Here comes the judge! The Honorable Kristen Cohoon held court, so to speak, today as our guest speaker. Judge Cohoon is one of the busiest Judges in Texas. Covering all types of cases, from Family to criminal. Thank you for all you do for our wonderful Kendall County.
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Rotary Rockstars
Our club is proud to be recognized as Rotary Rockstars for Public Image by District 5840. Big thanks to Diana Anzollitto and Leigh Owen for doing such a great job sharing our club stories! |
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A visit from the Governor Rotary District Governor that is. Dwayne F. Hopkins, who is also the executive Director/CEO for Fisher House, was in the house of Boerne Rotary Club today. After breaking bread with us and spending some time getting to know our membership, he spoke of his Rotary moment. Usually this is a personal event which has touched their heart so closely and was because of Rotary people in their life. Dwayne had a very moving story to share.
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Sisters of the Benedictine Boerne Rotary Club was blessed today by a visit from Sister Bernadine from the Monastery of the Sisters of the Benedictine, right here in Boerne. We started our Friday club meeting with a wonderful prayer led by Sister Bernadine. Later on she gave us a very informative history of the local group and all of their ministries over the years. Quite impressive.
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Remember Alamo College Cindy Sullivan (center), from the Alamo College, came to our lunch today so our club could learn all about the new plans for a new campus just over the county line. This new campus will be much closer for Boerne students who would like to continue their education with an AA degree or to transfer to other 4 years colleges or universities.
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What's a Bitcoin? What's a Bitcoin you ask? Well our club invited Katy Green from Frost Bank who gave an introductory speech on Crypto Currency. Our club had lots of questions.
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Protecting our kids Rick Goodrich discussed with our club how Boerne School Districk works proactively to protect our kids. |
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Hill Country Mission for Health Connie Padgett from the Hill Country Mission for Health was our guest speaker today. There about 8,000 lower income residence of Kendall County who do not have access to proper medical care. Mission of Health helps fill this gap. Completely funded by private donation, grants and fund raising, they are currently having a fund raising effort by selling raffle tickets and asking for volunteers.
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Rotary Leadership Training Saturday District 5840 had their annual Rotary Leadership Training day. Did you know the Rotary International provides leadership training to all members of Rotary? This training can help you at work and as a Rotary member within your club and community.
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Effects of Supply Chain Issues Jack Beckwith, a certified real estate and business appraiser, discussed with our club the effects of supply chain issues with current appraisals. Changing markets are happening faster everyday. The car industry is in the middle of a very large change as they transition from gasoline to electric or other alternative fuels.
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Meals in a backpack Our club donates monthly to Meals in a Backpack where kids who are known to have food shortages at home are given backpacks with food for the weekend.
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The Thru Project Courtney Laverty,of the Thru Project opened our eyes to the reality of Foster care. Children in Forster Care are more likely to end up homeless then most any other child. The Thru project is an effort to help these people as they age out of the Foster Care program by organizing mentors and other programs the state supplies. These efforts have proven to be successful and they need more mentors.
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Starfish Ministry of TExas  The Starfish Ministry of Texas is an amazing calling. Glynna Rester started this ministry to help an orphanage in Peru. Her stories of organizing a group of dentist to go all the way to Peru to help the kids and others in the area, are quite heartwarming.
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SAC Airborne Command Post Hank Carriger (right) a retired airborne command member of SAC, gave our club a history of one of the first and oldest planes our country used in the mission of strategic defense.
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Boerne Radio  Baron and Shan Wiley spoke to our club today about the heartwarming story behind Boerne Radio. What a wonderful story of passion, friendship and the blessing of god which helped guide Baron and Shan to bring Boerne Radio to airwaves of today's listeners with a message of peace and hope.
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Local Maps!  These wonderful local maps! We have all seen them and used them. Today the Boerne Rotary Club had the fun and pleasure of meeting Sarah Eckert-Maurer, the maker of these fun maps. She showed us games that can be played with your family. Gave away prizes from her sponsors of the maps and told us how she makes them.
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New Police Chief The Boerne Rotary Club welcomes the new Chief of Police Steve Perez.
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Community Service Trying to keep everyone cool! Today the Boerne Rotary Club assembled 40 fans to be distributed by the Meals on Wheels team to needy people in our community.
