate Polio worldwide, provide clean water, improve sanitation and hygiene, support education, and protect the environment.
During this next 2024-2025 Rotary year, our international theme is “The Magic of Rotary!” But what’s so magical about Rotary? Some find magic through service opportunities such as the Johnson County Christmas Bureau which addresses needs within our local Johnson County community during the holidays, while others find others it by working with our local Shawnee Mission Northwest High School Interact students distributing in-home water filters in Puerto Rico. And then for others the magic resides in building strong and lasting friendships and working with professionals to address future complex problems. Many reasons exist, and we each have different answers. And while each member’s experience is awesome, viewed collectively they truly become “magic!”
We are hopeful you will consider joining us to seek the “Magic of Rotary” and imagine the possibilities. Our club meets every Friday for lunch at Lakeview Village-Southridge Building, 5th Floor Treetop Room, at 14001 W. 92th Street, Lenexa, Kansas. We design each meeting to address upcoming Rotary opportunities, feature interesting guest speakers, and opportunities to fellowship with others with the common cause of “Service above Self.” For further information, please contact our Membership Chair, River Meisinger, at river.meisinger@besmith.com. From there we will provide you more information and address your questions concerning how you can become part of the “Magic of Rotary!”
Respectfully,
Bill McCollum
President 2024-2025
As one of over 46,000 Rotary clubs worldwide, Lenexa Rotary strives to build upon our rich heritage to not only make a difference in our community through service oriented projects, but also devote energy and resources to present and future domestic and global problems. These include contributing to Rotary International’s efforts to eradicate Polio worldwide, provide clean water, improve sanitation and hygiene, support education, and protect the environment.
During this next 2024-2025 Rotary year, our international theme is “The Magic of Rotary!” But what’s so magical about Rotary? Some find magic through service opportunities such as the Johnson County Christmas Bureau which addresses needs within our local Johnson County community during the holidays, while others find others it by working with our local Shawnee Mission Northwest High School Interact students distributing in-home water filters in Puerto Rico. And then for others the magic resides in building strong and lasting friendships and working with professionals to address future complex problems. Many reasons exist, and we each have different answers. And while each member’s experience is awesome, viewed collectively they truly become “magic!”
We are hopeful you will consider joining us to seek the “Magic of Rotary” and imagine the possibilities. Our club meets every Friday for lunch at Lakeview Village-Southridge Building, 5th Floor Treetop Room, at 14001 W. 92th Street, Lenexa, Kansas. We design each meeting to address upcoming Rotary opportunities, feature interesting guest speakers, and opportunities to fellowship with others with the common cause of “Service above Self.” For further information, please contact our Membership Chair, River Meisinger, at river.meisinger@besmith.com. From there we will provide you more information and address your questions concerning how you can become part of the “Magic of Rotary!”
Respectfully,
Bill McCollum
President 2024-2025
The Rotary Club of Lenexa sponsors the Shawnee Mission Northwest High School Interact Club. They are an energetic group that helps Lenexa Rotary from time to time and also have their own projects and fundraisers. In June 2023 and June 2024 members of the Interact Club traveled to Puerto Rico with Woodland Charity. While there they distributed water filters to residents, picked up debris at Playa Guayanes, painted the community center in Calabazas and worked in a community garden.
Winners of the Wes Fry 4 Way Test Speech Contest
1st place - $2,500
2nd place - $2,000
3rd place - $1,500
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Moe Cougher with Lenexa Rotary and Olathe Noon Rotary set up another great packaging event with Heart to Heart International. Our District 5710 and Clubs already donated over $38,000. This is the second Rotary hands on packaging event. As with our last event we had great participation from Overland Park, Ambassadors of West Kansas City and Western Johnson County. We also had Lenexa's in-bound exchange student Elvira Gonzalez Acosta from Canary Islands and members of the Lenexa Community Corps.
5th Floor-Treetop Room
Lenexa, KS 66215
United States of America