NO NOON MEETING WEDNESDAY! We will be having our meeting Thursday to help unload shoes followed by Lunch with the one and only Larry Lunsford. Please join us, you wont regret hanging out with the caravan staff. Lunch will be after the 11:30 unloading at Vocational Services INC. Vocational Services Inc. 935 Kent Street, Liberty, MO 64068
Everyone must have closed toe shoes.
We are looking for volunteers for the following days and times.
Wednesday April 26th unload 4:45pm Unload shoes into the VSI Warehouse See sign up
Thursday April 27th 11:30 unload and lunch, see sign up
Thursday April 27th 4:30pm Unload shoes into the VSI Warehouse see sign up
Saturday April 29th 8:45am - 10:00 Load UPS Trucks see sign up
District Conference is Friday April 28th Cookout and Campfire at Rotary Youth Camp. Saturday April 29th Harry S Truman Library. See below for full details.
Butt Buster meal sales have started. Who do you know that would like an excellent meal? Remember all proceeds to support our youth programs.n This event takes all of us to make this a success. I know that you will want to be outside, it will be sunny and 75. Right Mario? see sign up list
Time to Volunteer to serve/prep meals Click here to sign up!
May 11th, 2023
Trago Bar & Tapas
9261 NE 83rd Terr
Kansas City MO 64158
East Clay / Gladstone / Kansas City / Liberty / Parkville / Smithville
Committee Update: Shoes for Orphan Souls
This will be the 22nd year of collecting shoes. This year shoes will be going to Guatemala and the Dominican Republic. The goal is to collect 15,199. If we can achieve this goal, we will eclipse a cumulative amount of 400,000 pairs of shoes over these 22 years. Shoe collection will take place at the end of April prior to District Conference. Watch for volunteer lists!
D6040 NEWS UPDATE: Congratulations to Amy Chinnery-Valmassei from the Rotary Club of Lee’s Summit who has been selected to serve as the District Governor for 2026-27. Amy joined the Rotary Club of Lee’s Summit in 2011. She will join our outstanding Governor line-up, including current Governor Kent Shelman, Governor-Elect Randy Steinman, Governor Nominee Erik McGuire, and Nominee Designate Jodi Sundaram. Amy has served the Lee's Summit Club as President, Director, Youth Services Chair, Youth Exchange Host Family, and numerous other roles. She was a Charter Member of the MMC-Longview Rotaract Club (2014-15). At the District level, she has served as Assistant Governor, on the Youth Exchange District Committee, as District Interact Chair, and is an RLI Instructor. Please join me in congratulating Amy as our District Governor for 2026-27.
Thanks,
David McCaughey
District Governor 6040 2021-22
Dear District 6040 Rotarians, We have a great District Conference planned for this year!
Friday April 28th : Rotary Youth Camp 22310 NE Colbern Road
Lee’s Summit, Missouri 64086
Cookout and Campfire (Outside-Campfire attire)
Fun, Fellowship, NFL Draft watch party and small Service Project
6:00-9:00 No Charge as evening is sponsored by Lee’s Summit Rotary Club (Cash Bar available)
Saturday April 29th : Harry S. Truman Library
500 NW US Highway 24 Independence, Missouri 64050
Agenda attached for all the activities for the day.
Registration Fee includes Admission to Library, food, drinks, and cocktails. ($65.00)
Members of the Rotary Club of Kaka‘ako Eco, Hawaii, tossed 5,000 mud balls filled with beneficial organisms into the Ala Wai Canal in Waikiki as part of a rehabilitation effort to make the waterway fishable and swimmable. The healthy bacteria in the genki balls — made with soil, molasses, rice bran, and water — digest and oxygenate sludge at the bottom of the canal (genki means healthy in Japanese). In March 2022, more than 200 volunteers, including club members and friends, made the balls, advised by the Genki Ala Wai Project. Three weeks later, they threw the fermented genki balls into the waterway. Donors paid $5 per ball to defray some of the cost. “A lot of kids came out and we had canoes come through the canal to help throw the balls,” says Club President Jenny Do. “We blew the air horn and then hundreds of balls just went into the Ala Wai Canal.”
* 15 -20 tons Trash washing up every year on a stretch of shoreline on Hawaii’s Big Island
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