Stories

Members of Rotary Club of West Wichita deliver and handout bookshelves to the students at Lawrence Elementary School.

This is the club's longest-running service project 

 

WINES from DOWN UNDER
Sample some of the best wines from Australia and New Zealand. The committee and has paired to wines with great food from the chef at the Doubletree Hilton. It's a can't miss evening which includes a silent and live auction. It's the 6th Annual Wine Dinner to benefit the charitable works of the Rotary Club of West Wichita.

We've done lots of playground maps using a stencil of the United States. We just completed creating a stencil that will let us do a world map.

Next up will be to actually put a map on a playground. Anyone have a location in mind?

 

Katy Dorrah became the executive director at Mark Arts, then known as the Wichita Center for the Arts, in December 2014. Before joining Mark Arts, she was the Vice President of Resource Development for United Way of the Plains since August 1994.

Our Rotary District teams up with Southwestern College Leadership to provide an intensive training program that brings together high school aged youth to further develop character and leadership skills and learn about the ideals of Rotary.

Our club awards three $1,000 high school scholarships to graduating seniors in our area. Information and applications have been distributed to the schools but if you know someone that is eligible, please encourage them to apply!

Volunteers from the club shop for groceries for needy families. It was a tradition started years ago by the late Dr. David Weber. This video shows the effort right before Thanksgiving 2017. 

In 2017, West Rotary turned 30 years old. This slideshow captures some of the memorable activities and events undertaken by members during its first three decades

 

Annual project by Rotary Club of West Wichita. Members gather to build small bookshelves in the woodworking shop of Bob Goebel. Completed shelves are given to local school children to inspire a love of reading.

President Jamie has plans to paint United States maps on up to 11 area elementary school playgrounds and has secured a matching grant to help achieve that goal.