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Thanking the team As Leigh Owen thanks her amazing team for a great year, our club closes a successful year and welcomes a new club president Jack Estes.
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A Toast to a Great Year Today, Leigh Owen shared a toast with all of the club members as we celebrated her fantastic year. Today marks the end of her wonderful leadership. Don’t forget, next week we meet at the Cibolo Center on Thursday evening to induct our new club president, Jack Estes. |
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Ukraine Relief Fund Our Rotary Club raised $2,200 for the Ukraine Relief Fund this past month. The "Big Check" was presented to District Governor Kristy Vandenberg of District 5840
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Ready to start the RI conversationThe opening ceremony is about to start. 11,000 Rotarians are here in Houston from all over the world. |
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Jacks in Jail? Jack Estes ended up in our old county jail today. There is a club pool going on to see when his wife will raise bail or not? Paul Barwick gave our club a wonderful tour of the The County Jail Museum and its history. This is a very interesting place to visit and we highly recommend taking an hour to learn about our county history. And maybe visit Jack? |
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PTECH ACADEMY Valerie Menchaca gave a wonderful presentation on the new BISD program called the PTECH ACADEMY. This is a very forward thinking program designed to give BISD students a head start in the future job market of cyber security. This is a new and very large job market which has the potential to reward hard working with high paying salaries. Stan Leech also gave another wonderful talk about student leadership and what to look for. |
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Boerne Rotary Club reaches Mile Stone Papa John, our Paul Harris Fellowship chair, presented Leigh Owen with a 100% Paul Harris Fellowship Foundation flag for have 100% of the club members being members of the Paul Harris Fellowship.
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Das Greenhaus Business Incubator Kathy Estes, who has done many amazing things for our club, shared today a new passion for the future of Boerne and others in our community. The new and exciting Das Greenhaus Business Incubator. A place where start-up company’s can share costs in the early life of growth. A place where being around others will add energy and direction to the challenges facing new businesses. Das Greenhaus is community funded by local businesses, the city of Boerne and Kendall county.
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The Doctor is in! If you missed this meeting, you missed a great presentation. Dr. Ron Martinelli is a nationally renowned forensic criminologist who is the only law enforcement expert in the country who is also a Certified Medical Investigator at the physician’s level. He is also a federal and state courts qualified premises liability and security expert. He is also an author of several crime novels which are number one sellers on Amazon, soon to be movies. Not only did Ron give us a view into his work as a criminologist, he also, discussed his writing and creative process.
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Boerne Rotary Gives ScholarshipsOn Monday and Tuesday, it was an honor to represent our Club at Boerne and Champion High Schools with the presentation of our two scholarships for each school. A big thanks to Rick, Susie and Kathy Funk Baxter for all their work in selecting some great students for the Mike Coyle Memorial Scholarships and the Gaylan Schroeder Memorial Scholarships. The scholarship recipients were:
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The Night Sky by Jack Estes President Elect Jack Estes (center) gave an amazing presentation of his personal time lapse photographs of the stars in our sky using his telescope and very sophisticated software. Edwards Rogers (left) a fellow Rotarian and member of the Kendall County Friends of the Night Sky, gave Jack an award for his work. Leigh our club president also presented Jack with a book to be donated to our local library in Jacks name.
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Bigtooth Maples, A love Story Suzanne Young is a founding member of the Boerne Chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas [NPSOT] formed in 2000. She manages their Bigtooth Maples for Boerne project, an annual free tree giveaway program that began in 2006 with the financial support of the Cibolo Preserve along with the community's help in adopting and caring for these unique native trees. The Big Tooth Maple is a beautiful native tree. Suzanne is very passionate about helping our county by teaching the community about how each of us can have one of these trees in our yard. Contact Suzanne for more information.
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Casino Night Big Success    Casino Night a big success! The club held our annual fund raiser and raised over $16,000 for scholarships and other community needs
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Getting ready for Casino Night 2022 |
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Ruben Cardenas, A Paul Harris Fellow Ruben Cardenas leads the way in showing other club members how to pass on the traditions and spirit of being a Paul Harris Fellow. Today, Ruben Cardenas make his daughter a Paul Harris Fellow in her name.
