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
March – Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
12 – BM; Lehigh County Authority
19 – Horses for Heroes
(V) 23 – Kutztown Kitchen
26 – Artist Studio Social Event
April – Environmental
(D) 4-6 District conference
2 – Student of the Month
9 – BM; Meredith Drumheller
16 – Spring Fling dinner
23 – Holly Diefenderfer
30– 100th Anniversary update
Meeting this Wednesday, March 12
Meeting this Wednesday, March 12 will be at the Kutztown Tavern Club Room and will be sponsored by member Chris Peterson.
The speaker is Liesel Gross, the CEO of Lehigh County Authority.
Lehigh County Authority is a Public, Non-Profit Water and Wastewater Utility, committed to providing unparalleled service to residents and businesses in all our service areas.
Next Service opportunity: Kutztown Kitchen on March 23, 2025.
We will be preparing Irish Stew again and will manage the meal as we did last year by shopping for the ingredients and then cooking the meal at the church.
Artist Studio Social Activity Wednesday, March 26, 6:00 pm
We will be visiting Karen Palcho is an artist and teacher in Oley offering a variety of classes including fermenting, foraging and making your own botanicals. People attending should bring a beverage (wine, beer or nonalcoholic) and snack to share.Please follow this link to sign up.
Please remember to tell the club secretary (Melissa Kirk) who/what your programming will be for your assigned meeting night no later than 6 weeks before your date. If you cannot provide a program for your assigned date, please switch with someone and let Melissa know as soon as possible. The current meeting list can be found at this link.
On deck for April is: Meredith (April 9) and Holly (April 23).
Meeting last week, March 5 - Student of the month and 4-way speech test
Last Wednesday, March 5, 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 Benjamin and Alyssa, the students from Brandywine who were celebrated for January and for March. The student from Kutztown was unable to attend and will join in a ceremony later in the year.
Both Benjamin and Alyssa addressed the club members at the Ceremony where they demonstrated qualities of exemplary students. 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.
In addition, we also celebrated the student 4-way test speech competition.
The 4-Way Speech Contest was developed by Rotarians to promote critical thinking and ethical decision making among high school students. The contest encourages students to develop speaking and leadership skills to influence others on a topic for which they are passionate. The contestants create a speech 5-7 minutes in length addressing an ethical problem of their choice using the principles of the 4-Way Test. These principles must be an integral part of the speech and students are judged based on content, organization, and delivery.
Our exchange student, Leander, and this year's Berk's County Alternate Dairy Princess, Brinley, competed in the contest. Brinley was the winner for this competition will move on to the Regional contest, possibly followed by competition at the District level. Cash prizes are awarded at all levels.
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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