SHS Senior, Kiernan Baker was selected the Youth Rotarian of the Month by the Seward Rotary Club and was honored and recognized at the recent Seward Rotary Club meeting on Wednesday, March 20 th at noon at the Jones Bank Auditorium in Seward. He is the son of Noelle and Brett Baker of Seward. He was introduced and presented with a packet of Seward and the Seward Rotary Club, a Rotary Club banner and a Book Scholarship.
The annual Seward Rotary Club “Service” Celebration will be held on Saturday, May 18th, 2019 at the Seward County Fairgrounds Ag Pavilion and feature Nebraska celebrity and football hero Matt Davison as the featured speaker. Also honored at the dinner will be Clayton Kent, recipient of the Seward Rotary Club “Service Above Self” Award and Kathy Broeker, recipient of the Seward Rotary Club’s ”Wayne Tanderup” Award.
The celebration begins with a “Social” Time from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm, and features the opening of the Rotary Club Silent Auction (open until 8:30 pm). Matt Davison will be present throughout the social hour to convers, give autographs and pose for photos. A special “Husker” Windsor Loin Dinner will begin at 6:00 pm followed by the presentation of Matt Davison, former Nebraska Football Star and current Associate Athletic Director for football. At 7:30 pm a “Live Auction” will be held to assist in funding the club’s desired funding goals, followed by the presentation of the “Service Above Self” award to Clayton Kent –longtime local businessman and founder of the “Cross Makers” and the “Wayne Tanderup” award to Kathy Broeker.
Seward Rotarians will be attending the York Rotary Centennial Celebration on April 13th. The event will be held at the Holtus Center in York.
Tickets are $35 and due March 29. Please let Clark Kolterman know if you would like to attend as he is making arrangements with York. We plan to donate a tree to York, just like we did 25 years ago!
Interestingly, 25 years ago, Shelia Benes, Ken Schmieding and Kolterman attended their anniversary and presented a tree and then had to go back and plant it!
Profile: A vine ideaHeidi KühnRotary Club of San FranciscoHeidi Kühn arrived in Utsunomiya, Japan, in 1975, a few months after the end of the Vietnam War. She was a Rotary Youth Exchange