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Theodore Roosevelt, by Joe Wiegand Joe Wiegand is the world's premiere Theodore Roosevelt reprisor and a fellow Rotarian. This was a truly magical meeting as Theodore Roosevelt visited our club. As the meeting started, President Roosevelt chatted with club members just as he did so many years ago as if we were in the white house or at a dinner with the president. Theodore told stories of his life and recalled important moments. Not until the very end of the meeting did Joe Wiegand step out of character and said goodbye to the audience.
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Angel Flight South Central Texas  What is the best kept secret in Texas? Angel Flight South Central is the answer. Many thanks to Jim Daniell, who is the wing leader of Texas South Wing, for speaking at our club today. Jim informed the club of how Angel Flight gives people free flights for humanitarian needs. All of the flights are paid for and flow by the pilot members of AFSC. The majority of the flights are for cancer patients being transported for treatments. Jim is in the left photo and in the right photo is club president elect Jack Estes, Jim Daniell and Ken Stickney a past board member of Angel Flight West.
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Boerne Rotary Remembers a founder This week our club gathered to remember and honor one of its founding members, Dillon Snell. Above are people who had the opportunity to know him and work with Dillon. |
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100 Percent Paul Harris Membership Chris Taylor was presented with his Paul Harris Fellowship certificate from Club Chairmen John Peterson. The Boerne Rotary Club now has 100 percent of it's members are Paul Harris Fellows.
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Not your ordinary Chamber of Commerce Kim Blohm goes to great lengths to help the Boerne Chamber members and the the Boerne community. Our Rotary club learned many of the new strategies Kim is implementing to grow local businesses.
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Where to get help in Kendall Paul Giguere discussed with our club how information about what resources are within Kendall County to assist people in need.
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Latest Paul Harris Fellow members Club president Leigh Owen congratulates our clubs newest members of the Paul Harris Fellowship. Dr Tom Price, Lisa Parks and Cali Redd were presented with their awards by our Paul Harris club chairmen (Papa) John Peterson.
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Walking tour of Kronkosky Place Olivia Burdick gave our club a walking tour of the Kronkosky Place at todays meeting. Members felt like we were on a field trip from school. The club members were happy to be back to our new regular meeting location.
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Texas Heart and Soul Monty Chamberlain gave a wonderful heart warming speech today, as he describe the success of businesses hiring handicapped people in service industries. His research and personal experience found not only was this a successful program for the new employee, but the businesses were so surprised at the success, many of them hired several more people through this program.
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We Won! I am pleased to congratulate every Member of the Rotary Club of Boerne for winning 2022 Nonprofit of the Year by the Greater Boerne Chamber of Commerce at their annual awards gala celebration last night. We were surprised and delighted to represent this amazing Club and have so many Rotarians there to celebrate with us. We want to especially thank Jessica Johnson for her tremendous leadership in the Boerne Strong campaign and every Member who donated, shared and supported. You have helped elevate our Club to this level. Congratulations and cheers to each of you! Leigh Owen Boerne Rotary Club President |
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Help Texas Gather Nature Data Craig Hensley is the Texas Nature Trackers Biologist with the TPWD Wildlife Diversity Team. Craig showed us how everyone can help Texas gather information about what is going on with the nature around us by using the iNaturalist app on your phone. Down load it and take pictures in your back yard or in a hike. |
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Projected Growth of Boerne ISD Rich Sena of Boerne ISD gave an excellent presentation of how our highly acclaimed school district is doing today and in the future. After a review of challenges COVID-19 caused major changes in 2020 our schools got back to the business of educating the students in person. In future is good planning and growth management as our community grows. The Boerne Rotary club wants to thank Mr Sena for taking the time to educate our members on the inner workings of ISD.
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Gifts of Peanut Butter  Club executive, Andrew Voiles presents Kathy Bandujo, from Blessing in a Backpack, with additional jars of peanut butter. Our club collects jars of peanut butter every first Friday to give to Blessings in a Backpack group. They provide weekend and holiday meals and snacks for kids in BISD who are in the free and reduced meal program. Peanut butter is what they need most. |
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Boerne Rotary and GVTC Working Together After collecting 400 turkey pans for the GVTC Giveback Project, Commissioner Christina, past club president Gavin and club president Leigh deliver them to Representatives from GVTC Chris Freddy and Stephen Hays. |
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Sustained Giving Leigh thanks Steve Driskill, 6 time Paul Harris Fellow, along Phil Beauchamp and Lynn Lang, both 3 time Paul Harris Fellows, for their commitment to sustained giving to the Rotary Foundation. John Peterson presented the awards.
