Sign Up for Rotarians and their family: Contact Abe Loper with your interest and shirt size by Thursday, September 3rd. Contact information can be found in Rotary’s dacdb.com.

If you are not a member but would like more information on how to become one, please visit: https://www.lynchburgmorningrotary.com/membership-application

Who: Rotarians & Their Families

What: The Virginia 10 Miler is a beloved Lynchburg tradition, attracting runners from all over the country for its scenic course and exciting atmosphere. Challenge yourself on this 10-mile course that winds through the heart of charming Lynchburg, VA.

Rotary Club meetings play a vital role in fostering community connections, allowing members to collaborate on service projects that create lasting local and global impact. They also provide a forum for leadership growth, professional networking, and the exchange of ideas that inspire meaningful change.

Who: Rotary Members & Their Guests

What: Join us for our weekly Rotary meeting featuring Rachel Travis of LuxeVenture Travel Co. Rachel will share how she helps busy executives, business owners, and families plan custom luxury travel experiences, from international itineraries and cruises to five-star resorts, private guided trips, and milestone celebrations.

Sign Up for Rotarians and their family: Contact Burt Duren, Sean Huyett, or Todd Blake. See dacdb.com for contact information.

If you are not a member but would like more information on how to become one, please visit: https://www.lynchburgmorningrotary.com/membership-application

Who:  Rotarians and their family

What: This is a volunteer opportunity to serve alongside our fellow Rotarians from Brazil! Volunteers will work as a group to pack weekend food bags for students in our area.  Tasks include packing, stocking carts and shelves, cardboard box breakdown, rolling carts of assembled bags to back stock room, prepping some items for packing and other tasks related to the process of assembly and clean up.

Rotary Club meetings play a vital role in fostering community connections, allowing members to collaborate on service projects that create lasting local and global impact. They also provide a forum for leadership growth, professional networking, and the exchange of ideas that inspire meaningful change.

Who: Rotary Members & Their Guests

What: Join us for our weekly Rotary meeting featuring the Rotary Friendship Exchange Team from District 4640 in Paraná, Brazil. The team will share the spirit of Rotary Friendship Exchange, highlighting the cultural connection between District 7570 and Brazil’s District 4640, the joy of international fellowship, and the upcoming opportunities for Rotarians to travel, host, and build lifelong friendships across borders. District Governor Charlotte Whitted will also be in attendance!

Learn more about Rotary Brazil District 4640: https://www.rotary4640.org.br/home
See recent highlights from Rotary Brazil District 4640: https://www.instagram.com/distrito4640/?hl=en

Rotary Club meetings play a vital role in fostering community connections, allowing members to collaborate on service projects that create lasting local and global impact. They also provide a forum for leadership growth, professional networking, and the exchange of ideas that inspire meaningful change.

Who: Rotary Members & Their Guests

What: Join us for our weekly Rotary meeting featuring Tim Reynolds and Hurtt and Proffitt. Tim will share how Hurt & Proffitt helps shape communities across Virginia through civil engineering, land development, surveying, and infrastructure planning, while offering insight into the projects and partnerships driving growth and economic development throughout our region.

Rotary Club meetings play a vital role in fostering community connections, allowing members to collaborate on service projects that create lasting local and global impact. They also provide a forum for leadership growth, professional networking, and the exchange of ideas that inspire meaningful change.

Who: Rotary Members & Their Guests

What: Come ready to discuss the club’s business updates and what’s next for each committee in its impact in the community.

Rotary Club meetings play a vital role in fostering community connections, allowing members to collaborate on service projects that create lasting local and global impact. They also provide a forum for leadership growth, professional networking, and the exchange of ideas that inspire meaningful change.

Who: Rotary Members & Their Guests

What: Join us for our weekly Rotary meeting featuring Sue Ott Rowlands, President of Randolph College. Sue will share insights from her career spanning higher education leadership, international arts exchange, and professional theatre, including her work leading Randolph College and advancing global learning opportunities through the arts.

Rotary Club meetings play a vital role in fostering community connections, allowing members to collaborate on service projects that create lasting local and global impact. They also provide a forum for leadership growth, professional networking, and the exchange of ideas that inspire meaningful change.

Who: Rotary Members & Their Guests

What: Join us for our weekly Rotary meeting featuring Steven Gould, President & CEO of PLDR Law. Steven will share insights from his legal and leadership experience in employment law, estate planning, corporate matters, and state and local government relations, as well as his upcoming role as 2026 Chair of the Virginia Bar Association Board of Governors.

Rotary Club meetings play a vital role in fostering community connections, allowing members to collaborate on service projects that create lasting local and global impact. They also provide a forum for leadership growth, professional networking, and the exchange of ideas that inspire meaningful change.

