RCK Member Ada Hernandez-Bell introduced our speaker, Yassin Therou, proprietor of Yassin’s Falafel House restaurants. Yassin is familiar to the Rotary Club of Knoxville because he was the 2018 recipient of the Rotary Club of Knoxville Peace Award. Yassin has received...

Rotarian Rob Johnson introduced our speaker, Betsy Johnson, of Betsy’s Nutrition.  Betsy is Rob’s sister-in-law; she is married to Rob’s brother Jonathan. Ms. Johnson’s passion, and business, is nutrition, diet and exercise, and talking and teaching about them.  Betsy...

We had the pleasure of hearing about the 2024-2025 Local Community Service District Project grants from the three finalists and their Rotary sponsors. After hearing the presentations, members had the opportunity to vote on their choice to receive the $10,000 grant by...

Rotarian Kim Isenberg introducer Rotarian Doug Lawyer, who serves as vice president of Economic Development with the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce. He has a demonstrated history of success in the areas of regional industrial/business recruitment, retention and...

Justin Cazana, Principal Broker with Avison Young Commercial Management Justin listed the many segments of commercial real estate, then covered some basics. He said the market is not as bad as it looks. Avison does about $200,000,000 a year in business locally. They...

RCK Member David Winstrom, Managing Executive Producer at WVLT News, introduced his colleague from WVLT Anchor and Multimedia Journalist Brittany Tarwater.  Dave spoke glowingly about Ms. Tarwater’s capabilities as a journalist and compared her quite favorably to...

Breckenridge Morgan (US Navy 1991-2013) led our post-Veterans Day program honoring and thanking the veterans in our club. Breckenridge cited Mike Comer, Air National Guard for 25 years, retired in 2011 as a Lt. Colonel Jim Cundall, Air National Guard 1963-1999, Air...

RCK Member and past RCK District 6780 District Governor Frank Rothermel introduced Chattanooga Rotarian John Germ.  As Frank noted, Mr. Germ has held many important offices in Rotary, including serving as RI President in 2016-17 and Rotary Foundation Chair 2021-22,...