The Rotary Club of Florence, Kentucky is pleased to welcome Deana Izzo of the Boone County Schools to their December 10th Meeting. Deana Izzo has lived and worked in Boone County for the past 15 years. As a transplant from the Southwestern part of Kentucky, she has enjoyed serving the Boone County School District in the role of a Guidance…
Read MoreThe Rotary Club of Florence, Kentucky which serves all of Boone County is teaming up with the four high schools of Boone County to tackle food insecurity at the Friday night, October 12th football games. Rotarians will be collecting donations at the Boone County High School at Cooper High School game and likewise at the Ryle High School at Conner…
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Boone County Schools hopes to enroll every high school student in the district this fall in a voluntary drug testing program with rewards for just saying “No.” The district will launch Drug Free Clubs of America in all its schools this fall. The voluntary program is the latest iteration of efforts to discourage students from using drugs. “Drug Free Clubs…
Read MoreFLORENCE – Service learning sounded like a superb world class education strategy to Superintendent Randy Poe until sixth-graders at Camp Ernest Middle School proposed a beehive pollination project. When Poe endorsed the project, they told him “we have to build them and place them on the roof,” he recalled. “I’m sitting there thinking … OK, this is really great. What…
Read MoreFLORENCE – C. Ed Massey is trying to bring the collective weight of local Kentucky school boards and state school board associations across the country to bear on education legislation and funding. “How powerful we could be if we could bring the things we all believe in together before Congress,” he told members of the Florence Rotary Club on Monday,…
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