Who: Rotary Members & Their Guests

What: Join us for our weekly Rotary meeting featuring Stacy Garrett, Executive Director of the Downtown Lynchburg Association. Stacy will share how DLA champions a strong, vibrant, and welcoming downtown through revitalization, business engagement, placemaking, cultural events, and efforts to bring the Downtown 2040 Master Plan to life.

Who: Rotary Members & Their Guests

What: On Aug 6, The Virginian is not available.  Instead, we will have a "field trip" meeting at the office of Business Training Works, Inc. (Chris & Kate Zabriskie's company). The office is located at 901 Jefferson Street (Suite G3). Chris will be our speaker and his topic will be all about his experiences at the most recent Rotary International Convention in Taipei, Taiwan. He will also talk about other RI Conventions he has attended in past years. It will be a terrific opportunity for members to learn about the RI Convention experience and generate interest in the 2027 RI Convention which will be held in Barcelona, Spain!

Rotary Club meetings play a vital role in fostering community connections, allowing members to collaborate on service projects that create lasting local and global impact. They also provide a forum for leadership growth, professional networking, and the exchange of ideas that inspire meaningful change.

Who: Rotary Members & Their Guests

What: Join us for our weekly Rotary meeting featuring Alec Brebner, Executive Director of the Central Virginia Planning District Commission. Alec will share how the CVPDC helps local governments work together on regional priorities, including community development, transportation, planning, and collaborative solutions that strengthen Central Virginia.

Rotary Club meetings play a vital role in fostering community connections, allowing members to collaborate on service projects that create lasting local and global impact. They also provide a forum for leadership growth, professional networking, and the exchange of ideas that inspire meaningful change.

Who: Rotary Members & Their Guests

What: Join us for our weekly Rotary meeting featuring Danny Givens of Givens Books & Little Dickens. Danny will share the story of a beloved Lynchburg family business that began in 1976 as Boonshire Books and grew into today’s 16,000-square-foot community landmark for books, toys, gifts, and teaching supplies.

Rotary Club meetings play a vital role in fostering community connections, allowing members to collaborate on service projects that create lasting local and global impact. They also provide a forum for leadership growth, professional networking, and the exchange of ideas that inspire meaningful change.

Who: Rotary Members & Their Guests

What: Join us for our weekly Rotary meeting featuring Rob Mann, External Affairs Manager for Appalachian Power Company, serving the Smith Mountain Lake, Lynchburg, and Southside Virginia service territory. Rob will share insights on local and county governmental affairs, community relations, and regional economic development, drawing from his experience across AEP’s transmission right-of-way, real estate, and external affairs teams.

Traci Blido, our Rotary Area 5 Governor (Lynchburg/Bedford/Amherst/Altavista/Forest + inviting SML), was able to get discounted tickets to the Hill City Howlers Baseball Game for our Area Rotary Clubs to attend the July 10th MARGARITA NIGHT to benefit Alzheimer’s research, so now it’s Rotary Night, too!

The Hill City Howlers are donating $3 per ticket to our Rotary Alzheimer’s Research (CART) for this event and the first 1,000 people will get a Howler’s Aloha Shirt!!!

Our District 7570 CART Chair Milton E. Carter is coming from Tennessee to be with us that evening so let’s honor him with a good showing! He is so happy this event raises funds for Alzheimer's research as we are all touched with someone we know who lives with this condition.

Buy your tickets at the Rotary link here, and wear your Rotary gear if you have it. 
https://www.gofevo.com/event/Rotaryarea2

Rotary Club meetings play a vital role in fostering community connections, allowing members to collaborate on service projects that create lasting local and global impact. They also provide a forum for leadership growth, professional networking, and the exchange of ideas that inspire meaningful change.

Who: Rotary Members & Their Guests

What: Join us for our annual change of command. Farewell to our former club president and welcome and vision from our new club president.

We also want to extend a special thank you to Patrick Proffit with Hurt & Proffitt for generously providing 20 tickets in their Skybox for the Lynchburg Hill City Howlers baseball game on July 2nd. Tickets for this fellowship opportunity will go quickly, so please let us know if you would like to reserve one or two. After all, who doesn’t enjoy good camaraderie, baseball, and an evening with fellow Rotarians?

Contact Kim Soerensen for tickets.

There will be no meeting on July 2nd, leading into the 4th of July weekend. Happy 250th Independence Day!

Rotary Club meetings play a vital role in fostering community connections, allowing members to collaborate on service projects that create lasting local and global impact. They also provide a forum for leadership growth, professional networking, and the exchange of ideas that inspire meaningful change.

Who: Rotary Members & Their Guests

What: Join us for our regular Rotary meeting featuring Tony Robinson, CEO of Framatome North America. Tony will share insights on Framatome, the nuclear industry, and their impact in the local community.

