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2023 Fish Fry April 21 Fried Fish and Family Fun Friday April 21 Fried fish and a variety of music from the Jolie and Sunny Burgess will flow all evening, 5-8 pm, at the 10^th annual Cleburne Rotary Club Foundation Fish Fry Friday, April 21 at the Cleburne Conference Center. For some, the Lone Star Reptile display is the reason to attend. Earl Jones, owner, and his crew will be adding a big tortoise and more large snakes to the collection of reptiles that will be on display. Guests can interact with the reptiles and learn about caring for them. Members of the Cleburne High School Interact Club will be painting faces. Drawing for door prizes and complementary gift bags per family. Without these sponsors we would not be able to serve Cleburne with needed projects and support others; Taylor Insurance, SACHEM, Alyssa Dotson-Edward Jones, and Technical Chemical Company, plus Childress & Shanklin, Grandview Bank, Pinnacle Bank, Jeff England Motor Company, Gillian, Wharram & Co., P.C., Johnson Couty Electric Cooperative, Johnson County Special Utilities District, Benage Dental Care, Amani Massage, Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for kids over 3, and are available at the Cleburne Chamber of Commerce, from Cleburne Rotary members, and at the door on Friday, April 21 at the Cleburne Conference Center. There is a raffle for a $2,000 Amazon gift card (tickets are $20 each). The I-Pad raffle valued at $500 (tickets are $20 each) The Fun Spa Package raffle valued at $750 (tickets are $5 each) includes a SkinPen micro-needling treatment, and an Inner Beauty IV treatment from McKenzie Family Medicine & MedSpa in Burleson, a POLA Light tooth whitening kit from Adam Bond DDS, and an Amani Spa gift card provided by Angela Goulding – Keller Williams (tickets are $5. Each). Profits from the event and the raffles go support new city park equipment, local scholarships, Adopt-A-School, Flags Across Cleburne, Interact Club, global Youth Exchange students, and local Interact Clubs Read more...	2023 Fish Fry April 21	Mollie Mims	2023-04-21 05:00:00Z
Lunch at Sting Bistro Lunch Meeting at Sting Bistro Read more...	Lunch at Sting Bistro	Mollie Mims	2021-10-28 05:00:00Z
Humane Society of North Texas saves pets’ lives Posted on Feb 22, 2018 “We never turn away an animal in need.” That’s what Peggy Brown, community outreach coordinator for the Humane Society of North Texas, told members of the Cleburne Rotary Club on Thursday at the Cleburne Conference Center. Founded in 1905, the HSNT is the oldest animal welfare organization in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Read more...	Humane Society of North Texas saves pets’ lives	By Ashley Rose	2018-02-22 06:00:00Z
Chadwick: Dinosaur bones can teach us Posted on Feb 01, 2018 Dinosaurs — or at least their bones — were roaming the halls of the Cleburne Conference Center on Thursday. Southwestern Adventist University biological sciences professor Arthur “Art” Chadwick spoke to Cleburne Rotary Club members about the university’s dinosaur museum and how they use 21st century technology and innovation to research dinosaur bones during its weekly luncheon. Read more...	Chadwick: Dinosaur bones can teach us		2018-02-01 06:00:00Z
Service Above Self Dr. Tony Torres was awarded the prestigious Service Above Self Award for 2016. Tony was recognized for his relief work that he leads for Rotary.	Service Above Self		2017-04-20 05:00:00Z
Randy Elmore & Student Fiddle Players Rotary had a real Hoedown when Randy and his Students played some great Fiddle	Randy Elmore & Student Fiddle Players	David Barkley	2017-03-16 05:00:00Z
Cleburne Interact club Christmas Parade Float	Cleburne Interact club Christmas Parade Float		2017-01-15 06:00:00Z
Santa and his Security Detail Kids getting fun gifts and making crafts with Santa at the 2016 Rotary Christmas	Santa and his Security Detail		2017-01-05 00:00:00Z
Rotary Rose Parade Float Read more...	Rotary Rose Parade Float		2017-01-05 00:00:00Z
