Speakers

Introduced by Christine Sable

Mike Orren, a digital media executive with three decades of experience building and managing local news organizations, is chief executive officer of LNP | LancasterOnline, the 231-year-old Lancaster news organization now owned by the nonprofit Always Lancaster.

Orren, 53, brings extensive experience in both journalism and the rapidly changing business of digital media. In 2006, he founded Pegasus News, a pioneering hyperlocal news site serving the Dallas area. The company was acquired the following year by Fisher Communications and was later purchased by The Dallas Morning News.

Orren subsequently served as chief product and marketing officer at DallasNews Corp., the former parent company of The Dallas Morning News. There, he doubled paid digital subscriptions, increased digital advertising revenue by 67%, and helped save $1.2 million annually through improvements to the company's technology platforms. Over his career, he has raised more than $40 million in capital and served on the board of the Local Media Consortium.

Orren and his wife, Crystal, moved to Lancaster in 2024. His appointment as CEO places a Lancaster resident at the helm of one of the nation's oldest continuously operating news organizations at a particularly important point in its history. LNP | LancasterOnline began operating under nonprofit ownership through Always Lancaster in January.

Orren works alongside Executive Editor Tom Murse, who leads the newsroom, and LNP Media Group President Chris Stahl, who oversees revenue and business operations. Always Lancaster founder and former NPR journalist David Greene remains chair of the nonprofit's board.

Orren now faces a challenge confronting local journalism across the country: how to preserve trusted community news while adapting to dramatic changes in the way people receive—and pay for—information. His experience at the intersection of journalism, technology, and business gives him a particularly interesting perspective on what the future of local news may look like here in Lancaster County.

Nancy Mannion is a registered nurse, healthcare leader, Rotarian, and candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Pennsylvania's 11th Congressional District. She has more than 40 years of experience in nursing, healthcare leadership, and international health. Her campaign identifies healthcare, jobs and working families, small businesses, and government accountability among its priorities.

Mannion began her nursing education with a Registered Nurse diploma and went on to earn a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, a Master of Science in Nursing Administration, and a Doctor of Nursing Practice. Her career has included clinical nursing as well as management and leadership positions in hospitals, health systems, and professional associations.

She has held a number of leadership positions in the nursing profession, including president of the Emergency Nurses Association. She also chaired the Nurses on Boards Coalition, an organization that promotes nurses' participation on boards and other governing bodies as a way to improve community health. She currently serves as the coalition's Board Chair-Emeritus and remains a board member of the Emergency Nurses Association.

Mannion's healthcare work has also taken her overseas. She has led humanitarian medical teams to Bolivia, Kenya, and Nepal and has worked internationally as a healthcare consultant.

Community service has been a continuing part of her life. In addition to Rotary, she has volunteered through her church and served on nonprofit and healthcare boards.

As a congressional candidate, Mannion supports expanding access to affordable healthcare, workforce education and training, small-business development, and improved economic opportunities for Lancaster and York counties.

At home, Nancy and her husband enjoy gardening and spending time with their two dogs, Mr. Finn and Joey.

 

https://www.nancymannion.com/

Christine Sable will introduce:

Lena C Hohenadel is a native of Venezuela, and citizen since 1984. She retired in 2014 after 23 years as a residential Realtor with Berkshire Hathaway Homesale Services.  A community volunteer since 1967, Lena has been recognized for her volunteer leadership, and currently serves on the Sustainer Advisory Board of the Junior League of Lancaster, on the Board of Off The Streets, Inc. and as volunteer and member of the Leadership Team of Off The Streets Lancaster.  She and husband, John (Jack) Hohenadel live in Manheim Twp. and have four adult children. Lena enjoys travel, reading and most of all, time with family and friends.  

George Gellrich is a first generation American. He retired in 2020 as a Vice President for Exelon Nuclear, the largest nuclear plant operator in the country. Currently, George serves on the Crane Nuclear Restart Board in addition to being active volunteer and member of the Off the Streets Lancaster  Leadership Team. 
Married to Mary, and parent to three adult children, George’s focus has shifted to family, service through Off The Streets Lancaster, fitness and golf. 

The simplicity of the Off The Streets (OTS) mission has been critical to its growth: help people who are homeless, or about to become homeless, move into a place they can call their own by accomplishing two basic tasks—pay the security deposit and furnish the apartment.

That's it. OTS has no paid staff; the work is done by volunteers, with no office or related overhead expenses. The organization accepts no government funding. Donations come from individuals, places of worship, businesses, and other organizations.

Almost every dollar contributed goes directly toward paying a security deposit to a landlord for a qualified person or family who can afford the monthly rent but cannot afford the deposit required to move in. Beds, furniture, linens, and other household necessities are donated.

The concept is remarkably simple. Someone may have the income to pay rent but still lack the money for a security deposit—or have an empty apartment but nothing to sleep on or sit on. By filling those relatively small gaps, Off The Streets can help turn an available apartment into a home and give an individual or family a new start.

‘Off The Streets’ Earns International Recognition:
https://www.catholicwitness.org/off-the-streets-earns-international-recognition

Introduced by Jamie Alton:

With more than 30 years in the survey research field,  the Center for Opinion Research (COR) at Franklin & Marshall College is much more than the organization that produces the familiar “F&M Poll.” It is a full-scale, nonprofit and nonpartisan survey-research organization within F&M in Lancaster.

