The winner of the First Rotary Grocery Grab in Emporia "grabbed" a carload of groceries into her grocery carts!The winner of the First Rotary Grocery Grab in Emporia "grabbed" a carload of groceries into her grocery carts!
Several area elementary school principals joined us at our club meeting prior to our dictionary distribution to all area third graders.
Richard Duncan provided lots of information on the Rotary Foundation and what it does for good throughout the world.
Brad Loveless is the Secretary of Wildlife, Parks & Tourism for the State of Kansas, and told our Rotary Club that Kansans have earned a reputation for being very hospitable to our visitors. Surveys from visitors indicate that this warm hospitality is what visitors like, and what draws people back for repeat visits to our state. Kansas ranks high among visitors for our quality hunting that is sustained year after year. Cheyenne Bottoms close to Great Bend is the largest inland waterland in the U.S. Kansas has two new parks - Badlands State Park in Logan County, and the Flint Hills Trail connecting Osawatomie in the east and Herington in the west, passing through the towns of Rantoul, Ottawa, Pomona, Vassar, Osage City, Allen, Bushong, Council Grove, Wilsey, and Delavan, a total of 117 miles when it is completed. This state department is not funded by general funds of Kansas. It's funding is dependent on money raised from licenses and permits purchased by people enjoying the Kansas outdoors, and leveraged by Federal funds.
Susan Rathke of the Emporia Conventions & Visitors Bureau
presented the 66th annual Emporia Veterans' Tribute events. For the rest of the United States, this Veterans' Day is the 65th annual Veterans' Day celebration. Kaila Mock, the Emporia Arts Center Gallery Manager presented the EVAC Project, which is a Veterans Art Exhibition traveling show at the EAC gallery through November 23. The $1,700 shipping cost to bring the EVAC Project to Emporia was covered by the Emporia Public Library and the Emporia Arts Center. 
Rotary District Governor Jason Leib visited our Rotary Club and talked about Polio Plus, getting members for a Human Trafficking Commission, water projects, our next district banquet this coming spring, and presented our Rotary Club with a 100% giving banner and told us that our club exceeded $100 per capita in giving to the Rotary Foundation.
Value of Rotary volunteering
Value of Rotary volunteeringA special report prepared for Rotary International by the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies estimated the value of Rotary member volunteer
The Sustainability Challenge
10 years into the Rotary-USAID water and sanitation partnership, here’s what worked, what didn’t — and
6 humanitarians honored for their work with refugees
Six humanitarians who are members of the family of Rotary were honored as People of Action: Connectors Beyond Borders during the 2019
Hoops on the Hudson
In Yonkers, New York, a new basketball court four years in the making provides valuable life lessons to the community’s kids — and its
World Polio Day cheers major achievements toward global polio eradication
Health officials announce type 3 of the wild poliovirus has been completely eradicated, a major step toward a polio-free world.