Rotarians recognize Police, Fire and Teacher with Vocational Excellence Award Goats, clowns, dogs and robots figured into the Cleburne Rotary Club’s Thursday luncheon as the club presented vocational service awards to a Cleburne fireman, policeman and a Cleburne ISD teacher. Members of the award winners’ respective professions nominated the recipients who were recognized for their efforts above and beyond duty’s call. The recipients included Cleburne Fire Department Engineer Danny Wilson, Cleburne Police Officer Charles “Trey” West and Smith Middle School sixth-grade science teacher Roel Pena. Read more...	Rotarians recognize Police, Fire and Teacher with Vocational Excellence Award		2016-12-21 00:00:00Z
Blackland Prairie Raptor Center visits Rotarians Posted by Matt Smith on Feb 18, 2016 Cleburne Rotarians enjoyed a rare up close and personal look at owls, kestrels and hawks on Thursday. The birds of prey at times, in between occasional bathroom breaks, appeared just as interested in the Rotarians who showed up to see them. Read more...	Blackland Prairie Raptor Center visits Rotarians	Matt Smith	2016-02-19 00:00:00Z
Rotary Ragin' Roundup Posted by Dale Gosser on May 02, 2011 The Cleburne Rotary Club will conduct its first Rotary’s Ragin’ Roundup fundraiser and community celebration from 4-8 p.m. May 27, at the Cleburne Conference Center. The event, a fish fry for the Cleburne and Johnson County area, will include a Harley-Davidson motorcycle raffle, a 32-inch TV raffle, bounce houses and face painting for kids,live music by Jimmy Jones and others, a motorcycle show, the Cleburne Police Department’s SWAT Team vehicle and a Cleburne Fire Department truck and slide pole for the kids. A portion of a twisted steel-beam located in one of the World Trade Center buildings will also be on display. The beam will eventually be part of a firefighter’s park and 9/11 memorial in Cleburne when Cleburne’s Fire Station No. 4 is constructed on the north side of town. Some of the funds raised at the event will be go to the construction of the park. Cost for the all-you-can-eat fried fish fundraiser is $10 each for adult meal tickets or $10 for two children. Tickets for the Harley-Davidson raffle are $50 each and tickets for the TV are $5 each. Participants do not have to be present to win. A maximum of 500 Harley tickets will be sold. Members of the Harley Owners Group will present a Harley-Davidson show. All funds raised go to Cleburne Rotary Club programs, such as scholarships,dictionaries for third graders throughout Cleburne ISD and some area county schools, academic achievement awards for Cleburne ISD students,computer projects to Mexico and water filtration projects across the world. For more information or to purchase tickets, contact Dale Gosser at 817-558-2855, ext. 2331, or e-mail rotaryharleyraffle@gmail.com.	Rotary Ragin' Roundup	Dale Gosser	2011-05-03 00:00:00Z
Club Membership-92 Posted by Dale Gosser on Mar 25, 2011 Membership Matters Read more...	Club Membership-92	Dale Gosser	2011-03-26 00:00:00Z
Cleburne Rotary Club Fish Fry fundraiser: March 10 program Posted by Dale Gosser on Mar 08, 2011 The Cleburne Rotary Club Fish Fry funcraising team will discuss the new event scheduled for May 27 at the Cleburne Conference Center. Read more...	Cleburne Rotary Club Fish Fry fundraiser: March 10 program	Dale Gosser	2011-03-09 00:00:00Z
Rotarians preparing for dictionary distribution Posted by Dale Gosser At a recently regular meeting at the Cleburne Conference Center, members of the Cleburne Rotary Club helped label and prepare dictionaries for the club to distribute to third-graders through Cleburne ISD and the county. Pictured are Mayor Scott Cain, left, and David Barkley. Read more...	Rotarians preparing for dictionary distribution	Dale Gosser
How to do an online makeup Posted by Dale Gosser	How to do an online makeup	Dale Gosser
Rotary flags in downtown Cleburne Posted by Dale Gosser	Rotary flags in downtown Cleburne	Dale Gosser