Who do you know who selflessly contributes to our community?
Whose commitment to our community inspires you? Consider nominating them for the Rotary Club of Harrisburg's Community Service Award.
The nomination form for this prestigious award is conveniently accessible from the homepage of the Club's website, with submissions welcomed until April 5, 2024. Be sure to mark your calendars for April 29, 2024, as we celebrate and honor the deserving recipient of this award.
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
Volunteers are needed Friday, April 12thfrom 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. for a Poverty Simulation at Hillside Christian Fellowship, 807 State St, Millersburg, PA. Join us in promoting awareness and increasing understanding of poverty by volunteering!
During the simulation, volunteers will portray various institutions and organizations such as housing agencies, schools, pawn shops, community health centers, etc. that participants will interact with. No experience is necessary and all are welcome to volunteer!
Manuel Arhusiander, Walter Tilley and Ryan Baker guests of Cheri Comasco
Jason Kirsch guest of Bob Saline
Roxanne Lehman guest of Jeanne Troy
Ave Valentin and guest of Jill Tenny
Jacob Gallent guest of Meghan Bachmore
John guest of Shaun Eng
Announcements from President Ellen
Thank you all for registering today
$2000 Scholarship application extended to Mar 29, any questions see Amy Rote
Considering nominating for the Rotary Club Hgb Prestige Award now through April 5. April 29 the award will be given
Food Bank tonight 3.18.24
Next meeting new member Lauren Mariani will present
HBG WDCT Scholarships award $5000, special thanks for Peggy Grove matching HGB donation of $2500
April 19-20 District Conference
Introducing Manuel an inbound Rotary exchange student from Sweden. Gifted artist, seeking to auction off artwork today to help his efforts to travel to the West Coast. Discovering painting while here in the states, excited for upcoming trip while his stay through July 2024.
Give a big round of applause for Manual and all that he has accomplished while here
Lovely to have Betty here with us.
Ryan Unger introduces the guest speakers today:
Guest Speaker: Rob Hetrick President and CEO WITF since 2019, former SVP of Finance at WITF
WITF- 60 years old, central PA public media station, serving 3M people within 19 counties
WITF has a YouTube channel and WITF Music to name a few
Partakes in dozen events annually, bringing services to families that they would not have access to
Has given away over 22,000 books
Importance of local news- changing landscape 2100 newspapers have ceased publishing, declining business, however new initiatives and education to promotes local economy, power to connect and unify
WITF Journey- Informing and engaging the community
Steinman Institute – A gift from Lancaster Newspaper LNP, 200 years old company. Another grant of a 5 year seed gift, to keep the Lancaster new paper and to innovate, LNP will continue to provide journalism- focus effects and funding that impact the quality of life in communities. Both WIFT and LNP will continue enrich community in partnership
Guest Speaker- Jess King- Founding executive director of the Steinman Institute for Civil Engagement, former chief of staff for the mayor of Lancaster
Current focus in Lancaster County, the grant experiment will help us learn as we expand to other communities. Focus on supply and demand of journalism, supporting professional development of journalists. How do we create a more sustainable business model?
Started the market research and focus groups to learn how people are using media to get their information
National effort- Press Forward, 40 foundations pulled together 5 M to support the news outlet ecosystem
Efforts to understand how the younger generation get their news, start a news room w kids throughout Lancaster county and foster learning and engaging the next generation
Creating new programs on media literacy and how we understand our sources of information
David Green- Lancaster Native- Podcast Left Right and Center
Civil discourse- lack of productive conversation. Created a Program- One Small Step, matches people who have political divides
Closing Remarks from President Ellen
Thank you Ron and Jess
Thank you everyone for being here to support the club
Bid on artwork, we’ll collect the money today
We are here next Monday
1:03 adjourn
THANK YOU CORPORATE MEMBERS
Rotary Club of Harrisburg Minutes
March 11, 2024
What is your favorite color? Yes, I know, that is a tough question but I can tell you one of my favorites is the color green. Okay, I will tell you why, but only if I can also pen the minutes of the Rotary Club of Harrisburg’s March 11 meeting.
Salads, lettuce, cucumbers…everyone loves a healthy, nutritious, green salad, and our meeting room was filled to the brim with the YCDT students as President Ellen rang the bell at 12:12, Vlad offered the reflection, we recited the Pledge and enjoyed a meet and greet and President-Elect Scott introduced the three guests with members’ Holiday, Mariani and Ski.
Vegetables, Broccoli, Asparagus---let’s stay healthy and eat our green veggies, and YCDT Co-chairs Andy Philips and Brad Gebhart started today’s program with a deserved applause for our student guests, a thank you to the YCDT committee and a quick reminder that this program is unique to our Club as it was created to commemorate our 100th anniversary in 2011. Marion joined the dynamic duo in touting the significance of this program that has annually worked with youth from area schools like McDevitt, Harrisburg High, Sci-Tech and Cougar.
Sporting Fields, the green grass of football and baseball and golf courses, and six different groups of students came forward with a self-introduction and brief explanation of their descriptive poster that included ones termed Brightside, and The Apple Tree. The students had used these posters to fuel their inspiration as they sought to secure the most pressing need for community support. The choice was difficult but they landed on support for after school programs.
Shamrocks and all the Luck of the Irish Green as we soon celebrate St. Pats, and this group of 40 students launched an RFP for a $5,000 grant and received 18 applications. That list was pared to the final four finalists with the award recipient to be announced in April. In the meantime, this group will focus on fundraising with friends, family, personal donations as well as a Philly Pretzel sale. (Many Club members came prepared to support their campaign as Peggy had promised a one-day match to what was raised.)
Meeting adjourned at 12:49 and don’t be green with envy if you missed this wonderful presentation. Perhaps you would consider sending some green money (or a check) to our Rotary office though as it would be super to see the total flow past the goal. Okay, hop like a frog to our next Rotary meeting and we will see you all there.
Charles "Chuck" Sweeder
Lori Mader
Kathryn Paradise
Resignations -15
Karen Cullings
Domenic DeYulis
Larry Dittmann
Alicia Frederick
Cami Grimm
Hasu Shah
James Good
Karen Good
Beth Mihmet
Jillian Biehl-Morrison
Angela Tatum
Ann Auferio
Joan Dickinson
Jennifer Doyle
Birthdays
Member Birthdays
Ken Conner
March 13
Andy Hetrick
March 14
Chuck Sweeder
March 17
Irene Berman-Levine
March 22
Paul Mahoney
March 22
Lou Grammes, CLUCFBS
March 23
Dominic Colardo
March 26
Gib Parthemore
March 29
Susan Hubley
March 29
Andy Rebuck
March 31
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