Lawrence Central Rotary, Lawrence, Kansas, USA



Lawrence Central Rotary Sponsors Kids Zone for the 2010 Tour of Lawrence The Central Lawrence Rotary is proud to announce the sponsorship of the 2010 Tour of Lawrence Kid's Zones. LCR has sponsored and will be staffing the Kid's Zones on Mass Street, Friday night July 2nd during the Sprint Races, and Sunday July 4th, during the Downtown Criterium on 9th Street just West of Mass. The Kids Zone will consist of several inflatible activities for kids of all ages free of charge.
			Lawrence Central Rotary Facilitates New Bike Rack for the Lawrence Farmer's Market! Lawrence Central Rotary (LCR) is proud to announce a service project that will install a new bicycle rack at the Saturday Downtown Lawrence Farmers' Market located in the 800 block of New Hampshire. LCR has chosen ‘Community Bicycling’ as a common theme for its service projects. The bike rack is of tubular construction and spells out “Ride Lawrence” designed by local artist Sean McCue. Sean entered the his design into last year’s bicycle rack design contest to install a bike rack outside the Lawrence Arts Center. “Although Sean’s design was not chosen for the Lawrence Arts Center rack we felt he had a great design that we wanted to incorporate into the overall biking theme for the Lawrence community,” said Scott Wagner who is the chair of the bike rack committee. “It also sparked the imagination of the club members to rally around the project by incorporating “Ride Lawrence” as the overall theme for this community initiative.”
Lawrence Central Rotary Dedicates Community Bicycle Rack It was a little gloomy October 7th in front of the Lawrence Arts Center but a big crowd came out for the dedication of the first bike rack. With the help of the City, the Lawrence Arts Center and the fabricators. Mark Emge's bike rack design concept called "Arbitrary Triangulation" was inspired by the frame geometry of bicycles. In his proposal he wrote: "There seems to be something methodic and chaotic when multiple bikes are parked at a bike rack. The geometries of these bicycles create a random pattern that is unique to those bicycles and how they are parked. Each day a new series of patterns emerge. "Arbitrary Triangulation" is an interpretation of this random pattern." To the left are members of the bike rack committee from the Lawrence Central Rotary, the designer, the fabricator and Carolyn Chin Lewis, Mark Emge, and the representative from the Lawrence Arts Center. Carolyn Chin Lewis - Lawrence Central Rotary Mark Emge - Bike rack designer Scott Wagner - Lawrence Central Rotary Randy Harwerth - Fabricator from Harnoy Metal Bonnie Cherry - Lawrence Arts Center Bonnie hooks up the first bike!
			July 3 & 4, 2009 Lawrence Central Rotary sponsors Kids Zone at the Tour of Lawrence. Club members spent Friday night and Saturday supervising the kid's bounce house and obstacle course and selling refreshments to everyone who came downtown to see the Sprints and Criterium downtown.
United Way Day of Caring 2008 Spring Day of Caring - a one day community-wide event that organizes volunteers to complete specific service projects. Annually about 300 people participate in Day of Caring. The 2008 Day of Caring took place on Saturday, May 3rd. The Lawrence Central Rotary helped with yard clean up and paining at a local home.

		Senior Center Painting Sept. 14-15, 2007 Rotary members joined members of the Senior Center, their board and D.A.D. Painting in warming up the environment with new cappuccino colored paint. Steve and Denise are pictured in the background. Esteban Monteil Garica of D.A.D. Painting is in the foreground. Photo by Richard Gwin of the the Lawrence Journal World.
United Way Day of Caring 2007 Lawrence's Day of Caring 2007 brought together more than 300 volunteers, many representing local businesses and community organizations. Community spirit ran high as the volunteers worked on 50 community service projects. Lawrence Central Rotary helped with painting the kitchen of the Salvation Army, as well as improving rainfall drainage and landscaping on the exterior. Held in conjunction with National Volunteer Week, the event benefited Douglas County nonprofit agencies and community members in need. The service projects included yard work, painting and producing artwork to name a few. Day of Caring 2007 began with a kickoff breakfast at Lawrence's Free State High School.		United Way Day of Caring - April 21, 2007 click image to see more photos
United Way Day of Caring - 2006 click image to see more photos		Lawrence Central Rotary Service Above Self Award 2007 Seeking to foster the volunteer spirit in middle school students, LCR instituted the Service Above Self Award at Central Junior High in Lawrence, KS. Kelsey Taylor was awarded the honor in an all-school assembly in May. Her work with the Girl Scouts, serving as a mentor for the K-6 camps and with the Boy Scouts in planning a night prowl for younger scouts earned her a $150.00 check. Miss Tayor attended a Rotary meeting in June to talk about her volunteer work.
	Pam Mitchell (second from left) was award the Teaching Excellence Award on April 22, 2007. Ms. Mitchell teaches second grade at Deerfield School.
Pinckney Elementary School Book Donation 2006