Current Meeting Information

Programs for August 2010

August 2010 Rotary Bull
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Rotary Bull cover page
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Rotary District 7390
Rotary International

Upcoming Events

Don Nardis Retires as Secretary After 13 Years

Pictured above (left to right): Don Nardis, former Club Secretary and Darrell Westby, Club President.

Don receives a plaque from President Darrell on July 28th in recognition of Don's 13 years of service to the Mechanicsburg Club as its Secretary from 1997 to 2010.

Tom Burson Receives 6th Paul Harris Fellow

Pictured above (left to right): Kathy Burson, Tom Burson, and Darrell Westby, Club President.

President Darrell presents to Tom on July 28th a Paul Harris Fellow pin with 5 sapphires in recognition of having earned his sixth Paul Harris Fellow.

New Member Installed on June 23th

Pictured above (left to right): Don Nardis, member; Rachel Freeburn, new member; and Darrell Westby, Club President.

Rachel works for Fulton Bank and is the manager of the branch located on S. Market St. in Mechanicsburg. She resides in Dillsburg.

Welcome Rachel, to the Mechanicsburg Rotary Club.

Rotary Scholarship Winners
for 2009-10

Pictured above (left to right): Darrell Westby, Club President; Maegan Boucher; Northern High School; Ariel Arnold, Mechanicsburg High School; Luke Smith, Messiah College; Bridget Dougherty, Trinity High School; Jennifer Doyle, Program Officer, The Foundation for Enhancing Communities (TFEC); and John Cope, club member.

Each student received a $1,000 scholarship. In addition, those students who attend Pennsylvania colleges will be eligible to receive a $1,000 matching PHEAA Partnership For Access To Higher Education (PATH) grant. The scholarships were awarded on May 26th with funds from the Rotary Club of Mechanicsburg Charitable Fund held by the Mechanicsburg Area Foundation which is managed by TFEC.

Rotary Club of Mechanicsburg
Receives "Best Extra Small Club Award"
at the District Conference

Pictured above holding the banner is Mechanicsburg Club President, Darrell Westby, as he is presented the "Best Extra Small Club" banner by District 7390 Governor, Connie Spark. The presentation took place at the Saturday evening (April 24th), District Governors' Dinner Gala & Awards which was held at the Wyndham Hotel in Gettysburg. This event highlighted the joint District Conference of our District 7390 and District 7620 (Baltimore & Washington area) which began on Thursday with a golf tournament and concluded on Sunday morning with a memorial service for all Rotarians who had died in the past year.

The conference was attended by about 300 Rotarians and their guests and included a number of breakout sessions which dealt with the many projects of Rotary. Featured speakers included Mia Farrow talking about her personal experience with polio while growing up and her passion for fighting the ongoing genocide events in the world and providing relief to its still living victims. Also, other speakers were former RI President Richard King; Holocaust survivor, Marcel Drimer; and RI President's Representative, Mark Markanda. Each was very impressive in what they had to say. Richard King also used his great voice to open the memorial service on Sunday by singing "How Great Thou Art."

Mechanicsburg Rotary Water Team
Completes Well in El Salvador

The picture above was taken during the well dedication on 6 Nov 2009 at the school in El Salvador were the well was drilled. It replaced an old hand-dug well which was subject to surface water contamination. The Mechanicsburg Rotary team is shown in the back row behind some of the kids from the school. Team members (L to R): Don Gleichman, Eliana Jaroch, Dave Burns, Kathy Burson, Tom Burson, Sara Burns, Richard Howard, and Frank Ulrich. Richard is the team leader from Living Water International (LWI), Houston, TX.

Lastest News
The club has committed to doing a second well project in El Salvador in the summer of 2011 and this project will incorporate an investigation of sanitation needs and how those needs might be met.

In order to help raise funds for the project, the club will have periodic community nights out at a local restaurant where part of the meal cost is donated to the project. The first one was held on May 20th at Friendly's and raised $236.07. The next one was again held at Friendly's in Camp Hill on June 24th and raised $232.54. We expect to do more fund raisers--stay tuned.
 

"Welcome to Mechanicsburg" sign

The sign has been completed. A dedication ceremony
was held on Sunday, Sept. 10, 2006
on North York Street near the new sign.
In October 2008 the back of the sign had lettering added
and the landscaping was completed.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the success of this project.

Memorial funds have been  given in honor of two of our dear friends and Rotarians, Richard Wevodau and Carolyn Snyder. The funds were  to landscape around the sign and add the lettering to the back of the sign.

Click here to see pictures of the sign and its construction.