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Kansas City International Airport
Aug 17, 2018
Patrick Klein Patrick Klein became Director of Aviation for the Kansas City Aviation Department June 1, 2016. In this role Klein oversees all aspects of the management, development, operation and maintenance of Kansas City International Airport and Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport. Klein is responsible for 550 employees and annual revenues of over $100 million. |
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Aug 24, 2018
Ashley Beard-Fosnow serves as the Executive Director of American Public Square. American Public Square is a nonpartisan nonprofit that seeks to change the tone and quality of public discourse. They organize programs that feature expert panelists and audience members with opposing views talking to each other, civilly, about controversial topics. Though these discussions may not always change minds, everyone walks away with a better understanding of the other side, a key step toward respect, compromise, and resolution. |
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A Clinical Perspective on Alzheimer's
Aug 31, 2018
Eric Vidoni, PT, PhD is director of the Outreach, Recruitment and Education Core for the University of Kansas Alzheimer's Disease Center and a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Dr. Vidoni got his Bachelor's of Science in Kinesiology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2001. In 2008, he completed his MSPT and PhD as part of a joint curriculum at the University of Kansas. With Dr. Swerdlow, he oversees the Kansas Dementia and Aging Research Training Program and regularly lectures to student physical therapists on the brain, motor control, aging and dementia. As core director, he organizes dementia-focused educational outreach opportunities for healthcare providers and the lay public throughout the region. Dr. Vidoni also serves as the Scientific Director of the Physical Health Interventions Team (PHIT). PHIT serves as a clinical trials unit for lifestyle studies (primarily diet and exercise). By using the PHIT, investigators at KUMC can draw on over 30 year of collective experience with community and lab-based exercise and lifeystyle modification trials. |
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Sep 07, 2018
Jeff Shackelford is the Executive Director of Digital Sandbox KC, a proof-of-concept center designed to help move early-stage entrepreneurs from concept-to-commercialization. It is a regional approach to identifying very early technologies, which, with the right assistance from industry experts and seasoned entrepreneurs, can be advanced toward commercial viability. The mission of the Digital Sandbox is to connect innovation to industry with the goal of producing breakthrough products and services that have significant impact on the digital landscape. Since launching in 2013, Digital Sandbox has funded development projects for 100 local, early-stage start-ups and has assisted in securing over $52M in equity investment for 70 Sandbox companies. These companies have created over 600 new Kansas City area jobs. Mr. Shackelford has a unique and diverse professional background with a rare combination of Fortune 100 enterprise experience coupled with entrepreneurial, start-up and early stage ventures that includes a successful track record in capital fund-raising of over $500M. Mr. Shackelford holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Kansas.
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Restoration House
Sep 28, 2018
Restoration House, a faith-based, long-term residential recovery program for sex trafficking survivors in Kansas City, has big dreams to reach a new sector of trafficking victims: minors. It is estimated that each year 1,650 kids in the Greater Kansas City Metro Area are victims of sexual exploitation. This staggering reality comes from The Renewal Forum, a non-profit agency who participates in policy, research, and advocacy to promote respect for human dignity on the issues of commercial sexual exploitation. The Department of Justice commissioned a study to determine the risk of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (DMST). The findings indicated that often key cities studied in the US, the Kansas City Metro area was number two in terms of risk for DMST. Sadly, most of these children are never properly identified or helped and they enter adult life as victims of sex trafficking, having suffered unimaginable violence and trauma. Our mission is to help minors recover and live fully restored lives through our holistic healing programs. Most recently, 103 youth that were being groomed by sexual predators online have been identified and connected with appropriate law enforcement and/or counseling resources through the prevention programs of AwareKC, one of our partners in fighting DMST. Currently, there is no residential facility dedicated to domestic minor sex trafficking victims in or near Kansas City. Restoration House aims to change that by opening a “Home for Minors”. Dr. Rodney Hammer is the Founder of Restoration House of Greater Kansas City and the current Chairman of the Board. Dr. Hammer is also the Executive Director of Missions for Blue River-Kansas City Baptist Association. He served for 18 years with the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board. He spent 10 years in China and Southeast Asia, and another 8 years as the Regional Leader for Central & Eastern Europe. Dr. Hammer holds a Masters of Divinity and a Doctor of Ministry from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. Hammer and his wife, Debbie have one son, Luke. They reside in Lee’s Summit, MO.