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New member of the Paul Harris Fellowship Boerne Rotary Club President, Leigh Owen, Foundation Chair John Peterson, congratulate Commissioner Christina Bergmann for becoming the club’s newest Paul Harris Fellow.
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Thank you for your service Our beloved Papa John, the patriarch of the Boerne Rotary Club, read a wonderful story of what is a veteran in celebration of Veterans Day. |
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Happy Veterans Day The Boerne Rotary Club proudly puts out our countries flag, old glory, 11 days a year for all of the Boerne TX business who have a subscription to our fund raiser. We use these funds to help our community kids go to college and become part of our community as it grows.
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Thank you Laura Anderson Boerne Rotary Club wants to thank Laura Anderson for taking the time to speak at our club today. Laura has given many years in community service in her career with SAPD, but she is still at it with her service in the 100 club of Kendall County. We are grateful to our first responders and are happy to support their families.
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Arbor Day Tree Planting 2021 was a mile stone year for the Boerne Rotary Clubs annual Arbor Day service project. Each year, for the last five years, working with the city of Boerne, parks and county support, we plant 20 or more trees each year. This year marks over 100 trees planted to date.  |
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Continue Giving  We are off to a great start! Please remember to bring in Turkey pans and bed sheet next week.
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Dickens on Main We want to thank Mary Woods from the city of Boerne for visiting our club today to discuss Dickens on Main. This year is going to be better than ever as the city and business leaders have expanded the events to four weekends.
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Rotary Club of Port Isabel visits We were also thrilled to have our Rotarian friends from the Club of Port Isabel join and exchange flags with us.
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Community Service ReminderOur Club to partner again with the GVTC Foundation to provide support for their Thanksgiving Giveback Project providing over 400 meals to area families this Thanksgiving. They are asking us to provide donations of foil turkey pans this year. In addition, please bring a Donation of twin sheet sets for RMYA. Deadline is Nov 12th club meeting. |
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Cindy Gidden from on San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo Thank you Cindy Gidden for speaking to our club about the great San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo events coming up in the first quarter 2022. For more information and ticket sales, clink on the link above.
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Thank you Raymond Lundaford Boerne Rotary Club president Leigh Owen thanks Raymond Lundsford for speaking at our Rotary club at our weekly lunch meeting. Raymond spoke to our members about their journey into the restaurant business and the history of the Dienger Trading Company building here on main street. As a thank you our club will donate the book in the photo to the Boerne library in Raymond’s name.
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Rotary District Governor Kristy Vandenberg Rotary District Governor Kristy Vandenberg will be speaking at the Rotary Club of Boerne, Texas Friday September 17th at noon.
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Helping Boerne SeniorsBoerne Rotary Club Giving back to Boerne in a cool way The Boerne Rotary Club purchased 20 fans for seniors in need of cooling off in the summer heat.  Working through the Kronkosky Place senior center, the club members assembled the fans they had purchased.  The senior center notifies seniors within the community the Rotary fans are available if a little extra cooling is needed. |
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Congrats Leigh!It's not every day that you receive your Paul Harris recognition from the District Governor.
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Thanks to our Speakers
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Tree Planting at Boerne City Lake Park
What a gorgeous day to plant some trees. Thank you so much Amy and Tyler at Burkett Arbor Care for the trees, the City of Boerne, Texas - City Hall and the members of the Rotary Club of Boerne! |
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Murder Mystery Dinner |
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Welcome New Members! Very thrilled to have both Steve Stewart and Mark Stahl as new Rotarians today! Welcome to Boerne Noon Rotary Club! |
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New floating fishing pier at Joshua Springs Park by Our Club) Members of our club assembled the new floating fishing pier that we purchased with the County at Joshua Springs Park the first weekend in May. This was the culmination of a years worth of work and cooperation with Kendall County. We wanted to provide something to the community that citizens will enjoy for years to come. Special thanks to Mike Arthur, our community Service chair, and his team for working together to provide a great experience of giving back to our community.
