Welcome to the Rotary Club of Kerrville

Are you an established professional who wants to make positive changes in your community and the world? Our members are dedicated people who share a passion for community service and friendship. We meet on Wednesdays at 12PM at Kerrville Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center, 201 Holdsworth Drive, Kerrville, TX  78028. Come Join Us!
Club News
Singing Waters Vineyards in Comfort, Texas, is a small but very successful local winery that has racked up some prestigious awards recently. Co-owner Missy Ivankovich, and wine maker Pat Johnson teamed up to talk to our Rotary club about their business.
 
 
 
Missy and her husband Andy were in the software business in San Antonio, and were ready for a change in 2018. They sold their business and wanted to move to the hill country for a simpler lifestyle to raise their four kids. While looking for property, they stumbled across 126 acres for sale that had a winery on it. They decided to buy it, move there, and try to improve on the wine produced. They had no experience in wine making other than enjoying an occassional glass.
 
They found Pat Johnson, an accomplished wine maker, who agreed to join them, and together they began work on making their new venture successful. They won several awards along the way as they developed their wines, and they were recently rewarded with a best in class award for their cabernet sauvignon ($90.00- $99.99) from the prestigious San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition (2025).
 
Missy and Pat generously donated a bottle of their best in class cabernet for our weekly wine give away. Leslie Rambin was wearing her pin when her name was called, and won the wine. She then asked Jeff Talarico to auction it off to our club, and Amber Thomason provided the winning bid of $500.00 that benefitted our club.
 
 
Woody Lockhart, Amber Thomason and Bill Tucker.
 
 
Missy Ivankovich, Amber Thomason, Pat Johnson and Leslie Rambin.
 
Singing Water Vineyards is located in Comfort, and is open Thursday through Sunday.  Singing Water Vineyards
George Eychner led us in a song for spring, sports and wine.
 
 
 
 
Grey Faldyn provided more information about the Centennial Celebration of our club next year. There will be a club project benefitting a local non profit, so if you have a project in mind for this, please contact Greg over the next couple of weeks.
 
 
Scholarships awards were presented at Tivy High School on April 30, and our Rotary club awarded seven (7) two thousand dollar scholarships at the awards ceremony. This is a great example of how our club fund raisers benefit local students in their pursuit of college or trade school.
 
The Veterans Breakfast was a great success, with about 93 Veterans and 20 Rotarians attending.
 
The annual Picnic will be May 7 at the River Star Arts and Event Park. This takes the place of the regular noon meeting that day.
 
Josh the Otter presentations are ongoing at several local elementary schools, and this teaches water safety to school age students. Please consider volunteering for this valuable community service. Stockton Williams announced that for the Starkey Elementary presentations, the times have changed to 1:30 and 2:10 instead of in the morning, due to other scheduled field trips.
 
The annual Citizenship Awards program is June 4. 
Please keep the following members in your prayers:
 
Woody Lockhart had surgery recently, and his cancer treatments are going well. He attended our last meeting and has a good attitude and sense of humor, especially about wine.
 
 
 

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Speakers
Dalton Rice
May 21, 2025
The Water Resources Discussion
Dr. James "Bud" Wright
May 28, 2025
The Elimination of the Boll Weevel and the Screw Worm
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Jun 04, 2025
Citizenship Awards
Annalise Schoenning
Jun 11, 2025
Rotary Corry Meela Peace Conference
Tom Hamilton
Jun 18, 2025
Our Declaration of Independence
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Mailing Address:

Rotary Club of Kerrville
P. O. Box 295335
Kerrville, TX 78029
kerrvillerotary@gmail.com