Cottleville/Weldon Spring Rotary Club

Wednesday's lunch speaker is Lexi Lessari from Missouri Eating Disorders. See you there!

This week's meeting is a review of our board meeting.

Today, Heather Kemper is joining us to discuss the Pursuit of Happiness. Also our two RYLArians, Cooper Richardson and Cameron Moyer, will share their experiences from RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards).

Missouri RYLA Academy Missouri RYLA Academy (RYLA) is a life-changing leadership training program for young men and women where leadership skills and principles are learned, developed and enhanced in an atmosphere of trust and respect. The purpose of RYLA is to encourage and assist current and potential youth leaders in

Yesterday, Maureen Cunningham of Brain Injury Association of Missouri join us for lunch. She shared how they are creating a better future for survivors and families through Support, Recreation, Education, and Advocacy. Thank you, Maureen!

FYI: we are not meeting today in celebration of America's 250th Birthday. 🇺🇸🎂🎉❤️🧨
See you next Wednesday

Today was busy at Rotary! We inducted new member, David Seward, from St. Charles Community College. Next, we presented David Hadden with a token of our appreciation in leading our club for the 2025-26 Rotary year and membership in the 711 Club. Room 711 was the location of the first Rotary meeting in 1905 Chicago. Finally, we inducted our new club officers: Arbuckle, President; Michael Padella, President-Elect; Barbara Be Drant, Treasurer; and Sue Cobb, Foundation Chair; and David Hadden, Immediate Past President.

This week's speaker is our District's own Brian Kohlberg. He will be talking about how our donations to The Rotary Foundation go good in City of Cottleville, Mo and City of Weldon Spring, Missouri and around the world.

Tomorrow, we will host Patrick Flynn of Columbia Threadneedle Investments. He will be giving us a market outlook and economic update. Let us know in the comments, if you would like to join us.

As part of our speaker series from Sheriff Scott Lewis in May, Jason Gray shared about his time with the Major Case Squad.
Interesting Facts:
• Started in 1965.
• Consists of 500 detectives.
• At least 22 detectives called on for any case.
• Only a training budget.
• Detectives' time/salary/expenses are covered by participating city departments.
• Call out lasts 5 days.
• Case closure over 80%!