April 16th, the Jayhawk Breakfast Rotary club started meeting via Zoom. The first week's attendance was 39, with an increase to 46 the following week. We continue to do the invocation, pledge of allegiance, announcements, good news, and a speaker. The first week, our very own Lindsey Slater gave an update on service opportunities in Lawrence. http://lawrencechamber.com/rise/
Maceli's Banquet Hall & Catering is our typical meeting venue. It was approved for the Small Business Administration's new Paycheck Protection Program and has pivoted it's business model to create delicious Heat-and-Eat meals for the community. Many Rotarians are supporting the business by purchasing meals for their families. macelisonline.com.
We had a guest attendee for April 23rd's Zoom meeting, Andrea Kawaletz. She was a Rotary business exchange student in banking 10 years ago, staying with Bruce Roberts and Jane Blocher (the club President at the time) for 6 weeks. Before the speaker's presentation, she gave an update on her life in Northern Germany, shared her love for Lawrence & our club, and expressed her desire to come to see us again when it's safe to travel.
Krista Barbour spoke about turning 6th graders into published authors! She is the creator of a whimsical & rigorous middle school English classroom at Bishop Seabury Academy. During National Novel Writing Month (also known as NaNoWriMo) her students join the challenge to each write an 18,000-word novel in 30 days!
This Thursday, April 30th we will meet via Zoom at 8 am, rather than our usual 7 am, again. The presentation will be about the Rotary Exchange Student Experience with speaker Josie Ostergaard.