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One Book, One Burg: Louisburg Reads 2018
Sep. 26, 2018
The 2018 selection for One Book, One Burg: Louisburg Reads is Wonder by R.J. Palacio. The book focuses on compassion, encouraging readers everywhere to Choose Kind. Thorughout the month of October you will have multiple opportunities to #choosekindlouisburg in our community and on social media. We hope you will take advantage of it and to engage with the people around you to create our own Choose Kind movement. Please remember one of our most popular events of the program is the Intergenerational Book Discussion where members of the adult community have the chance to talk with Louisburg High School students about the book. Free up your lunch hour on Thursday, October 26 from 11:30am-1pm and join us in the LHS library for lunch (paid for by the library) discussion. In case you haven't picked up your complimentary copy of Palacio's Wonder at the library yet, here's what you can expect: born with several genetic abnormalities, 10-year-old August Pullman, called Auggie, dreams of being “ordinary.” Inside, he knows he’s like every other kid, but even after 27 surgeries, the central character of “Wonder” bears facial disfigurations so pronounced that people who see him for the first time do “that look-away thing” — if they manage to hide their shock and horror.“ Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse,” he says of his face as the book begins. He’s used to the stares and mean comments, but he’s still terrified to learn that his parents have gotten him into middle school at Beecher Prep and want him to go there rather than be home-schooled. But they persuade him to give it a try — and by the time this rich and memorable first novel by R. J. Palacio is over, it’s not just Auggie but everyone around him who has changed. Stories about unusual children who long to fit in can be particularly wrenching. At their core lurks a kind of loneliness that stirs primal fears of abandonment and isolation. But Palacio gives Auggie a counterweight to his problems: He has the kind of warm and loving family many “normal” children lack. Among their — and the book’s — many strengths, the Pullmans share the, um, earthy sense of humor that all kids love. Over the years his parents, Nate and Isabel, have turned the disturbing story of Auggie’s birth into high comedy involving a flatulent nurse who fainted at the sight of him, and they persuade him to go to Beecher by riffing hilariously on the name of the school’s director, Mr. Tushman. It also helps that the Pullmans’ world — they live in a town house in “the hippie-stroller capital of upper Upper Manhattan” — is the privileged, educated upper-middle class, that hotbed of parents who hover and micromanage the lives of their perfectly fine children. It’s somehow weirdly satisfying to see what happens when something actually alarming enters this zone of needless anxiety. Palacio carves a wise and refreshing path, suggesting that while even a kid like August has to be set free to experience the struggles of life, the right type of closeness between parents and children is a transformative force for good.
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Future Business Leaders of America
Oct. 03, 2018
Adrianne Lane is in her second year at Louisburg High School. She is breathing life into the Future Business Leaders of America organization. Find out more this week! |
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Service Above Self
Oct. 10, 2018
Hear from Rabbi Zalman about the importance of and benefits of living a life with a Service Above Self mission. Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel
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Rotarian International Exchange
Oct. 24, 2018
Kathy Musgrave is a Rotarian in Olathe and is also a member of a club in Florida where she and her husband vacation. She will share information about a Rotary International Exchange trip she took to South Africa. |
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Polio
Oct. 31, 2018
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Rotary Foundation
Nov. 07, 2018
November is Foundation Month. This week we will welcome back to Louisburg Past District Governor Jim Mattes, a long-time Rotarian committed to the values of the organization. He was given the Dr. John Hollyman Award for "Service Above Self," an award meant to honor exceptional commitment and action toward the goals of Rotary. |
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author of Hidden History of Kansas
Nov. 14, 2018
Join us in welcoming author Adrian Zink who penned Hidden History of Kansas |
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Reindeer Games
Dec. 19, 2018
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Recycling
Jan. 09, 2019
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Classification Talk
Jan. 16, 2019
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RezVets
Jan. 23, 2019
Col. Fred Reynolds was invited to join us this week by Rotarian Chris Rembold. Col. Reynolds has been a member of the Rotary Cub in Ankara, Turkey, as well as CLub #13 in downtown KC. he will hsare information about what RezVets is doing to honor and support the veteran women and men in our area who have served us by protecting our freedomes, American values and way of life. RezVets seeks to assist these veterans and their families as they reintegrate into society and the workforce after deployment. Plan to be in attendance to welcome Col. Reynolds and to learn more about how to provide encouragment to Fred and those who are meeting critical needs through RezVets. If you know of any veteran in Louisburg, please invite him/her to join us! |
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RYLA
Feb. 06, 2019
Faron Barr will join us this week to explain RYLA - Rotary Youth Leadership Award that takes place each June on the University of Kansas campus. Please...someone ask why it's an AWARD instead of a CAMP!
Faron E. Barr, ChFC, CLU, CFP® |
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Operation Red File
Feb. 13, 2019
Irina Strakhova will be our program this week. She will distribute and talk about how to use Operation Red File to help first responders in case of an emergency.
Irina Strakhova Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Services Phone (785) 296-8450 E-mail Irina.Strakhova1@ks.gov |
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National FFA Week!
Feb. 20, 2019
Rotarian Kevin Symes invited Jim Morgan from Louisburg High School to tell us a little bit more about FFA. |
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Things are Better than we Think
Feb. 27, 2019
This week Rotarian Marvin Barkis will be the program. We always look forward to Marvin's perspective on life and how we live it. He will share a couple of his most recent favorite books and undoubtedly tell us stories. The books are Factfulness by Hans Rosling, Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker and WTF: What's the Future and Why it's up to Us by Tim O'Reilly. |
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Paul Harris Fellowship
Mar. 06, 2019
This week Lieutenant Governor Mandy Sheldon will share information about the founder of Rotary, Paul Harris, and the fellowship that is a Rotary honor in his name. Please join us to learn more about the foundation of Rotary. Mandy Sheldon |
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from Poland to the US
Mar. 13, 2019
This week Detroit Shelley invited her colleague Kathryn Struckhoff to join us. She was born and raised in Poland and was a formal ballet dancer who studied classical dance and performed abroad. She ended up in the United States when her husband got a job here. Not knowing the language, she learned English by watching Disney movies! Right now she says she is a proud employee of First Option Bank and she has also held many different jobs from doing laundry in a nursing facility until she became a CNA to working in a sawing factory. Come hear her success story...and what the reaction was when she called the Emigration office to ask why her green card was white!
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