Tag: Rotary Club

High schoolers spoke to Iola’s Rotary Club Thursday about their experience at RYLA, Rotary’s youth leadership training program, held earlier this fall in Salvation Army’s Camp Heart O’ Hills in Welling, Okla. Griffin Westervelt and…

William “Pat” Patton, new administrator for Saint Luke’s Allen County Regional Hospital and Anderson County Hospital, addresses questions from Iola Rotarians at the club’s Thursday meeting. Patton is originally from Oklahoma and obtained his master…

Riverside Park will be bustling this weekend as Iola Rotary Club hosts its Annual Smokin’ Hot Cars and BBQ event. This year is the first time the organization has split away from the Allen County…

Iola’s Rotary Club strengthened ties with close friends in South America this week, writing the latest chapter in a story of friendship that spans countries and more than three decades of service. Five Rotarians from…

In the last moments of Monday evening’s Iola council meeting, Mark Peters announced that he would be resigning from his seat on the council. Peters said the decision was made from necessity.  “My wife is…

Russell Stover’s Iola plant manager, Andy Darley, provided Iola Rotary members with a bit of personal background and an overview of the Iola facility Thursday afternoon. A native of northern England, Darley spent the vast…

My Christmas wish would be to have Iola officials hop on board the recycling wagon to prevent our Allen County Landfill from filling up with recyclable materials. As a business that handles voluminous amounts of…

It’s harder than it looks to clear off a grocery store shelf, Donna Kaehr admitted Saturday morning. Kaehr, working on behalf of the Iola Community Pantry, was the grand prize winner at Saturday’s fourth annual…

It would be impossible to think of Harry Clubine anywhere but on the farm. He was born the son of a dairy farmer, rising every morning at the crack of dawn — “or earlier,” he…

The Allen County Fair week ended with the livestock auction on Sunday night.