Rotary Club of Kenosha George W. Taylor Scholarship applications are now being accepted!
100 Years Young in 2021!
Nearing 100 Years of "SERVICE ABOVE SELF" in Kenosha! 
The Rotary Club of Kenosha was chartered in 1921 by Rotary International. Our over 50 members are active citizens devoted to service. As a major service organization in Kenosha, we annually distribute grants to local organizations, provide hands-on service to the community, and sponsor youth programs.
Please consider joining us in service to the community, district, and world.
We are back in person and meeting on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month at Kemper Center. Come join us from Noon - 1:00 pm for fellowship, friendship and fun!
Stay tuned as we work on our club's Strategic Vision Planning and find new ways to serve our community when & where we are needed in the next decade!
Karisa Wenberg, Executive Director of 1Hope spoke at our luncheon today. Their movement began in 2015 when over 30 Kenosha churches worked together at a Convoy of Hope event. Based on our success and mutual goals, we decided to come together and work towards the collaborative purpose of restoring hope and transforming lives in our community. This event led to multiple meetings with local Churches, government representatives, and business professionals. We listened and learned about the social and economic challenges facing our city. Throughout these meetings, we solidified and focused our collective energy in the areas of church unity, foster care, and neighborhood transformation – all areas that have been historically overlooked. Focused on uniting, fostering and transforming communities. 1HOPE believes in the power of the Churches of Kenosha and their collective ability to unify, gather, pray, and serve together. United, we can ensure that foster children and families have the love and support they need, children are being mentored to become the next generation of leaders, and neighborhoods provide a better quality of life by transforming into safe and prosperous communities. www.1hope.community
Dan Seymour, Author
Dan, son of Rotarian Steve Seymour and his wife Linda will be graduating with Honors in just a few weeks from UW Parkside. During that time he wrote a book – Transformation of the Mind.
Transformation of the Mind is a story of human trial and triumph, told through poetry. It consists of 65 poems split into 7 acts and gives a narrative using the Hero’s Journey Outline. The story highlights the human experience through stages of stagnation, desire for more, struggle, and triumph. Essentially, it is a documentation of mindsets that walk us through the journey to living a real life. In this book, are the experiences, thought processes, feelings, and physics of the human mind. During our lives, we live and grow. We encounter struggle, blessings, pain, and triumph at any given minute, hour, day, and year. We are taken through many lessons over the course of the growing process, and it may be pleasant, or it may be straining. It isn’t easy, but it’s worth it. Accordingly, our mindset alters many times over in life, so we go through it with a wide variety of perspectives and ideas. What we do with our experiences is our decision. This is the evolution of a human being. Be excited and ready to discover concepts true to human kind such as presence, gratitude, collective conscience, liberation, personal revolution, self-fulfillment and realization, purpose, enlightenment, and many more.
We look forward to great things ahead for Dan!
The book is available on Amazon.
Brandi Cummings, Head of Community Programs & Partnerships for the Kenosha Public Libraries (KPL) spoke today on their plans for a new Children's Library in the Uptown Area. There currently are a total of four (4) Libraries in the City of Kenosha - Northside, Southwest, Uptown and Simmons, which was our very first Library and will be celebrating 125 years. They also have 2 book mobiles and 84 staff members, over 1 million books and over 650,000 visits and for the first time in 2 years, they are set to surpass their visit levels pre pandemic! A survey of the City of Kenosha - ALL school types (private, public, charter), ALL races and socio-economic backgrounds showed a 31% reading proficiency level for 3rd graders. Of these, 13% Latinex, 21% white, 5% African American Males are at Reading level. This is a crisis in our community as we know research shows that if you are not at reading level by 3rd grade, you will be behind for the rest of your school years and all sorts of issues in addition (lower graduation rates, higher crime rates). It is also known that if you make books available and accessible for students, they will read more. KPL has placed vending/lending machines in both the Boys and Girls Club and the YMCA, to allow children access to books. The plan is for the Children's Library to be on the first floor, along with a grocery store and restaurant of the Uptown Lofts. Allowing children a place for imaginative play, reasoning, problem solving. It will allow for space for kids/teens to meet up and do homework, projects, art and providing STEAM/STEM resources/capabilities, all while promoting a sense of community. They have the funds for the "shell" of the building but are starting a Capital Campaign for the core contents/decor of the actual library space.
If interested in supporting this incredible project, visit https://mykpl.info/uptown-childrens-library/
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