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Newnan Rotary Club The Newnan Rotary Club consists of a diverse group of members who work, live and volunteer in the Newnan Coweta Community.

The Rotary Club of Newnan, GA, celebrated 100 Years of Service in Newnan and Coweta County in 2024, and we are looking forward to the next 100 years of service and impact! Through leadership and service projects; we work to make a difference in the individual's lives around us and the community we live and work in. We meet every Friday at 12:00pm at the Newnan Country Club.

Zach Williams asked us to imagine him handing each of us a $182,000 check as we walked out the door. That is about what ...
10/15/2026

Zach Williams asked us to imagine him handing each of us a $182,000 check as we walked out the door. That is about what a poorly timed Social Security claim costs, according to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta that he cited.

Zach, a partner and wealth advisor at Fairway Financial Partners, helps retirees and those nearing retirement turn their savings into a paycheck, and he walked the Rotary Club of Newnan through the most important decisions. By his math, Social Security adds up to about a million dollars over a married couple's lifetime, and a couple can claim it in 9,000 different ways. Claim at 62 and the check is permanently up to 30% smaller, but wait past full retirement age, and it grows 8% a year until 70.

His advice was to start with your goals and plan Social Security alongside everything else you have saved, because the Social Security office will process your choice but won't coordinate it with your 401(k) or IRA.

Thank you, Zach!

10/09/2026

We can’t separate our community from what happens upstream.

So when fuel and sewage spills occur at Atlanta's airport, there’s a good reason for Coweta County residents to care, according Southern Conservation Trust President and CEO Chris Doane.

At Wednesday’s meeting of the Newnan Rotary Club, Doane outlined the Flint Rising Initiative, a five-year effort to balance development and conservation across the Upper Flint River region, beginning with Coweta and Fayette counties.

Link to story in comments. Story by Clay Neely.

Chris Doane joked that Alan Jackson has us all convinced our water comes from the Chattahoochee. In fact, about half of ...
10/08/2026

Chris Doane joked that Alan Jackson has us all convinced our water comes from the Chattahoochee. In fact, about half of Coweta County sits in the Flint River watershed.

Chris, a former member of our club and now President and CEO of the Southern Conservation Trust, told us about the Trust's Flint Rising Initiative, a five-year effort to balance growth and conservation across the Upper Flint, starting with Coweta and Fayette counties.

He explained how a conservation easement works: the family keeps the land, the deed protects it from development for good, and the Trust has set aside $300,000 to help local landowners do it. His ask was plain: "If you own land, conserve it."

Chris speaks again on Tuesday, October 13, at 6:30 p.m. at the Newnan Carnegie Library, and that talk is open to the public, with registration at FlintRising.org.

Thank you, Chris!

10/08/2026

Paul Harris started Rotary in 1905, and he did not want it frozen there. His words: Rotary "must be evolutionary at all times, revolutionary on occasion."

Rotary has decided this is one of those occasions. It is called Rotary Revolution, and the tagline carries the whole idea — a revolution led by serving hands. Not shouting. Not taking sides. Just people who look at what is still broken in the world and get to work: disease that should not still be killing anyone, water that is not safe to drink, kids without a path to an education, a peace that keeps coming apart.

There is a new three-minute film that makes the case, and here is why we are sharing it with you. Photographs of the Rotary Club of Newnan are in it. The Wednesday mornings, the scholarships, the students from the other side of the world, the projects you have driven past — all of it is on that screen, standing in for what Rotary is.

Watch it and look for yourself. Then send it to someone who has always wondered what we actually do in there.

Benjamin Isidore has spent more than 24 years leading technology work, from day-to-day operations to security and compli...
09/28/2026

Benjamin Isidore has spent more than 24 years leading technology work, from day-to-day operations to security and compliance. He is the founder and CEO of BisGentech, a technology consulting company that helps small and growing businesses with AI, automation, cybersecurity, and IT strategy. He is also a Certified AI App Builder who is developing several new technology ventures.

On Wednesday, September 23, 2026, Benjamin became the newest member of the Rotary Club of Newnan, and membership chair Walker Sandlin pinned his Rotary emblem on his lapel. Benjamin lives in the Newnan area and wants to use his experience to support businesses and the broader community.

Welcome to Rotary, Benjamin!

Curious what Rotary is about? The club meets on Wednesdays at noon at Newnan Country Club, and guests are welcome.

"We all have a birth date, but we don't have an expiration date." Pete Kane of Podcast Pete told us how a stroke four an...
09/24/2026

"We all have a birth date, but we don't have an expiration date."

Pete Kane of Podcast Pete told us how a stroke four and a half years ago changed the way he spends every day. He spent 49 days in rehab relearning how to speak, and a friend's suggestion to start a podcast became part of his recovery.

Over 500 episodes later, he walked us through the 6 freedoms he now teaches: time, health, wealth, creativity, location, and travel. He also left us a line worth keeping: "Whenever may never happen."

Pete is a fellow Rotarian and a member of the North Cobb Rotary Club, and his ask was one every member can act on: tell your club's story and invite someone to experience it.

Thank you, Pete, for your honesty and your encouragement.

Rotary has a high school version, and the students run it themselves.It's called Interact, and this club sponsors two — ...
09/22/2026

Rotary has a high school version, and the students run it themselves.

It's called Interact, and this club sponsors two — at Newnan High School and East Coweta High School. The students pick their own projects, hold their own meetings, and manage their own money. We stay out of the way.

Newnan High's Interact club has earned a national Presidential Citation five years running. That is not a participation award.

If your student is looking for something real to put their hands on this year, ask their school about Interact.

On Monday and Tuesday, patients at Coweta Samaritan Clinic asked whether the clinic had any toiletry kits. Staff gave th...
09/18/2026

On Monday and Tuesday, patients at Coweta Samaritan Clinic asked whether the clinic had any toiletry kits. Staff gave the same answer each time: "Rotary's coming on Wednesday."

Today, Rotary Club of Newnan members moved our weekly meeting to the clinic on Jackson Street and packed 165 bags of shampoo, soap, deodorant, toothpaste, and toilet paper, funded by a $2,000 district grant from Rotary District 6900.

Executive Director Kelly Hines told us that many patients can barely make eye contact on their first visit, and that the clinic's work is restoring their hope and dignity along with their health.

Thank you, Kelly and the whole clinic team, for almost 15 years of caring for our neighbors.

Our GRSP scholar, Maciej Derecki, has his father Piotr visiting from Poland this month! Thirty-two years ago Piotr came ...
09/14/2026

Our GRSP scholar, Maciej Derecki, has his father Piotr visiting from Poland this month! Thirty-two years ago Piotr came to Georgia on that same GRSP scholarship, to that same university, the University of West Georgia!

So it was a nice piece of luck that last week's program happened to be UWG: the athletic director on a campus now pushing past 17,000 students and a year from full NCAA Division I membership, and the Wolves' new head football coach. Piotr got to hear what the place he knew in 1994 has become, sitting a few feet from the son who goes there now. Some Wednesdays just line up.

Dr. Julie Post, president of West Georgia Technical College, told us about a student named Miss Helen — who started driv...
09/10/2026

Dr. Julie Post, president of West Georgia Technical College, told us about a student named Miss Helen — who started driving herself to the LaGrange campus at 88 and earned her GED in July, five days after her 91st birthday.

West Georgia Tech serves seven counties and 2,500 square miles, and 99% of its graduates go straight to work or on to more school, 90% of them in the exact field they trained for. Coweta County is its third-largest group of students.

Thank you, Dr. Post, for showing us what that looks like up close.

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Newnan, GA
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