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BHS Interact ran our meeting recently. What a great group of leaders..jpg) |
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Gavin Grosenbacher is inducted to Rotary. Welcome to the club Gavin!.jpg) |
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County Attorney and Rotarian Don Allee shows off his grandson Donny Olmos |
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ROTC in BoerneMajor Steven D. Laughery, USAF (ret.), recently spoke to us about the Boerne Air Force Junior ROTC Program. This is a great program. If you would like more information just contact us and we will point you in the right direction.
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Laughter is the best medicine!Having fun at Rotary is one our top goals this year. I'd say we are hitting the mark!
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Jessica Johnson receives her permanent badge. Congratulations to Jessica Johnson as she received her permanent badge from Susie Smith.
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Bryan D'Spain helps us bridge the Millennial gap. Bryan D'Spain, of Broadway Bank Boerne, spoke to our club about the difference between the ages and how to relate to each. It was great to have such a comprehensive look at how to relate to those younger and older than ourselves.
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Kyle Kirl spoke to us about business development and contract negotioations.jpg) Kyle Kirl, Consultant Sales and Marketing, has over 22 years of experience with multiple consumer packaged goods businesses at ConAgra where he has held senior leadership positions in General Management and National Sales and Marketing. He has a profitable growth orientation that has translated into success throughout his career across multiple channels and customers. Mr. Kirl holds a Bachelor of Arts in PR and Business Administration from Illinois State University. Working with clients, Mr. Kirl has been instrumental in enhancing the sales and marketing strategy as well as working on business development opportunities and contract negotiations with key customers.
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Casino Night Success!Casino Night was a great time for everyone as folks came out to game and fellowship while supporting our great organization. Thank you to all who came out to support our club and our causes.
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Breakfast with SantaWe had a great Breakfast with Santa event this year at the Kendall Elementary School. The kids were treated to breakfast, songs, face painting, cookie decorations and presents from Santa himself! We had a great time serving our community and thank everyone who made this event possible for underprivileged children in our area. |
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PERCEPTION VS. REALITY: CLUB EVALUATION AND VISIONING
Rotary International is pleased to present part two in this four-part webinar series to support clubs and districts as they work to strengthen their membership. This series will highlight different strategies, best practices, and Rotary resources available to help clubs and districts, using real-life examples from Rotary members and RI Staff.
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Upcoming Holiday DatesOctober 24th, we will not meet at noon, but we will have a Halloween Party that evening at Steve & Jimi Driskill's, 346 Skyland Dr. So get your costumes planned now! There will be a prize or two for the best ones. November 28th - No Meeting in observance of Thanksgiving. December 26th - No meeting in observance of Christmas January 2nd - No meeting in observance of New Year's |
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Dillon Snell turns 90!
Dillon has been a Rotarian in our club for decades and he literally wrote the book on the foreign exchange for Rotary. We were all very excited to have him come to our club assembly where the club presented him with a check for $1,000 to the Rotary International Foundation in his honor. Dillon also brought his Daughter Ann, nephew Norman and former exchange student to our club from 1980, Marion from South Africa. |
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Rotary Awareness at the Boerne Christmas ParadeWe had our first parade float in a very long time this year at the Boerne Christmas Parade. It was a fun evening and we got to wave and say hi to thousands of people. If you are interested in learning more about our club, click on any of the director's email addresses on the left hand side of this home page and send us an email. We would love to have you visit our club as our guest! |
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PaPa JohnCentennial District Governor John Peterson, better known as "PaPa John" at Kendall Elementary School, takes his duty very seriously by attending every Knighting and EarlyAct meeting. Please join him sometime and see the good work our club is accomplishing.
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Astrid Detry, exchange student from BelgiumAstrid Detry was our speaker this week. She educated the club about her country and hometown. If you and your family are going to do something fun, please, give Astrid a call and take her along. Great job this week Astrid! We are glad you're here. |
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Our first ever Heart of Rotary award reciepient, Justin DavisWe were proud to honor Justin Davis, with HEB, as our first ever Heart of Rotary award winner. This is an award to honor non-rotarians in the community that exemplify the characteristics of a Rotarian. Congratulations Justin! |
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Welcome to the club, DavidDavid McGovern was inducted as a new member this week. If you see David around, please welcome him in. |
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Happy Birthday to Dillon Snell!
