It was an honor to visit 3 clubs across the district during the month of January.
The Princeton Rotary Club is busy planning for their annual turkey call fundraiser, and club President Matthew Kron, who is a state circuit judge, showed off the beautiful Mercer County courthouse.
Moberly does a unique railroad days event each year, and is extremely active in their community. They have some delicious food at Central Christian College of the Bible. They may not be quite as rambunctious as their neighbors to the West in Huntsville, but it’s a great group!
Maryville’s club is sponsoring a district grant scholar for $2,500. Avery will be traveling to South Africa to participate in a disease prevention effort at the Retreat Clinic, a government clinic which serves low income individuals. The Maryville club is also putting on the second annual Bloomin’ Peony Tour on May 17-18.
Missouri’s statewide Rotary learning team, the Show Me Rotary Council, is busy planning a
GREAT Presidents-elect and Presidents-nominee training seminar at the Holiday Inn Executive Center in Columbia on March 28 and 29. If your club’s leaders have not yet signed up, please do so at
https://showmerotary.org/.
Stay tuned for more info about how you and your club can get involved with the Lock it for Love Gun Safety program. Janet Gremaud from the Kirksville Thousand Hills Club is chairing this important initiative. District 6040 also committed $20,000 in January towards a Global Grant sponsored by the Unionville Club to support amputees in Belize.
Be sure to mark your calendars for a District Conference that no Rotarian will want to miss, 5/30 and 5/31 at A.T. Still University in Kirksville! We will keep updating the district conference’s webpage at
https://rotary6040.org/sitepage/2025-district-conference. Registration is not yet live but should be soon. The hotel info is on the site. The district conference will feature the
Shoes for Orphan Souls Roll Call (can we get an “all time high”?),
District 6040’s Rotary Foundation Legacy Campaign celebration, great speakers, breakouts for Rotarians,
a literacy service project to benefit little free libraries across the district, the annual business meeting, and a lot more!
Thank you for everything you do, every day, in your clubs, your communities, our region, and across the world.
Erik McGuire
District 6040 Governor 2024-2025
Rotary Club of St. Joseph East
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