Upcoming meetings and events - click links for sign-up sheets
Bold indicates meeting in the club room,
(V) is a volunteer opportunity, (D) is a district event, BM is board meeting
April – Environmental
9 – BM; Local Folk
16 – Spring Fling dinner at Golden Oaks
19 (V) - Pollinator Garden clean up
23 – SDS Design
27 (V) - Seed cutting for iHartHarvest
30– 100th Anniversary update
May – Youth Services
7 – Student of the Month
14 – Area 3 Picnic
21 – BM; Rose Galeano-Phillips
28 – Exchange student farewell
Meeting this week
Meeting this Wednesday, April 9, will be at the Kutztown Tavern Club Room where we will hear fromKutztown shop owner and artist, Kathleen Walck of Local Folk, who will speak about her upcoming workshops and events for the community.
Located on Main Street in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, Local Folk provides a retail space for regional artisans to sell their work, and also offers unique folk art-themed gifts and goods for sale.
The studio also offers creative workshops, usually on Sundays, taught by Kathleen, the owner, and occasional guest artisans who sell their work in the shop.
Spring Fling dinner at Golden Oaks on April 16, 2025
Please sign up by April 9
We will be ordering off the menu, but we need a head count for reservation purposes. Please add your name and total number of people to thesign-up list here, or send an email to Melissaat melissakrotary@gmail.com.
Please join us to help out at the Pollinator Garden at Camp Edmar for Rotary Day of Service on April 19, 2025. We will work in the afternoon from 1:00 to approximately 4:00. Please bring work gloves and water. More details will be provided closer to the date (including where we will hang out afterwards for some social time).
IHartHarvest, Inc. - The Potato Project, Seed Potato Cutting.
Rain or Shine, Bare bones event, bring your own knife, cutting board, drinks, and snacks. We'll be cutting the seed potatoes for the 2025 planting season at Becker's St. Peter's ELC, 265 Maidencreek Rd., Fleetwood (Molltown) PA 19522.
If you are interested, please email Bob Hobaugh to sign up or get more information.
Kutztown Rotary Club is supporting Friend Inc.'s 35th Annual Auction held on May 3!
The Kutztown Rotary Club is excited to support this incredible cause as an "Executive Baker" for the event. Club member, Laura McBride, will be baking a dessert to auction at the event. You can support the Kutztown Rotary Club fundraising goal by buying your tickets for the event, sponsoring the event, or donating on the following page:Laura McBride Fundraising Page. The event includes a catered dinner, drinks, live music, and the chance to bid on our dessert created by club member Laura McBride!
Friend, Inc. Community Services is a social support organization that, for over 40 years, works tirelessly to reduce food insecurity and other household economic pressures on families throughout rural northeast Berks County. We hope to see you all there!
Last Wednesday, April 2, members of the Kutztown Rotary Club celebrated the Student of the Month ceremony. One student from each of Kutztown Area High School and Brandywine Heights Area High School is selected by school administrators each month throughout the school year for this award based collectively on academic achievement, school participation, and community contributions. Pictures below show Susanna and Lilia, both students from Kutztown who were celebrated for March and for April. The student from Brandywine was unable to attend and will join in a ceremony later in the year.
Both Susanna and Lilia addressed the club members at the Ceremony where they demonstrated qualities of exemplary students. They entertained questions from the club members showed off their talents. The ceremony normally occurs during the Kutztown Rotary meeting on the first Wednesday of the month at the Kutztown Tavern, where the weekly meetings for the club generally take place.
Kutztown Rotary Club will celebrate a 100-year anniversary in April of 2026 and so is celebrating the whole year of 2026!
To kick things off, we are starting our
Centennial Service Campaign - Celebrating Rotary's 7 Areas of Focus (April, Environmental Service) with a NexTrex challenge recycling program. Follow this link to see what type of plastics to start saving. We will update with drop off instructions soon!
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