Rotary Club meetings play a vital role in fostering community connections, allowing members to collaborate on service projects that create lasting local and global impact. They also provide a forum for leadership growth, professional networking, and the exchange of ideas that inspire meaningful change.

Who: Rotary Members & Their Guests

What: Join us for our weekly Rotary meeting featuring Ashleigh Gilmour Meyer, Executive Director of the Lynchburg Historical Foundation. Ashleigh will share her perspective as a public historian and research-driven storyteller, highlighting the importance of preserving Lynchburg’s history and connecting our community to the stories that shape it.

Rotary Club meetings play a vital role in fostering community connections, allowing members to collaborate on service projects that create lasting local and global impact. They also provide a forum for leadership growth, professional networking, and the exchange of ideas that inspire meaningful change.

Who: Rotary Members & Their Guests

What: Join us for our regular Rotary meeting featuring Allan Malina, fiduciary financial advisor and founder of Servus Capital Management in Forest, Virginia. Allan will share insights on philanthropy, purpose-driven financial planning, and helping retirees and mission-aligned organizations navigate the markets with discipline and clarity.

We also want to extend a special thank you to Patrick Proffit with Hurt & Proffitt for generously providing 20 tickets in their Skybox for the Lynchburg Hill City Howlers baseball game on July 2nd. Tickets for this fellowship opportunity will go quickly, so please let us know if you would like to reserve one or two. After all, who doesn’t enjoy good camaraderie, baseball, and an evening with fellow Rotarians?

Contact Kim Soerensen for tickets.

Volunteer at our regular trash pickup to keep our community clean!

For Rotary members, please sign up at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080B4FA5AE2EABFF2-63319920-lynchburg.

If you are not a member but would like more information on how to become one, please visit https://www.lynchburgmorningrotary.com/membership-application.

Who: Rotary Members and Family

What: Each year, our club spends time to beautify our Lynchburg area through street clean ups. We will meet at the Boonsboro Kroger and pick up through to the Boonsboro Shopping Center. This helps keep our city clean and tidy for others and ourselves!

Rotary Club meetings play a vital role in fostering community connections, allowing members to collaborate on service projects that create lasting local and global impact. They also provide a forum for leadership growth, professional networking, and the exchange of ideas that inspire meaningful change.

Who: Rotary Members & Their Guests

What: Come ready to discuss the club’s business updates and what’s next for each committee in its impact in the community.

Rotary Club meetings play a vital role in fostering community connections, allowing members to collaborate on service projects that create lasting local and global impact. They also provide a forum for leadership growth, professional networking, and the exchange of ideas that inspire meaningful change.

Who: Rotary Members & Their Guests

Who:  15 Rotarians Needed- family and children welcome

What:  Park View Community Mission Food for Thought Food Bag Packing | Learn more: Food For Thought - Park View Community Mission

Where:  Pittman Plaza- Lower Level 2323 Memorial Avenue, Suite 27  Lynchburg, VA  24501

When:  Saturday, May 23rd 9:30 AM to 11 AM

Volunteers will work as a group to pack weekend food bags for students in our area.  Tasks include packing, stocking carts and shelves, cardboard box breakdown, rolling carts of assembled bags to back stock room, prepping some items for packing and other tasks related to the process of assembly and clean up.

If you are not a member but would like more information on how to become one, please visit https://www.lynchburgmorningrotary.com/membership-application.

Rotary Club meetings play a vital role in fostering community connections, allowing members to collaborate on service projects that create lasting local and global impact. They also provide a forum for leadership growth, professional networking, and the exchange of ideas that inspire meaningful change.

Who: Rotary Members & Their Guests

What: Come from CEO of CloudFit Software, Carroll Moon, to share updates of CloudFit Software headquartered in downtown Lynchburg and their related JobFit and KidFit 501(c)(3) organizations.

Rotary Club meetings play a vital role in fostering community connections, allowing members to collaborate on service projects that create lasting local and global impact. They also provide a forum for leadership growth, professional networking, and the exchange of ideas that inspire meaningful change.

Who: Rotary Members & Their Guests

What: Come hear from Executive Director of CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of Central Virginia, Allison Stronza, to discuss updates on CASA of Central Virginia, their impact in our community, and how members could get involved.

Rotary Club meetings play a vital role in fostering community connections, allowing members to collaborate on service projects that create lasting local and global impact. They also provide a forum for leadership growth, professional networking, and the exchange of ideas that inspire meaningful change.

Who: Rotary Members & Their Guests

What: Come ready to discuss the club’s business updates and what’s next for each committee in its impact in the community.

Rotary Club meetings play a vital role in fostering community connections, allowing members to collaborate on service projects that create lasting local and global impact. They also provide a forum for leadership growth, professional networking, and the exchange of ideas that inspire meaningful change.

Who: Rotary Members & Their Guests

What: Come connect with other invited guests and share what Rotary is all about! Food included.