Opportunity for International Volunteer Service and Contributions
If you like to travel and support the Rotary Foundation, we have a unique opportunity for you.
PDG Connie Spark of the East York Club, District 7390 and PDG Cindy Hornaman, Emmaus Club Rotary District 7430 have initiated 3 global grant opportunities in the small Village of Mfuwe, Zambia. This village is located in the southeastern area of Zambia near the South Luangwa National park.
The Vocational Training Team global grants are in the area of focus of disease prevention including:
Eye Care (eye exams, equipment, and training)
Dental Care (dental exams, surgery, equipment, and training)
Medical Care (maternal child health- exams, equipment, training, heart care, and general medical)
We are seeking funding from clubs and districts as well as volunteers to support the grants.
The volunteers will include doctors, nurses, medical support staff, other volunteer services.
Timing: The plan is to travel in April 2023. The length of the projects will be approximately 7 days. Dates will be determined upon grant approval.
Please respond promptly- we need to move quickly.
And another opportunity - Following the volunteer work - opportunity for an African Safari adventure in the South Luangwa National Park- known to be one of the most pristine wildernesses in Africa (approximately 1 week) – and some Rotary fellowship.
Contact PDG 7430 Cindy Hornaman at hornamca@ptd.net(610) 360-4875
York FBI Office
January 10, 2023 - Special Agent Christopher Nawrocki. Special Agent Nawrocki is a 20-plus year veteran with the FBI and is based out of the Philadelphia Bureau with his local office located in York, PA. He majored in accounting and worked in the private sector before become and agent. Agent Nawrocki is a certified expert on gangs and narcotic trafficking. Special Agent Nawrocki gave us an amazing detailed description of an old local narcotic case that all started with a York storage facility address noted on a piece of paper found on a person who was arrested at the Philadelphia Airport. The person was arrested at 6:30 am and he was at the unit by 7:30 am where they arrested the criminal when he arrived to move the contents which contained firearms and narcotics. They were arrested and eventually served a 15 years sentence. There's a stereotype of FBI agents being very emotionally flat, humorless, and all about the facts. In reality, the most effective agents can be very personable, outgoing, and have a good sense of humor. The job is about getting people to relax, getting witnesses to help you, getting criminals to confess, and getting guys to work for us instead of us for them. Likability is a very important trait at the FBI. The movies and TV shows often depict FBI agents as inflexible and bureaucratic, and maybe there's a grain of truth to that in some instances — but it's certainly not an accurate reflection of the performance and personalities of the more successful FBI agents. He has had a wonderful carrier and is not looking forward to retirement in a few years when he reaches the mandatory retirement age of 57.
2023 January Students
The Rotary Club of York-East has selected Kyle Truett and Ava Steinfelt as the York County School of Technology students of the Month. The students spoke at the club's weekly breakfast meeting on January 17th, 2023. Ava is a junior, a member of distinguished honor roll and earned the Youth Leadership award. She plays on the softball team and was awarded the York Daily Record Athlete of the week. Ava volunteers in our community including, safety town, Willow Valley retirement community and the Ataxia-Telangiectasia cure team. She will attend a four year college pursing a nursing degree. Kyle is a senior who has earned the distinguished honor roll and was awarded the President’s Award for Academic Excellence. Kyle is an Eagle Scout, a member of the PA Cyber Patriot Team and a district writing competition winner. He will be attending college to become a cyber security expert. As always, when listening to students of the month, club members feel reassured that the future of America is bright.
January 17, 2023 — Detective Derek Hartman with the York County Quick Response Team spoke at our weekly breakfast meeting. York County has been providing specialized training to a select group of law enforcement officers since 2002.The goal is to utilize these officers in the resolution of high-risk and volatile situations. “Our mission is to support the police on high profile, important incidents where they don’t have the resources or the knowledge to resolve, we come in and help out with that," said Detective Hartman. The team has roughly 25 tactical operators and about 20 negotiators. When they get called in on a part-time basis to deal with these high profile incidents, they could deal with any number of different things, somebody in crisis, a barricaded subject, a person with a high-risk warrant, something along those lines that we would be called to resolve. The tactical members train twice a month and negotiators once a month. A lot of the training is based on tactics where our guys go and learn specific tactics to be able to move through buildings, do rural tracking. They also do a lot of training for equipment and breaching and things along those lines. The officers in this unit are dedicated to protecting York County citizens and assisting local law enforcement agencies during critical incidents. “When the police call us, it means that there’s a big problem and we’re the guys that are trained to deal with it in the best way for everybody, including the police, including the citizens that we're called to help that day," said Hartman. A lot of the response team’s funding comes from the York County commissioners through the District Attorney’s office, but they still need to depend on community contributions.
Immigration Courts
January 24, 2023 - Kuyomars Golparvar currently serves as an Immigration Judge at the York Immigration Court in York, PA for the U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review. He received his J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and his B.A. from The George Washington University. After graduation from law school, Judge Golparvar worked as an associate at Deasy & Whitehill, P.C., where he focused on immigration law issues. He has also served at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a division chief, section chief, senior advisor, deputy chief counsel, and assistant chief counsel. Since 2013, he has taught Immigration Law and Immigration Criminal Enforcement at The George Washington University Law School as a visiting associate professor of law and an adjunct professor.
Judge Golparvar explained how the immigration court hearings are civil administrative proceedings that involve foreign-born individuals (called respondents) whom the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has charged with violating immigration law. In these hearings, immigration judges determine whether respondents should be ordered removed from the United States or granted relief or protection from removal (such as adjustment of status, asylum, cancellation of removal, or other remedies provided by immigration law) and permitted to remain in the country. There are approximately 700 immigration judges located in 68 immigration courts with over 2 million cases pending before the courts. Judge Golparvar described how the hearings are now held virtually using WebEx and he works from his home most of the time. Technology has allowed the process to work better as respondents do not need to be transported, attorneys can be from anywhere in the country and judges can hear more cases.
Club Information
Welcome to our Club!
Service Above Self
Tuesdays at 7:30 AM
Currently meetings are held both in person and using Zoom (contact secretary for a Zoom invitation)
Heritage Hills Resort
2700 Mount Rose Ave
York, PA 17402-9207 United States of America
An alternative meeting has been established on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month at 5:30 PM. The meeting location is the Victory Athletic Club at 471 South Ogontz Street.
Click on the Club Meeting text to view the details of each meeting.
Greeters for Monthly Meetings
February 7: Dan Hoff and Joanne Bankos
February 14: Jim Craft and Bill Gierasch
February 21: Sandi Graham and Stephanie Hoffman
February 28: Morrie Hooper and Chris Izzo
March 7: Wendy Keesee and Jeff Kile
Birthdays and Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
John Schmitt
February 7
Charlie Stein
February 28
Join Date
Diane Yocum
February 21, 2012
11 years
Greg Kern
February 24, 2000
23 years
Todd King
February 25, 2020
3 years
Todd Kurl
February 28, 2017
6 years
Membership News
In January, Cindy Hochhalter resigned from the club citing business pressures as the reason for her resignation.
In January a new member joined the club: Andrea Ryan. Andi is the Destination Marketing Manager at Explore York. When you see her at meetings, please welcome her.
Dan Hoff and Christina Vranich have joined the Service Committee. Nate Tile and Andi Ryan have joined the Public Relations Committee. Steph Hoffman and Nick Smolko have joined the Membership Committee.
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