West End Rotary expands fellowship with PM club

West End Rotary isn’t just for breakfast anymore. The service organization has expanded its offerings by adding an evening meeting for business people who’d rather service their community when fully awake.

“We’re extending Rotary’s community outreach to new members whose schedules don’t allow them to attend a breakfast meeting,” said Jill Rehrig, the club’s president and principal organizer of the PM Fellowship Club. “The new schedule offers greater flexibility. Members can choose to meet in the morning or the evening.”

The club has traditionally met for breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Thursdays at the Western Pocono Community Library in Brodheadsville. The new branch of the club meets at 5:30 p.m. Thursdays.

The new meeting time also offers greater possibilities for community service, she said. Over the past few years West End Rotary has held several high-profile fundraisers, including a Vera Bradley/Longaberger Basket Bingo the Sunday before the Super Bowl and its Oktoberfest and Car Show at the Polk Township Fire Hall. With those proceeds the club has purchased equipment for local firefighters, coats for children in need and dictionaries for every third grader in the Pleasant Valley School District. It has also supported regional projects such as the new Dale and Frances Hughes Cancer Center in East Stroudsburg.

For more information contact Jill Rehrig at (570) 778-3846.