The Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce named Jonathan Long as the Director of Community Advancement in January 2018. The founder of the Wichita Urban Professionals, Long was previously employed as a Talent Acquisition Recruiter for T-Mobile USA. He also held positions with the Workforce Alliance of South Central Kansas, Wichita Public Schools and the Wichita Eagle. Long has been involved in a number of community initiatives related to attracting and retaining talent, fostering community pride, and advancing diversity and inclusion initiatives. His previous Chamber volunteer experience includes: - 2017 Leadership Wichita Graduate - 2016 YPW Distinguished Professional Award Recipient - 2016 Panelist on improving race relations in Wichita - 2015 City-to-City Young Professionals of Wichita Scholarship Recipient A graduate of Middle Tennessee State University with a Bachelor of Business Administration, he has also studied at Wichita State University. In his role as the Chamber's Director of Community Advancement, Long oversees initiatives including diversity and inclusion, City-to-City trips and Leadership Wichita.
The Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce is the dedicated champion for their more than 1,800 business members and their employees. The Chamber’s volunteer leadership and staff allocate the organization’s resources to advance a competitive business environment that gives members a distinct advantage in achieving business objectives.
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UPCOMING MEETING SCHEDULE
June 30 CLUB ASSEMBLY - passing of the gavel & Year-end committee reports
July 7 Speaker: Cynthia Berner, Director of Libraries
July 14 Semi-Annual Committee Meetings
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MESSAGE FROM OUR ROTARY DISTRICT:"Food for our Neighbors Project"
Our District’s Leadership Team has developed a Project to help our neighbors who are experiencing increased food scarcity because of the public health challenges and resulting economic pressures.
We have decided to use approximately $17,000 of unused local District Grant Funds and the balance from reserve District Designated Funds returned to the District by the Rotary Foundation, to purchase $50,000 of processed meals from The Outreach Program in Des Moines, Iowa.
Those folks have worked with Iowa State University to produce highly nutritious and tasty meal-size servings, at the very reasonable cost of 33 cents per serving or 3 meals for $1. Our Project is supplying 150,000 meals of oatmeal, Mac & cheese, rice dishes, etc. Not four course meals but enough to sustain hungry adults and especially children, when they need it the most!
The meals, which come in 42 serving shoebox sized boxes, are being divided evenly among our 60 Clubs, including our E Club (60 boxes per Club), for you to donate where you think it will do the most good in our communities, whether food bank or pantry, Senior Center, Meals on Wheels for weekend supplies or school or summer childrens’ meals programs.
F & A Food Sales (Dan & Garrett Farha) in Concordia, is helping make this happen by backhauling the food from Kansas City, then delivering it to Russell, Colby, Sublette and Wichita at extremely generous freight rates. Numerous Rotarians have stepped up around the District to manage pickup sites in Great Bend, Winfield, Hays and Salina, besides the delivery sites.
No matching money is being requested, but please thoughtfully consider continuing to support local food programs or raising money for cash purchases with local merchants, most of whom have been donating substantial amounts of food themselves over the years. As Rotarians we care, let them know.
NOTE: Our area Wichita Rotary clubs opted to have their portion of the meals delivered to the Kansas Food Bank for distribution.
BIRTHDAY CELEBRANTS
If you missed getting a Rotary coin for your birthday during the quarantine OR any other time during this past Rotary year, you can pick one up at our meeting.
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Good Day, Fellow Rotarians,
Can you believe it? We have been approximately 15 weeks without a noon meeting at RHCC. We met together on the 16th, and with a few exceptions, it went well and it felt so good to finally see all of you. Those of you who were not able to attend last week’s meeting, we missed you and look forward to seeing you sometime soon. Our speaker this week will be Johnathon Long with the Wichita Chamber of Commerce. See you all soon.
Vern Klassen
LAST WEEK'S MEETING...
It was wonderful to see members again after such a long break during the quarantine. To practice pre- cautions, we sat six per table and the RHCC staff served our plates at the buffet. We had a nice turn out for the meeting and got to hear about the great things they are doing at Blue Sky Ranch.
CLUB INFORMATION
Attendance last week: 56%
Membership: 62
Happy Basket: $23
Holiday Raffle: Diana Fredelake won $6. The pot will be worth $125 this week if the Ace is drawn.
Congratsto Brian Goudie who announced he became a new Grandpa that day!
CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS
Join us for STAR Class this week(Tuesday, June 23) 11:30 a.m. at RHCC before our club meeting. This month's topic is: History of Rotary
Quarterly billing statements will be e-mailed this week through Club Runner. Meal credits will be given for scheduled meetings that were canceled due to the quarantine.
Semi Annual Committee
Meetings: Our committees will sit together at our July 14 meeting to make plans for the new Rotary year.
Contributions to THE ROTARY FOUNDATION should be submittedbefore the end of June if you would like to be eligible for the drawing for the week stay at the Bowles' cabin in Colorado. Bring your check to the meeting this week or next OR mail directly to John Mosley. Checks should be made payable to: The Rotary Foundation.
The Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce named Jonathan Long as the Director of Community Advancement in January 2018. The founder of the Wichita Urban Professionals, Long was previously employed as a Talent Acquisition Recruiter for T-Mobile USA. He also held positions with the Workforce Alliance of South Central Kansas, Wichita Public Schools and the Wichita Eagle. Long has been involved in a number of community initiatives related to attracting and retaining talent, fostering community pride, and advancing diversity and inclusion initiatives. His previous Chamber volunteer experience includes: - 2017 Leadership Wichita Graduate - 2016 YPW Distinguished Professional Award Recipient - 2016 Panelist on improving race relations in Wichita - 2015 City-to-City Young Professionals of Wichita Scholarship Recipient A graduate of Middle Tennessee State University with a Bachelor of Business Administration, he has also studied at Wichita State University. In his role as the Chamber's Director of Community Advancement, Long oversees initiatives including diversity and inclusion, City-to-City trips and Leadership Wichita. 
If you missed getting a Rotary coin for your birthday during the quarantine OR any other time during this past Rotary year, you can pick one up at our meeting.
