Canton Rotarian Theresa Blocher is a third-generation member of the KIKO Company and has been full-time with the company since 1989. She is a real estate Broker and Auctioneer.Theresa has a Bachelors Degree in Business from The Ohio State University. She serves as Chairwoman of the Ohio Auctioneers Commission, Appointed by Governor Mike DeWine, and is a member of the Ohio Auctioneers Association, the National Auctioneers Association, the Ohio Association of Realtors, and National Association of Realtors. Theresa is actively involved in her community and serves on the Board of Directors for the Minerva YMCA, County Wide YMCA Board of Trustees, and, of course, is a member of the Canton Rotary.
She and her husband Tim Blocher, DVM, attended a "People to People" education trip to Cuba in February 2020. Theresa will share with us the current conditions and economy in Cuba, and describe their experiences staying at local farms, homes, and hostels, eating the local food, and seeing the tobacco farms and classic cars. She will also describe the conditions there of limited supplies of food, fuel, and basic goods like toilet paper, and then the irony of returning to the United States to face a shortage of toilet paper due to the COVID-19 pandemic!