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January 24, 2010

Meeting run by 1st year Rotarians!

Speaker: Linda LeFever, Executive Dean of Academic Affairs HACC  
Topic:  “PA Wine Industry”

Greeter: 
Invocation:  John Packer
Club Singing:  Beth Persun
Mini-Classification:  Ira Packman
Publications:  Jeffry Haas

BIRTHDAYS

Steve Baloga  JAN 27

Jack Carr  JAN 30

UPCOMING PROGRAMS
at the Hilton

Jan 31  Robert D. Hanson Rotary Excellence Award

Feb  7 Ted Martin, Patty Bucek and John Campbell
"WHAT IS THE GAY AGENDA?: Three Highly Respected Gay Individuals Answer the Question".

Feb 14  (Board Meeting 10:30-N)

Feb 21    NO MEETING

For complete programming go to our website: hbgrotary.org and click on calendar.
For meeting cancellations due to inclement weather.... Tune to ABC27-TV or check your e-mail or call the Rotary office at 234-1208.

PROGRAM: Linda Lefevre, Executive Dean of HACC's Harrisburg Campus, will present an overview of how HACC is addressing the educational needs of Pennsylvania's growing wine industry. Linda has been an administrator at the College for over twenty years and has developed and implemented programs of study in many diverse areas such as the building trades, ornamental horticulture, and the culinary arts. She currently oversees all academic offerings at the Harrisburg Campus, as well as provides leadership to the Humanities and Performing Arts and Arts departments. She was instrumental in the establishment of Radius, a shop which carried the work of HACC craft marketing students, as well as Bricco, the partner restaurant for the Culinary Arts program. She recently took the lead on the development of two state-wide programs of study designed to provide the workforce for Pennsylvania's wine grape industry; these programs include a certificate or degree option in Viticulture and in Enology, and are offered through a combination of online and classroom instruction.

NEWS AND NOTES:
• The Nominating Committee welcomes nominations in writing until January 21 for the Vice- President position (serves 2011-12) and the four Board vacancies. Rotarians must have served for 3 years.
Please contact Linda with your nominations

• Condolences to Garry Brinton on the loss of his mother.

• Applications for the WGAL-Rotary TEACHER IMPACT AWARDS to honor local educators are available from the Rotary Club office. Deadline to submit is January 28.

• Remember $100 Harrisburg Rotary Foundation contribution is due!  Please send in your $100 today.  77% have paid 2010-11 to date.

• Support the Troops:  Only 37% have paid.  Please send in your $10 made payable to Harrisburg Rotary Foundation.

• It’s not too late to send in your Pancake Breakfast money.

• Our Club will match your contribution to the Rotary International Foundation.  Speed your way to your Paul Harris Fellowship.  Look for letter (serving as an invoice) in the mail.  So far half the available matching funds have been utilized.

• DISTRICT NEWS: To view the January Governor's Newsletter, go to www.rotary 7390.org and click on the District Newsletter tab.

• Find Harrisburg Rotary on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. We are just getting started with this, but if you would like more details, just reply to this newsletter and we'll give you the details.

ATTENDANCE:

LAST ROTARY MEETING:   1/10/11       59%
Rotarians   82      Active Specials   9         Guests    18        Visiting Rotarians  0  = 109
Minutes by Peter Henninger:
With President John in Haiti President-elect Bob called the meeting to order at 12:15 p.m.  Jeff Boswell led us in an invocation and Marion Alexander, accompanied by Norma Swain on the piano led us in singing “America”.  After the pledge to the flag we greeted our fellow Rotarians and guests.

Charlie McNutt then introduced guests and announced the Birthdays.  Then Corinne Rebinski  gave her mini-classification talk informing the club about her twenty-six year tenure with Brown, Schultz, Sheridan and Fritz and how she somewhat recently re-embarked on her career path after some years of full-time motherhood and work at BSSF.  Corinne shared some experiences of being born in Baden Baden Germany and introduced her partner Tom to those in attendance.  Corinne looks forward to her involvement with the club and the community we serve.

Pat Amice then introduced our students and teachers of the quarter from Sci-Tech and Harrisburg High: Ariel Snell whose goal is to become an Orthodontist, a profession near and dear to my heart (my wife Barbara is one) and Mathematics teacher Seth Hubbell from Sci-Tech, and Shawn Harrison a junior who enjoys baseball and math whose goal is to attend Florida State majoring in Chemical Engineering and Special education teacher Natasha Mathis from Harrisburg High.

President-elect Bob then introduced Chuck Wingate and reminded the club that there were still a couple of open slots for the sleepover program at the Bethesda Mission.  Contact Linda or Chuck for more details.

Bob Hostetter after a brief interlude regarding last weeks program then introduced her honor Linda Thompson, Mayor of Harrisburg.  Mayor Thompson began her speech by opining that the current crisis facing the city is due to years of decisions, a declining tax base, flawed collective bargaining agreements and the revenue options basically limited to real estate, earned income and local services taxes, can’t support the level of services being provided.  She additionally stated that even without the debacle which is the Harrisburg incinerator, this would still be true.

Mayor Thompson outlined certain aspects of what she termed “A new culture of efficiencies in city operations” such as elimination of 70 middle management positions, decreeing that city events such as the Arts festival and Kipona be self-sufficient and self-sustaining and the move of 911 operations to the county.  She talked briefly about the distressed city status request and her desire for a more regional as opposed to isolationist approach to issues of core communities such as the city.  She outlined areas she believes need addressed at the state level to “level the playing field” and requested everyone’s assistance in developing public/private partnerships like the Business Advisory Council, the executive loan program and strategic marketing groups she is establishing.

In closing, the Mayor expressed confidence that the city will eventually emerge from Act 47 status more viable and stronger and a model for other communities but that it will take regional cooperation, sacrifice and pain to achieve.

After a brief Q&A VP Bob reminded the membership that there is no meeting on MLK Day and that first year Rotarians will be conducting our next meeting on January 24 when we hope that Linda Lefevre, our program that day, will bring some samples!

OFFICERS:

DIRECTORS:

John P. Judson, M.D
Robert S. Saline              
Una Martone
Carolyn Dumaresq
Barry Ramper, II,             
William B. Boles

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

Sandra Beck
Caryn J. Carr
John R. Detweiler
Kent E. Frese
Lisa Lewis
John J. McHenry
Andrew R/ Rebuck
Karen F. Snider