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International Relations Council
Oct 05, 2018
The International Relations Council (IRC) brings a global perspective to our community through strategic partnerships with businesses, universities, community organizations, and K-12 schools. We bring world leaders and dignitaries to the metro region, host forums for high-school students to interact with and learn from foreign-policy experts, and create opportunities for area business leaders to strengthen relationships abroad. We believe that by promoting global awareness and understanding, we support and strengthen our community. The International Relations Council (IRC)- A Kansas City nonprofit organization and a member of the World Affairs Councils of America, the IRC works in partnership with businesses, universities, community organizations, and K-12 schools to bring a global perspective to our community. We bring world leaders and dignitaries to the metro region, host forums for high-school students to interact with and learn from foreign-policy experts, and create opportunities for area business leaders to strengthen relationships abroad. We invite you to join us for an upcoming event and see how you can get involved with Kansas City's global community. |
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Oct 06, 2018 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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EyeVerify
Oct 12, 2018
EyeVerify’s biometric security technology uses a smartphone’s camera to verify a person’s identity by analyzing the whites of the eye and blood vessels, as well as microfeatures outside the eye to create what’s known as an eyeprint. The eyeprint becomes a key that replaces traditional passwords, particularly with banking-related needs. |
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Oct 16, 2018 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Volunteer at Harvesters as part of the District "Food Fight"
Plaza Rotarians join the Urban Rangers at Harvesters for a Sort & Repack event
Tuesday, October 16th, 6-8 PM
We have only 10 volunteers to date, and welcome more. Contact Paul Temme (paulctemme@gmail.com) or Casey Culbertson (culbertson.casey@gmail.com), to sign up and get details.
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Architecture Institute of America /KC Chapter
Oct 26, 2018
Equity in the Workplace - AIA Kansas City, a local chapter for the American Institute of Architects, is stepping up to address access to advancement in the profession. Samantha McCloud and Shahad Sadeq, co-chairs of the organization’s Equity in Architecture committee, will share their stories on validating the conversation on diversity & inclusion, using research to activate progress, and implementing strategies that work to improve equity in the workplace for all. |
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Oct 26, 2018 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
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Oct 27, 2018 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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VFW and WW1 Centennial
Nov 02, 2018
Debra Anderson was sworn in on Monday, October 17, 2016, as the newest Commissioner to the United States World War One Centennial Commission. She was appointed to the position by the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) organization, where she is the Quartermaster General. The swearing-in took place in a small ceremony hosted by the VFW National Headquarters in Kansas City. The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission is a Congressional Commission, created to provide public outreach, education programs, and commemorative events for America’s involvement in World War One. Congress also authorized the Commission to create the new National World War One Memorial in Washington D.C. Centennial Commission members are appointed by Congress, by the President of the United States, and by the American Legion and the VFW. |
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Eidson & Partners
Nov 09, 2018
From our start in 1995, we have focused on helping clients that are trying to do something new. Our team has been involved with the marketing, and in many cases development, of 200+ new products. Our client list includes Microsoft, Sprint, H&R Block, Smith Electric Vehicles, Clifford Development, the Propane Education & Research Council and important agriculture groups including MN Farm Bureau and the National Pork Board. Beginning in 2011, we began work on a Kansas City-based business accelerator and launched the organization, SparkLabKC, with an initial class of ten companies in 2013, followed by a second call in 2014 and a third class in 2015. Business strategies are the focus of our business and we have a history of doing whatever it takes to get a new product or venture to market. Along the way, we have convinced a number of clients to suspend work on a product and retool, or completely abandon their concept. |
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Nov 30, 2018
Kip Strauss is manager of the transportation planning department in HNTB’s Kansas City Metro office. He has extensive experience working on and managing transportation planning and traffic engineering projects, including multimodal transportation studies, highway and arterial corridor studies, environmental studies, traffic impact evaluations, travel demand modeling studies, and transportation master plans. Mr. Strauss was business operations manager for the Kansas City metropolitan office from 2012 to 2014. |
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Largest Social Security Fraud Scheme in American history
Dec 21, 2018
Trey will discuss the investigation and prosecution of Eric C. Conn, an Eastern Kentucky Social Security disability attorney who conspired with health care providers and Social Security administrative law judges to defraud the Social Security Administration of an estimated $550 million in disability payments. This case involved the largest Social Security fraud scheme in American history. Assistant U.S. Attorney Trey Alford is a federal prosecutor in Kansas City, Missouri where he has prosecuted federal cases for the past ten years. Prior to serving as a federal prosecutor, Trey worked for two years as an Associate at Shook, Hardy & Bacon, a large Kansas City law firm, where he defended pharmaceutical manufacturers in products liability litigation. Prior to his stint in private practice, Trey served for seven years in the U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps attaining the rank of Major before resigning his commission.
