At this week’s Wednesday 5/1 meeting Steve Lane will tell us about this year’s Community Bike Ride scheduled for July 20th. This is our club’s signature community project. If you’re interested in hearing more stop by the Eldridge All American Room!
Category: Service
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Steve Lane Discusses the 2013 Community Bike Ride 5/1
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2013 Community Bike Ride Set for July 20, 2013
Lawrence Central Rotary, LiveWell Lawrence, Ride Lawrence and a host of others present a FREE
community bike ride Saturday, July 20th 2013 to promote cycling as a part of a healthy lifestyle at the The Rotary Arboretum at Clinton Park (by the YSC Soccer fields)We’re firming up plans, but be sure to mark your calendar!
More info soon!
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Lawrence Central Sells Christmas Wreaths to Support End Polio Now
After 25 years of hard work, Rotary and its partners are on the brink of eradicating this tenacious disease, but a strong push is needed now to root it out once and for all. It is a window of opportunity of historic proportions. Reaching the ultimate goal of a polio-free world presents ongoing challenges, not the least of which is a hundreds of million dollar funding gap. Of course, Rotary alone can’t fill this gap, but continued Rotarian advocacy like Lawrence Central’s drive can help and this year we did our part by selling holiday wreaths where all the profits made went to the Rotary Foundation’s End Polio Now Campaign.
In addition to in-person internet sales, the kind people at Weavers Department Store allowed Lawrence Central to set up a table to sell wreaths and tell people a little more about all that Rotary does.
The totals are not in yet, but we’ll soon post how much we were able to donate. Thank you to everyone who purchased a wreath, we appreciate your support.
If you haven’t ordered there’s still time to get a wreath in time for the holidays. Use this link ( http://bit.ly/LCRPolioPlus ) to place an order and 25% of your order will go directly to eradicating polio.
Carolyn DeSalvo and Steve Kessler staffing the table outside Weavers 
LCR Member Fred Atchison sold a wreath to a couple visiting Lawrence for the football weekend
Kate Campbell and Steve Kessler all set up for the wreath sale -
LCR Members Help with East Lawrence Sidewalks
Volunteers clearing covered over brick sidewalks in East Lawrence. It was a chilly mid-November morning and a group of volunteers met on the lot directly west of the Poehler Building at Eighth and Pennsylvania streets. When they were recruiting people they said no specific skills are required, just a willingness to work hard and a desire to help beautify the neighborhood. The task was pretty clear, but work was needed, remove a few inches of soil and grass off the public sidewalks in order to expose and clean up the bricks.
The event was a grass roots, word of mouth, event organized by the East Lawrence Neighborhood Association. Their goal that morning was to improve walkability between the newly formed Warehouse Arts District and the downtown Lawrence area.
Lawrence Central’s Steve Lane and Carolyn DeSalvo and her husband helped out as volunteers.. As you can see a huge difference was made by a few caring people and a little hard work.
Cleaned up sidewalk all ready for pedestrians! 
East Lawrence Sidewalk Cleaning before and after shot
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Buy a Wreath and Eradicate Polio
If it were only that simple. Well – we're pretty darn close!This year Lawrence Central is selling wreaths from Lynch Creek Farms and all the profits from the sales are going to the Rotary Foundation's END POLIO NOW campaign.
After 25 years of hard work, Rotary and its partners are on the brink of eradicating this tenacious disease, but a strong push is needed now to root it out once and for all. It is a window of opportunity of historic proportions. Reaching the ultimate goal of a polio-free world presents ongoing challenges, not the least of which is a hundreds of million dollar funding gap. Of course, Rotary alone can't fill this gap, but continued Rotarian advocacy like Lawrence Central's drive can help.
Our reality is that as long as polio threatens even one child anywhere in the world, children everywhere remain at risk and we're doing our part locally to help.You can contact any of our members to purchase in person, wreaths are 39.95 and $10 of each sale goes to helping eradicate polio.
If you'd like to purchase online or something other than a wreath you can use this link http://bit.ly/LCRPolioPlus – It will direct you to the Lynch Creek Website and 25% of your purchase will come back to Lawrence Central to be sent to the Rotary Foundation.
The 26" Christmas wreaths are made with noble fir, juniper and incense cedar, topped off with ponderosa pine cones and your choice of a red or burgundy velveteen hand-tied bow. The price INCLUDES UPS ground shipping.
Click HERE to download a pdf form you can fill out and give to a member locally.
If you have any questions at all email Bob Swan , Tobin Neis or Steve Kesler and they can help you out.
We're proud to do our part locally for this cause and we invite you to help us!
