Rotary Roundup

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www.hbgrotary.org
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Telephone: 717-234-1208
Fax: 717-234-3234

March 12, 2012

Speaker: Donald Gilliland, Enterprise reporter Harrisburg Patriot News
Topic: “Ethics, pursuing an ethical compass”
Greeter:  Robin Scaer
Invocation:  Dick Stewart
Mini-Classification Talk:  David Volkman
Club Singing:  John Hickey
Publications:  Carrie W. Thomas

Corporate Member

BIRTHDAYS
Jim Rowland  MAR 12
Ken Conner  MAR 13
Jack Snavely  MAR 13
Andy Hetrick MAR 14
Douglas Pieper  MAR 15
Mark Stone  MAR 16

UPCOMINGPROGRAMS
at the Hilton   

March 12
 
Donald Guilliand,
Enterprise Reporter for the Harrisburg Patriot News
 
"ETHICS: Pursuing An Ethical Compass".

A sparkling writer and speaker for the Patriot News discusses a
timely topic which is receiving growing attention in our daily culture!

March 19

Donald Unkovic
Receiver for the City of  Harrisburg

"THE NEW GUY IN CITY  HALL: Shares His Job Description and
Challenges"!.

Donald Unkovic was appointed as the Receiver of Harrisburg in
January.  Here is a great chance to get to know him and hear his
recovery plan for our city!

For complete programming go to our website: www.hbgrotary.org
and click on calendar.
For meeting cancelations:
Check your e-mail or call the
Rotary office at 234-1208.

PROGRAM:
Donald Gilliland is an enterprise reporter at the Harrisburg Patriot-News. His regular beats include Marcellus Shale, legalized gambling and prison reform. Before joining the Patriot-News two years ago, Gilliland was editor of the Potter Leader-Enterprise in Potter County for more than a decade. His work there included coverage of the multi-billion-dollar accounting fraud scandal at Adelphia communications. Gilliland has served on the government affairs committee of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, was a director of the Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors and was a founding member of the Pennsylvania Freedom of Information Coalition.

NEWS AND NOTES: 
• Rotary/Red Cross Blood Drive:2nd Blood Drive will be on April 2 at the Hilton.  We will have our regular Rotary meeting that day in the banquet room with a speaker from the Red Cross.  Please sign up for time slots 10 AM - 2 PM (blood drive in another room) and you can still attend our meeting.  You will also receive future attendance credit for your blood donation.  

Below are the Links to sign up sheet for Blood Drive April 2 and the Red Cross Donor info site:  http://www.timetosignup.com/ipackman/signupsheet/7485   ---- use this link to sign up to donate blood

http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood/eligibility-requirements  ---use this link to read the donor requirements

• FREE IMAX show:  Whoa, hold on to your hat!  That's right, we are face to face with a tornado on the horizon my Rotary friends!  Thursday, April 19th at 7 PM sharp you and your guest are invited to a complimentary showing of the IMAX thriller Tornado Alley!  Please RSVP to Linda as soon as you can. There will not be tickets provided, just show up at the Whitaker Center IMAX for open seating when doors open at 6:40.  The IMAX seating is limited to 200 and we hope to have a full house of family and friends join us for a windy, good time. Oh, yeah, plan to bring a few dollars so you can grab a tub of popcorn!  ALSO – you get attendance credit!

• YOUTH EXCHANGE WEEKEND:  On the Weekend of March 17 and 18, the Rotary Club of Harrisburg will be hosting 30 Rotary Foreign Youth Exchange Students from around the world.  The high school students will be staying at the YMCA overnight and will tour the State Capitol, State Museum and Planetarium, Strawberry Square, Whitaker Center and IMAX, and other Harrisburg sites.  The Youth Exchange Committee is planning the weekend which will include Lunch, Dinner, Snacks and Breakfast for the Students. The Youth Exchange Committee is soliciting donations of food items and monetary donations.  If you are able to donate something or volunteer for a short time, please contact Ron Guss at 717-215-0864. Arrangements will be made to pickup your donation.  Thank You.
Dave Bedard & Steve Feinour
Youth Exchange Committee Co-Chairs

• Congratulations to Susan Anthony and Maddie Young – Honorees for YWCA Tribute to Women Of Excellence.  Awards dinner will be Wednesday March 21.

