Our Greeter today was Ernie Boll and he did a marvelous job.
President Jeanne Shipe rang the bell at 7:30 A.M. to open the meeting and welcomed all. Then Ernie Boll gave a very nice invocation.
GUESTS:.
David Faust, Deputy Sheriff; Joe Hanna, Sheriff.
Pres. Jeanne began the meeting having the members recite the 4 Way Test, followed with our saying the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. Flag.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
MEMORIAL SERVICE:
Pres. Jeanne noted that there were at least 15 AW Rotarians that attended the Celebration of Life for Joel Masiko on Monday.
PICTURES:
Pres. Jeanne showed some recent AW photos. First was the Second Harvest Area 1 RCs’ garden project. Then we saw photos from the Camp Neidig weekend just completed, including Mike Gschwendtner.
HEALTH CHECK RESULTS -- PART 1:
Gwenn Carr issued a summary. See separate article.
DISTRICT CHANGEOVER:
Monday June 24 is our annual District 7430 Changeover Dinner and Awards at DeSales University. Our own DGE Herb Klotz officially will be transformed into our next District Governor. Let’s all sign up and go.
BUDGET PROJECTS REVIEW:
The July 17 and July 24 regular meetings will be used to review the requested project funding for 2019-20.
THURSDAY EVENING MEETING:
July 11 at the Holiday Inn at 5:30 P.M. is our next meeting.
NEXT MEETING IS June 26 with Gary Englehardt as the Greeter. The program is our Annual AWRC Changeover. Please attend to be part of P-E Amir Famili become our new RC President as we thank Jeanne Shipe for her good year of service.
Pres. Jeanne introduced our substitute Sgt-at-Arms, Geoff Legg who collected Happy Dollars. There were no raffle drawings today.
HAPPY DOLLARS:
Barbara Kistler is happy that she and Jeff experienced a fabulous Alaskan cruise and train ride celebrating 50 years of marriage. They saw many animals and Denali Mountain in the clear.
Ernie Boll continues just plain happy.
Jeanne Shipe is happy that last week’s wedding she attended was great.
Chris Blechschmidt is happy that his Mom just returned from her good trip to Alaska, although the plane ride going there was a challenge.
Al Lewis was reminded by Jeff Kistler’s sighting of a Moose in Alaska, that he had a Bull Moose in his back yard up in the Adirondacks last Summer.
Joe Hanna, our speaker, is happy to be with us today.
Dan Crane put in $5 “Just for fun.”
David Haight had a great trip over last weekend.
Geoff Legg is happy to report that his Grandson made the Dean’s List at Hamilton University.
Geoff also is proud that his Doctor daughter has, for a second time, been invited to a function on the West Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC.
PROGRAM:
The program today was Joseph Hanna discussing “The Role of Lehigh County Sheriff in Our Community.”
P-E Amir Famili introduced his friend, Lehigh County Sheriff, Joseph Hanna, and gave Joe’s background. Joe Hanna was born and raised in Allentown PA. and has been a lifelong resident of Lehigh County. Educated in the Allentown Public School System, he continued his higher education at Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA. earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Criminal Justice in 1978.
In 1979 he joined the ranks of the Allentown Police Department. Over the next thirty-four years he worked his way through the ranks from Patrol Officer to Allentown’s top cop, Chief of Police. Upon retirement Sheriff Hanna transitioned to the Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office as a County Detective.
Committed to advanced law enforcement training and education, Sheriff Hanna himself is a graduate of the premier Northwestern University School of Police Staff and Command and the U.S. Department of Justice FBI National Academy. He served as Director of Training at the Allentown Police Academy where he continues to be a part time adjunct instructor for police recruits
Their website describes “ Office of the Sheriff ---
“The Office of the Sheriff serves all original civil, criminal and protection from abuse documents issued by the Court of Common Pleas. The office also provides security for the County's courtrooms, judges and buildings. The Sheriff's Office transports prisoners, holds sales to collect debts on both real and personal property, investigates and apprehends fugitives and bail jumpers and preserves the peace at riots and civil strike injunctions.
“In addition, the Sheriff's Office issues permits to carry a concealed weapon within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. These permits are issued only after an appropriate background investigation is completed.”
Joe thanked AW Rotarians for the work that we do. He described the office structure and said that his annual budget is about $7 million. About 97% of that is for salaries and wages. In 2018 Joe’s department had 2300 employees.
Joe listed the risks associated with their work. He said “We never know what is on the other side of a door.”
Joe showed a picture of their Canine cop that was added last year. She is an explosives sniffer and has prevented some evacuations by establishing some unknown packages as safe.
Joe showed another side of his job with a video of him making a very ill boy the “Sheriff for the day.” It even included a ride in the cruiser and some siren sounds.
Joe took some questions from the audience. And he concluded again thanking us for the time to visit.
CLOSING:
Pres. Jeanne closed our meeting by our reciting the saying “One profits most who serves best.”
Good Photos by Gary Heller
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