Events

We will recognize our Quarterly 1st Responders 

Roxanne is the director of Keep Copperas Cove Beautiful. She will update us on KCCB's accomplishments and upcoming projects. Please join us!

Both 1 hr & 3 hr avaialble - for more information rotarydistrict5870.org

To register - rotarydistrict5870.org

Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers is named after its founder’s beloved yellow Lab, and the restaurant has long been committed to supporting pet welfare organizations in its Communities. Raising Cane’s partnered with the City of Copperas Cove to sponsor the new playground for four-legged friends living in the area. Shaun Smith is a Restaurant Partner for Raising Cane's and will talk to us about the first dog park it has built in Texas. Located in City Park, 

The Rotary Club of Copperas Cove shares Rotary International's vision of improving our community by focusing on seven areas. One of those areas of focus is Basic Education and Literacy. In support of that goal, our club donates a dictionary to each Copperas Cove Independent School District third grade student and their teacher. Savannah Taylor will provide an update on the impact our annual program has had on the district's students over the years. Please join us at noon. We meet at the Kempner Brick Oven.

To register - rotarydistrict5870.org

The Copperas Cove Rotary Club recently contributed funding to help an Eagle Scout project upgrade a small playground at the local Families in Crisis facility.Juana Wright will share information with us about Families in Crisis, their mission and programs. 

Dr. Russell Porter is the Vice President for Research, Economic Development, and Innovation at Texas A and M University, Central Texas.The Forge Research Park will provide a place where A&M Central Texas faculty, staff, and students, as well as Fort Hood researchers like Operational Test Command, can attract relevant industries to the Central Texas area to collaborate on research with them.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in February 1909. Killeen Branch #6189 was established in July 1970. Pleasse join us in welcoming current President Tanika Driver-Moutrie as this week's speaker. Tanika will provide an overview of the organization, including progress and goals. 

Angela Martin is Curator of the Texas Heritage and Railroad Museum located in Temple, Texas. She will provide an overview of the museum and share information about their current exhibit featuring Quanah Parker. Those of you who studied Texas History in the seventh grade may remember studying about Mr. Parker and that Quanah, Texas is the county seat of Hardeman County.

Quanah Parker was was a war leader of the Kwahadi ("Antelope") band of the Comanche Nation. He was likely born into the Nokoni band of Tabby-nocca and grew up among the Kwahadis, the son of Kwahadi Comanche chief Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker, an Anglo-American who had been abducted as a nine-year-old child and assimilated into the Nokoni tribe.Quanah Parker was never elected chief by his people but was appointed by the federal government as principal chief of the entire Comanche Nation. He became a primary emissary of southwest indigenous Americans to the United States legislature. In civilian life, he gained wealth as a rancher, settling near Cache, Oklahoma.