A fifth Rotary club is coming soon to Chattanooga.
The Rotary Rocks Chattanooga group plans to meet weekly downtown starting at 5 p.m. Tuesdays, providing an alternative to clubs that meet during the workday, at breakfast or later in the evening, founder Jane Bowen said.
The group plans to focus on service projects and empowering women and children, Bowen said by phone.
Rotary Rocks will join other Rotary groups in the area, including the downtown lunchtime Chattanooga Rotary Club; the Rotary Club of Chattanooga Hamilton Place; the Chattanooga Breakfast Rotary Club; its spin-off, Nooga Night Rotary; and the young professional-oriented Rotaract Club.
Bowen’s husband is a charter member of the Breakfast Rotary, and she learned about the Rotary mission and ethics “by osmosis” through him, she said.