Events

*** Packing HOPE Kits for the National Breast Cancer Foundation. ***

Support Services are a tangible way to show breast cancer patients that we are there every step of their journey. A huge part of this support is the NBCF HOPE Kit Program. We will help reach the goal of packing 2,000 HOPE Kits on one day.

When the program was started 1,500 breast cancer patients were surveyed and asked what items would be helpful while going through treatment. NBCF created the HOPE Kit, a care package filled with thoughtful items, which patients have found to be comforting and encouraging while undergoing breast cancer treatment.

For a second time this Rotary year, we will recognize and award grants to five deserving non-profit organizations.

Andrew Smith is the People & Culture Manager for IKEA Frisco.  In this role, he serves a partner for all Frisco coworkers for any human resources needs, including training, development, coworker relations and engagement.  His passions also include Equity, Diversity & Inclusion; sustainability; and maintaining IKEA Frisco’s status as an excellent place to work.  In his three years with IKEA Frisco, Andrew has also served as Loyalty Manager, overseeing community partnerships, marketing, sustainability, communications, and coworker engagement.  Prior to IKEA, Andrew spent over a decade serving in the public sector, primarily with the City of Plano in the Arts, Culture & Heritage division, with a focus on community relations, learning & development, and operations.

John is an international, multi-award-winning Author of Historical and Contemporary Western Fiction, accomplished screenwriter, and actor. He recently retired from a career in law enforcement that spanned 41 years. ​His professional writing career began in the sports industry, where he penned articles for national magazines and online publications.

He drew literary inspiration from Louis L'Amour, Robert B. Parker, C. J. Box, and Lee Child. His passion for history and the western genre inspired him to write numerous short stories and a trilogy of classic western novels set in Texas. ​ His theatrical influences include actors John Wayne, James Stewart, Clint Eastwood, Tom Hanks and directors John Ford, Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, and Taylor Sheridan. John began his acting career appearing in real crime stories and law enforcement training videos. He recently appeared in the hit Paramount series 1883, the Lifetime Network series Text Me When You Get Home, and the forthcoming film A Dark Destiny. John is a member of; The Authors Guild, Western Writers of America, Western Fictioneers, Wyoming Writers Inc., Oklahoma Writers Federation and the Working Ranch Cowboys Association.

A firm believer in active learning, Library Director Shelley Holley, focused the mission of the Frisco Library to enrich lives by inspiring intellect, curiosity, and imagination into a launch pad of innovation for the future. Rising out of a former rocket factory and lifting off into the home for a 156,000sf new $62MM library, Ms. Holley’s team support entrepreneurs, students, and the children who dream about the future. A veteran of library building projects, Ms. Holley received her MLS from the University of North Texas and continues to shatter the stereotypes of what libraries should be, thinking instead of what they could be. She and her husband Robbin have made Frisco their home since 1999.    

A native of Vicksburg, MS, he moved to Texas to attend Baylor University.  His career has been spent entirely at community organizations focused in some way on the provision of services to the aging in the community.  The past twenty years has been with hospice organizations in areas of fundraising and volunteer management.  Currently, he is Director of Benevolent Services at Freedom Hospice.  Through his experience both personally and professionally with hospice, he has become passionate about educating families about the benefits of hospice and dispelling some of the myths and misconceptions about hospice care so that when they are faced with end-of-life decisions about loved ones, they can make informed choices.

Jon has been a member of the Southlake Rotary Club for just over 3 years and is excited and humbled to be serving as its President during the 2022-2023 year.  As a Rotarian, he has enjoyed learning about the amazing work that people are doing in our community and even world-wide to help improve the lives of others.  In Rotary, he has found a group of like-minded people wanting to build a better world.

Jon met, Judi, his wife of 15 years on E-Harmony.  They have 2 children – the four legged kind –Corgis, Winnie and Bentley.  In addition to spending time with the dogs, Jon and Judi enjoy cooking, working in their back yard and travel. They are members of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth.   Jon is a Christmas fanatic – an entire room in their house is taken up year -round by a Department 56 Dickens Village scene.  Over the past 4 years, Jon has identified and portrayed his alternate persona - Santa Claus.  He is even a graduate of the world’s longest running Santa Claus School, the Charles W. Howard Santa School, in Midland Michigan.