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Jan 05, 2019 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
As part of our District Grant application, the Plaza Rotary will have 5 work Saturdays at the Urban Ranger Corps, 5908 Swope Pkwy, Kansas City, MO 64130. Show up anytime between 8AM and Noon, ready to put in some Sweat Equity, to help make some updates to the Conference Room!
Jan. 5, 12, 19, 26, and Feb. 2, 2019. If you have a tool belt, bring it. If you don't, show up anyway and Mindy will give you something to do!!
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Jan 11, 2019
Cindy Olson began her career in an oil and gas accounting position with Koch Industries in Wichita Kansas. From those humble beginnings she found herself on the fast track of a small energy business that over the following 20 plus years mushroomed into her role as the head of Human Resources and a member of the 20 person Executive Committee of Enron. By the end of 2000 Enron was the 7th largest public company in the world. She was among the top 150 executives of those 7 companies and 1 of only 18 women on those executive management teams. |
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Jan 12, 2019 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
As part of our District Grant application and award, the Plaza Rotary will have 5 work Saturdays at the Urban Ranger Corps, 5908 Swope Pkwy, Kansas City, MO 64130. Show up anytime between 8AM and Noon, ready to put in some Sweat Equity, to help make some updates to the Conference Room!
Jan. 5, 12, 19, 26, and Feb. 2, 2019. If you have a tool belt, bring it. If you don't, show up anyway and Mindy will give you something to do!!
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Royals and Writing
Jan 18, 2019
Steve Physioc has been telling stories for the past forty years. He has been a play-by-play announcer for football, baseball, and basketball for both college and the pros. Physioc will begin his eighth season as the radio-tv broadcaster for the Kansas City Royals in 2019, and also works College Basketball games for Fox Sports. He won an Emmy in 2013 for his play by play of Royals baseball. In his spare time, Physioc has taken up writing, releasing his first novel, The Walls of Lucca in April of 2018; It's a love story/historical fiction about two families struggling to produce a great wine during Italy's dark days of WW1 and the rise of Fascism. The sequel, Above the Walls, will be released February 1, 2019. Steve and wife Stace, have two children, Ryan and Kevin, and three grandchildren. They make their home in Stilwell, Kansas.
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Jan 19, 2019 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
As part of our District Grant application and award, the Plaza Rotary will have 5 work Saturdays at the Urban Ranger Corps, 5908 Swope Pkwy, Kansas City, MO 64130. Show up anytime between 8AM and Noon, ready to put in some Sweat Equity, to help make some updates to the Conference Room!
Jan. 5, 12, 19, 26, and Feb. 2, 2019. If you have a tool belt, bring it. If you don't, show up anyway and Mindy will give you something to do!!
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Jan 26, 2019 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
As part of our District Grant application and award, the Plaza Rotary will have 5 work Saturdays at the Urban Ranger Corps, 5908 Swope Pkwy, Kansas City, MO 64130. Show up anytime between 8AM and Noon, ready to put in some Sweat Equity, to help make some updates to the Conference Room!
Jan. 5, 12, 19, 26, and Feb. 2, 2019. If you have a tool belt, bring it. If you don't, show up anyway and Mindy will give you something to do!!
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Feb 02, 2019 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
As part of our District Grant application and awarad, the Plaza Rotary will have 5 work Saturdays at the Urban Ranger Corps, 5908 Swope Pkwy, Kansas City, MO 64130. Show up anytime between 8AM and Noon, ready to put in some Sweat Equity, to help make some updates to the Conference Room!
Jan. 5, 12, 19, 26, and Feb. 2, 2019. If you have a tool belt, bring it. If you don't, show up anyway and Mindy will give you something to do!!
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Malawi Children's Village Update
Feb 08, 2019
Our Plaza Rotary Club has initiated a number of projects for Malawi Children's Village (MCV) in Malawi, Central Africa, by providing seed money that prompted significant funding from District 6040. Projects included a needs assessment that was followed by funding for latrines at 8 different primary schools, an educational program for select teachers which introduced new methods and is being spread to their peers, introduction of solar panels which provide sites where children can study at night, and funding to provide tools and machinery for MCV's vocational program. The goal now is to provide treadle pumps that will enhance farmers to dramatically increase their yields. From Bill Schmidt: My connection to Malawi is that I spent two years there in the Peace Corps working to prevent malnutrition. I have maintained a close relationship with a family in Malawi over the last 50 years, visiting them and hosting two young men who were babies when I was there. It gave me direction for a career in public health; I have served as a local Public Health Director, and worked for two state health departments. I also was involved in clinical medicine as a Physician Assistant in the health depts and with Gastroenterology physicians. |