DISTRICT NEWS:  
• District 7390 Conference to be held at Williamsburg, VA on Friday, March 30 through Sunday, April 1, 2012 at the Williamsburg Lodge.  Come experience all that the Colonial Williamsburg has to offer Rotarians and their guests.  Dinner at Shields Tavern is included in the total package plan.  Register online at www.rotary7390.org for the conference and contact the Williamsburg Lodge at 1-800-261-9530 (Group #15318) for overnight hotel accommodations.   

• The February Governors Newsletter is available at:
http://www.rotary7390.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=Ok1pspPQ9Sk%3d&tabid=113

LAST ROTARY MEETING:  3/5/12
Minutes by Mark Stone:
As is customary, the weekly meeting of the Harrisburg Rotary Club was opened by President Bob Saline at 12:08 P.M. Albert Schmidt offered the invocation, Tom Peluso led us in "My Country Tis of Thee" followed by the pledge to our flag. We then greeted each other with warm hand shakes on this cool Monday in early March. 

The meeting was reopened at 12:17 P.M. with Pat Amice introducing to us the Students and Teachers of the Quarter from Bishop McDevitt and Sci Tech High. Student and Teacher representatives from Harrisburg High were not able to attend today's meeting. Congratulations to these fine students and dedicated teachers.

Rotarian James Good asks Rotarians Karen Snider, Joe Metz, and Sally Klein to introduce their guests to the club.

Dr. Ira Packman informs us that the Blood Drive, scheduled for Monday, April 2nd at the Hilton Hotel that will need approximately twenty (20) volunteer donors to fill the thirty two (32) time slots.  Time slots are from 10 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. on April 2nd.  Ira reminded us that donating blood meets all four criteria of the Rotary Four Way Test.

Youth Exchange: Steve Feinour reminded us of the upcoming youth exchange weekend to be held the weekend of March 17-18 in Harrisburg.  Volunteers are needed for the night shift sleep over and a sign up sheet for donating food stuffs can be found at the front table with Linda Freedenberg.

RYLA:  Chris Cavanaugh reminded us that RYLA will be held at Messiah College from June 10-14, 2012.  Harrisburg Rotary will be sponsoring a student from both Bishop McDevitt and the Harrisburg School District.     

Program:      Judge Yvette Kane      Topic: C.A.R.E. Court

Judge Yvette Kane was appointed to the U.S. Federal Court (Middle District) in 1998 by President Clinton and became President Judge in 2006.  She has a long history of public service having served as Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under Governor Tom Ridge.  She practiced law with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office and was Chief Counsel for the PA Independent Regulatory Review Commission.

Judge Kane has established C.A.R.E. courts in Harrisburg, Williamsport, and Scranton. C.A.R.E. is the acronym for Court Assisted Re-Entry whose purpose is to assist offenders in making a successful transition from life in federal prison to life in the community.  She carefully explained the criteria for acceptance into the C.A.R.E program.  Participants who are accepted into the C.A.R.E. program sign a contract and receive intense supervision, to include, monthly visits to the C.A.R.E court of which Judge Kane personally presides over the Harrisburg court as a volunteer. She went onto say that incarcerated individuals in the federal prison system face many challenges with re-entry into the community, to include, employment, housing, educational opportunities, and social relationships.  The C.A.R.E. program does not accept violent offenders or sex offenders into the three year program and the most common offense committed by offenders is drugs.

Also with us today and part of the presentation were C.A.R.E program participant Frederick Jones, Jr., probation officers Mr. Mark Buckwalter and Ms.Fonda Steele and from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Assistant U.S. Attorney Daryl F. Bloom.  Each individual offered there comments on the strengths of this important program.

The C.A.R.E. court in Harrisburg meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 4:00 P.M. on the ninth floor of the Federal Court Building.  Currently ten to twelve individuals are part of the program in Harrisburg.  Judge Kane is in the process of developing a mentoring partnership with the Rotary Club of Harrisburg as a further enhancement to the Harrisburg C.A.R.E. Court.  Each volunteer mentor would go through an orientation program and receive training from a probation officer.  Male mentors would be paired with a male program participant and female mentors would be paired with a female program participant. The membership then had the opportunity to ask questions of the participants of today's very informative program.

OFFICERS:

DIRECTORS:

Robert S. Saline              
Una Martone
Karen F. Snider
John P. Judson, M.D.
Carolyn Dumaresq, Ed.D.
William B. Boles
Richard Utley                

President
President-Elect
Vice President
Immediate Past President
Secretary
Treasurer
Sergeant-at-Arms

Sandra Beck
Caryn J. Carr
David E. Freet
Kent E. Frese
Lisa Lewis
Thomas A. Peluso
Andrew R. Rebuck
Robin Scaer