My Atlanta Experience at RI 2017

My Atlanta Experience at RI 2017![]() |
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Lenexa Art Fair RecapOn Saturday, May 13th, our club teamed up with the Western Johnson County Rotary Club to run our beer and wine booth at the Lenexa Art Fair, which was located at the Southeast corner of 87th Street Parkway & Renner Boulevard. From Phil: "Thanks so much to all for a very successful Lenexa Art Festival. We made $1,431 of which we receive 1/2. and $142 (19 bottles) of wine will go to The Lenexa Rotary Club." Thanks to all our club members who helped out: Phil Hammond, Moe Cougher, Andy Ramsey, Erik Troy, Terry Tevis, Jerry Bowmer, Pat Thomas, and Doug Gorham. |
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District Conference--Fellowship and Service![]() Also at the conference, attendees packaged 13,000+ meals for Rise Against Hunger--in record time, under an hour! Please take a moment to thank Jason Leib for his efforts in organizing this year's conference. He and his committee did an excellent job. |
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SMNW Interact Club![]() SMNW Interact and Lenexa Rotarians packaging meals for Rise Against Hunger. |
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Photos from our 50th Anniversary![]() |
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City of Lenexa Recognizes Our Club's 50 Years of Service |
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Greetings from Denmark![]() Zach Ziegenhorn is our outbound youth exchange student. He shared this post on Facebook recently, marking his 100th day in Denmark! You can follow his adventures on his blog: https://zchzg.wordpress.com/
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Happy Holidays from the Interact Club!![]() Interact Club at Shawnee Mission Northwest, with Rick Morton, Greg Peterson, and Jan Berg
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Final Coat CountAs you know, the Lenexa Rotary Club challenged the Rotary Club of Shawnee to see which club could collect the most coats for the Johnson County Christmas Bureau this fall. Well, the results are in!
Lenexa: 178 Shawnee: 201 It was a close competition, and although our club fell short, we're all winners because 379 people will be warm this winter, thanks to our combined efforts! President JC Burcham will pay a visit to the Shawnee club this coming Friday (they meet at 7:15am at Town Hall, 11600 Johnson Drive, Shawnee, KS, for anyone interested!) to make her concession speech. Cheers to all who helped us collect so many coats!! |
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Union Horse Distilling Co. TourPictures from the Union Horse Distilling Co. tour
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HopeBUILDERS Update![]() |
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Stop Hunger Now updateOn Nov. 29th, members of the Lenexa Rotary Club and Shawnee Mission Northwest Interact Club, as well as friends and family, gathered together to assemble more than 14,000 meals for people in need around the world. What a great way to celebrate Thanksgiving and feed thousands of people! Lenexa members in attendance (not all are pictured here): Phil Hammond, Pat Thomas, Greg Peterson, Alan Kruckemyer, Mike Dix, Moe Cougher, Andy Hoedl, Matt Janes, Rick Morton, Steve Nettles, Dennis Moore, Bill Schutte, Doug Gorham, Fred Spears, Lenet Compton, JC Burcham, Alma (exchange student from Italy), Ana (exchange student from Romania) For more pictures, visit the photo album on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/lenexarotary/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1195606503820841 |
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Our Youth Exchange StudentsAna (top/left) dressed as a vampire for Halloween! I don't have a picture of Alma in costume, but here is her beautiful school photo! Our club is proud to sponsor these two amazing young ladies as part of the Rotary Youth Exchange program for one year. Ana is from Romania, and Alma is from Italy. Ana is looking for a different host family for the 2nd semester, if she can find one with kids. If you think you might be able to help out, please contact Lenet Compton asap: lenetcompton@gmail.com
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Volunteers Needed for Holiday ShopUse this signup link to volunteer for the annual Johnson County Christmas Bureau Holiday Shop:
This year's Holiday Shop is located at:
16100 W. 135th St., Olathe, KS (Between Mur-Len and Black Bob, behind the Applebees)
Our club is participating on Dec. 2nd, 2:30-6:00pm. Please sign up for that time slot if you can!
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Follow Zach on his travels in Denmark![]() |
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Meet Our Youth Exchange Kids (arriving early August!)Alma from Italy
Birthday is November 28 and she is 17 years old. Her father is a dentist and mother a housewife. She is an only-child. Her English is "fair" and her strong areas in school are math, computer science, physics, chemistry, biology, philosophy...so we will let her slide a bit on the English proficiency. She comes from a school of 1730 so will fit right in to the big-school environment at SMNW. However she comes from a small, quiet village.
Her counselor is Becca Coleman. Her 1st host family is Matt and Kamille Merz from Lenexa.
Ana from Romania
Birthday is September 22 and she is 16 years old. Her father is an engineer and her mother is a doctor. She has a brother, Teodor. She is fluent in English and is fair in German. The number in her school is 2140 and she also lists math, chemistry, etc. as her classes. Other interesting classes are Logic and Plastic Art.
Her counselor is Lenet Compton. Her 1st host family is Greg and Judith Schieszer from Prairie Village.
More on school and home life next week. The girls are arriving early August!
Please reach out to me if you are interested in hosting January thru May 2017 or know someone who may be interested in hosting. I can be reached at 913-209-3864 or lenetcompton@gmail.com
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