As a part of Lawrence Centrals healthy living through bicycling initiative we have launched RideLawrence.com
The website is intended is to be a clearinghouse for bicycling information in the City of Lawrence and the Douglas County Kansas area.
Links to all the local and regional bike clubs are listed as well as bicycling and healthy living news.
Please also follow our Twitter feed @ http://twitter.com/ridelawrence
For the latest information on the LCR's Downtown Bike Rack Project Click the image
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.”
Area high school students worked on a beautification effort as a part 
of the Rotary Youth Leadership Academy. The project was done at the Lawrence Rotary Arboretum.
Students in the academy, who are mainly from northeast Kansas, will spent their week at the academy working on various projects around Lawrence and cultivating leadership skills.
Their work at the Arboretum culminated in the dedication of a new sign paid for by the local Lawrence Rotary Clubs (including Lawrence Central Rotary) in honor of the students’ work.
Lawrence Central Rotary is proud to announce Jane Phelps as 
our 2010 Teacher of The Year recipient. Jane's signature phrase "Grab a root and grunt" sums up Jane's approach of seeing a challenge, analyzing it, and coming up with a plan to overcome it. Then, get busy. Jane is retiring this year from Schwegler Elementary – where she taught fifth grade for over 20 years. Jane has instilled her work ethic and stick-to-it attitude to so many students over the year, and for that, we thank her.
exchange students from France. Camille spent the last year living with Carolyn and attended Free State High School. Pauline attended Shawnee Heights. When we asked how our high schools compare with the schools they attended in France, Camille said that they are more enjoyable here – and that she was not used to being able to pick her courses. Pauline was more critical saying that our schools offer lots of great classes, but that the expectations are low and that the curriculum is too easy.
