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Wichita Country Club

8501 E. 13th Street
Wichita, KS 67206
United States of America

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SCHOOL MAP PAINTING at Gordon Parks Elementary

Keeping with a now-tradition of East Wichita Rotarians, another school map painting has been completed at a Wichita area school, this time on a gorgeous October day at Gordon Parks Elementary! Check out the pictures below! Many thanks to our dedicated volunteers who shared their time and talent to make the map come alive and provide this wonderful learning tool for area students!

YOUNG PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP STATUS gaining momentum!

Now that the 2019-20 Rotary year is in full swing, the Young Professional Membership status has been updated to be even more attractive. This option, available to every prospective applicant under the age of 40, offers membership at one-half of the regular annual dues ($440 vs $880), has NO $100 new member orientation fee and includes TWO meeting lunches each month. Additional lunches each month cost $18/meal and are due at the meeting. This new structure, which will save the member money and encourage attendance, can be enjoyed for up to two years, providing 50% participation (meetings, service projects, mixers, etc) is maintained the first year. After two years at this level, members are required to move to regular member status. Several of our current under-40 members are taking advantage of this option and new young professionals are pursuing it more and more! Take a look and see if it's right for you! We welcome your interest --- and application, (see left) --- in East Wichita Rotary!

EWR volunteers help out at Riverfest 2019

With historic rains in Wichita for days and days ahead of Riverfest 2019, there was concern if this year's "Wichita party" would be a success! Based on the smiles of these East Wichita Rotary volunteers above (and more pix, by following the link below), nothing could be further from the truth! Many thanks to our members for stepping up to help for this community service project! Our group was assigned two shifts: opening day, Friday, May 31, and again on Thursday, June 6. The Thursday date initially posed a challenge to find volunteers but, never fear, our Rotarians stepped up and answered the call! We had a great group of volunteers for Friday AND Thursday! Check out the slide show with more pictures of our volunteers from each of the two days!

MARCH MADNESS BRACKET WINNERS!

March Madness has concluded with Virginia winning it all on April 8th's championship game! With your participation, together(!) our 2^nd Annual “Battle of the Brackets” raised $1,400 for the East Wichita Rotary Foundation, surpassing last year’s inaugural fundraiser total of $1,250! Many thanks to each of you for endorsing this fundraiser for our Foundation, which provides scholarships to local area high school students. Your participation, with the purchase of a bracket or two or a contribution “to the cause”, will provide OVER ONE scholarship, for $1000/year, for a deserving student! Great teamwork, folks!

Tony Hurtig, the husband of our EWR Club Executive, won the $100 prize for the winning bracket. Boy, there was lots of teasing at the meeting when the bracket winner was announced, especially after our Club Executive won last year. As Kim said, "Trust me! We Hurtig’s aren’t lucky in anything else, except perhaps doing brackets."

At our April 10 Rotary meeting, we also had a drawing for $50 each from two of the non-winning brackets and ….. drum roll please ….Michael Moeder and Michael Caffrey (pictured left to right, below) each won $50. Must be a lucky “Michael-thing” going on there! 😊 Just a little tidbit: Michael Caffrey is a very new member AND it was his additional raffle chance, not his bracket, that won. Very cool!

Hope to see you all next year when we "take on the Madness and battle the brackets" again!