Mar 7, 2024 | Club Meeting
We had the pleasure of hearing about the Big Ears Festival (BEF) organization from Casey Fox, Director of Development for Big Ears Festival, a non-profit entity. We learned that BEF does many more projects and events than just the Big Ears Festival each year. Casey is...
Feb 28, 2024 | Club Meeting
We were joined on Tuesday by Kasey Krouse from the City of Knoxville. Kasey is the first ever Urban Forester for Knoxville. Kasey started with a picture of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where people are planting trees. Trees are important to a community for 3 different...
Feb 22, 2024 | Club Meeting
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...
Feb 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
Knoxville native Marcus Hall followed his dream of designing and manufacturing custom-made menswear when he founded Marc Nelson Denim in 2011. The business, named after his grandfather who taught him to always look sharp, took inspiration from the Levi Strauss...
Feb 7, 2024 | Club Meeting
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...
Jan 31, 2024 | Club Meeting, Uncategorized
President Alexander gave the mid-year State of the Club report. He noted that the organization is committee driven, and the committees are getting the work done. It is important to sign up for a committee that you truly will find interesting. Those committee choices...
Jan 25, 2024 | Club Meeting
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...
Dec 19, 2023 | Club Meeting
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...
Dec 19, 2023 | Club Meeting
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...
Nov 30, 2023 | Club Meeting
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...
