June 12th , at Lincoln East Rotary, Secretary Evnen, Secretary of State of Nebrask. Secretary Evnen He spent most of his time talking about voting in Nebraska in regards to absentee, early voting, voting in person, and voter fraud.
Through your membership in Rotary, you get The Rotarian which has great stories about what Rotary is doing around the world. Through your own club you get The Spoke which informs you of upcoming speakers, current events and if you missed a meeting, you learn about the speaker and his/her topic.
Lincoln East collects “Happy Dollars” each week for polio plus. Did you know that $4.00 per person helps one to get inoculated to end polio. Here at Lincoln East, you have the opportunity to share your interest, get speakers that find interesting, and share your talents within the club. Each holiday season, we collect for People City Mission, Salvation Army, and Matt Talbott Kitchen & Outreach. We meet each week at The Garage from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm. Lincoln East has it’s own Foundation which helps with some of our special projects each year.
Some of the projects we are invoiced in are the SunFun picnic which is done each summer for the children with disabilities who attend a program through the Lincoln Parks & Recreation Department. We have and are currently working with the Lincoln Parks & Recreation in planting trees around the city. We have worked the football concessions, cleaning up the YMCA Camp Kitaki, worked on an outdoor music station at Camp Kitaki with other clubs, raise and take down flags at the Veterans Garden, gave $50,000 to put up new stands at the Veterans Garden for memorial bricks, and on the International, side we started the Zambia Project which has grown over the years, support schools in Uganda.