Berwood Yost is the Director of the Center for Opinion Research and the Director of the Floyd Institute for Public Policy at Franklin & Marshall College. He is also the Director of the Franklin & Marshall College Poll, which tracks public attitudes toward public policy issues and political campaigns. His scholarship is multidisciplinary and has appeared in journals that include the fields of criminology, human rights, political science, psychology, and public health.

Mr. Yost frequently writes about the results and implications of political campaigns in the state and has closely followed changes within the state’s electorate. His recent work has attempted to identify ideological and partisan patterns among the state’s voters and his recent book, a co-edited volume from Temple University Press, “Are All Politics Nationalized? Evidence from the 2020 Pennsylvania Campaigns,” explores how political campaigns communicate with voters about the issues that are most important to them. Mr. Yost also began publishing a newsletter about state politics in February of 2021 and regularly writes about state politics, polling, and public policy for a general audience. 

Introduced by President Tom:

Rebecca Zalit, Rotary Club of Palmyra, is District Governor for District 7390 for the 2026-2027 Rotary year. 
 
Rebecca is a Lehigh Valley native, born and raised in Allentown, PA prior to moving to the Central Pennsylvania area for college. After completing her undergraduate degree at Millersville University, Rebecca spent some time working in public schools in Augusta, GA before making her way back to the Hershey Area where she now resides with her husband, Doug, in Palmyra. 

Rebecca’s career has been dedicated to serving children and families. She has served in various teaching positions and as a childcare center director. Currently, Rebecca serves as Executive Director of the Palmyra Area Recreation & Parks Commission. 
Rebecca’s Rotary journey began with an alternate meeting hosted by the Rotary Club of Palmyra in 2018. After joining, she served as Club President for two consecutive years. At the district level, she has served as Assistant Governor for Group C and as a committee member on the District DEI Committee, Safety Committee, and Four-Way Speech & Essay Contest Committee. She is a member of the Paul Harris Society. 

Rebecca holds a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from Millersville University, a Graduate Certificate in Early Childhood Pedagogy from the University of Colorado, and a Master of Arts in Innovative Early Childhood Education from the University of Colorado. She holds Pennsylvania Teaching Certificates for Kindergarten-6th grade and Nursery-Kindergarten, along with a Pennsylvania Director’s Credential. 

Her interests include cooking, gardening, hiking, volunteering, and discovering new places in the community.

Introduced by Christine Sable:

“How Do You Save a Bowling Alley?”
Long before Jordan Steffy became a starting quarterback at the University of Maryland, he was a youngster at 222 Dutch Lanes trying to roll the perfect game. Now his life has come full circle: Steffy and his family are the new owners of the bowling center where he first developed his love of sports.

For Lancaster County sports fans, Steffy is a familiar name. At Conestoga Valley High School, he was a four-year football letterman who threw for 5,587 yards and 51 touchdowns. He was also a four-year basketball letterman and became only the second player in school history to score 1,000 points. His athletic ability took him to the University of Maryland on a football scholarship, where he played quarterback for the Terrapins from 2004 through 2008.

His interests after college extended well beyond sports. Steffy founded the Children Deserve a Chance Foundation and Attollo Prep in 2008. Attollo has developed into a Lancaster-based college-access and leadership-development program for high school students, emphasizing such qualities as resiliency, accountability, sacrifice and competition.

Now another chapter has brought him back to his roots.

222 Dutch Lanes has been a Lancaster County institution for decades. The Montgomery family owned the center beginning in 1986, developing it into a community gathering place for recreational and league bowlers and the home lanes for several area high school bowling teams. The facility also includes an arcade and the 22-hole Dutch Gardens miniature golf course.

In 2026, Steffy and his family became its new owners. Speaking about returning to Dutch Lanes, Steffy described it as a privilege to become part of the future of a place whose history he had personally shared. Former longtime general manager Eric Montgomery put the transition another way: the building and its memories will remain, while new owners create new memories.

That presents Steffy with an interesting challenge. Bowling alleys are more than rows of lanes. They are businesses, sports facilities and gathering places where leagues compete, high school teams practice, families celebrate birthdays and generations of bowlers form friendships. Preserving that tradition while keeping such a facility relevant to today's families requires both respect for its past and ideas for its future.

Introduced by Jamie Alton.

Artificial intelligence transforms medicine by accelerating disease detection, automating administrative paperwork, and personalizing patient treatments.  Some of the challenges of AI in healthcare are the risk of algorithmic bias, data privacy concerns, and the need to maintain human empathy in care.

Dr. Christian Park is a Diagnostic Radiologist and Nuclear Medicine physician at Penn State Health, where he serves as Medical Director of Clinical AI for the Community Medical Practice Radiology and Virtual Health.  Dr. Park maintains a full-time active clinical practice, interpreting thousands of studies annually.

As Radiologist his practice includes CT, MRI, PET/CT, Ultrasound, and Nuclear Medicine (oncology/cardiac).

As a Director of AI of both Radiology and Virtual Health, he is an authority on AI algorithm errors, software liability, and standard of care in technology-assisted diagnosis.

His MBA and operational leadership roles provide expertise in hospital workflows, missed diagnoses due to system errors, and radiology administration.

Dr. Park combines the clinical precision of a clinical radiologist with the technical clarity of an operational leader. He can explain complex concepts—from PET/CT physics to AI "Black Box" errors.