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Karin F***** is a long-time member of St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church in Lawrence, KS, who served for many years as worship leader, member of the praise team, coordinator of their Family Promise program rotation, and in various other capacities as needed. She worked at Lawrence Memorial Hospital for 23 years as an Emergency nurse, and later developed their Patient Advocacy program and served as Patient Advocate for 4 years, before moving to Nepal in 2014. In Nepal, she is the head of her organization’s Women at Risk Initiative, and fights human trafficking through awareness education and empowerment programming aimed at strengthening education and income opportunities for girls, women, and the most vulnerable in society.  

Current programs include an ongoing scholarship program for 75 at-risk village children in 2 villages, a women’s group who earn income making washable, reusable, eco-friendly sanitary pad kits for free distribution to girls in the village schools, a “Basics of Business” course that is helping women in the village start small businesses of their own, and more. Her mission is to create a safe Nepal, where people can live lives free of human trafficking, and other forms of marginalization and exploitation. She also has a passion for sharing the light and love of Jesus to those around her, through her life and work.

Working for NASA from 1967 to 2010, Alan had many very interesting experiences.  He will share those with Newton Rotary via Zoom.

Alan is a member of the Space Center Rotary Club and has been for the last 40 years.  He is very active in Rotary Youth Exchange and has led the Youth Exchange Choir at every SCRYE Youth Exchange conference for many years.  

A great guy and dedicated Rotarian, Alan is the father of 5 and grandfather of 12 along with his lovely wife Gaye.

This will be a very interesting program!

Cody has been a State trooper 19 years. He is a member of special operations criminal interdiction unit who has seized over 3000 pounds of illegal narcotics including Kansas' single largest methamphetamine load of 240 pounds. Cody Interdicted 3 abducted/kidnapped children. He teaches criminal interdiction at the state patrol academy. He is a former Bearcat operator, has had 17 Khp commander's commendations, was named Kansas narcotics officer of the year 2019, the Kansas chiefs of police valor recipient the last 4 years, the 2015 heroes of the heartland award recipient and the 2020 USIC national counter-narcotics force enabler award which included a trip to the White House.

Child trafficking is a big problem affecting a very vulnerable population.  Rotary has gotten real involved in doing everything they can to attach this problem.

Steve Jacobs is a Fellow of the Royal Institution, recently retired chief scientist of Discovery Channel and National Geographic Television. He is currently the lead science investigator for the Faraday Research Institute, working on nano-aqueous ozone chemistry for the United Nations Sustainability Development Goal Project. Steve is partners with 21 Albemarle, LLC, a subsidiary of Deans Inc, a company based in Hawaii and operator of scores of Ace Hardware, Ben Franklin Crafts and other retail businesses who have purchased 15 acres of land across from Park Aerospace and are in the process of building the first 50,000 sf warehouse with plans for future expansion up to 150,000sf. Steve will share with us some of the details.

Very well known WIchita businessman Scott Schwindaman will be here tlaking about the business of breeding and trainng Clydesdale horses.  Weather permitting - there will he a horse outside we can look at.