SEPTEMBER DINING OUT
Fourteen AW Rotarians and friends gathered at Madeline’s restaurant in Fogelsville on Thursday evening September 26th. The food was excellent, as was the many conversations. The service was good also.
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NON-PROFIT AWARENESS EXPO: On Saturday, October 5th our Rotary Club. participated in the Non Profit Awareness Expo held at the Lehigh Valley Mall from 11 to 3 PM. Here is a photo of our volunteers who told others our AW Rotary story. |
 Yum! What better way to start your morning than with lemon-blueberry or orange-cranberry scones, fresh from the oven with our breakfast? Baker Stephanie Fenstermacher brought the treats to illustrate her classification talk on Jan. 16. Beginning with her roots as a farm girl, helping out on the family produce stand, marriage to her high school sweetheart, raising a family with three children, and becoming a Human Resources professional, Stephanie shared with us how she learned to open her eyes to the needs of humanity, and eventually, to her own need to do more for herself. Eventually, that desire led her to turn in her HR badge and open her bakery. Along the way, Stephanie and her family took time out to head down to Moore, OK, to help the community that was devastated after being struck by a tornado; a precursor to becoming a Rotarian, as Stephanie opened her heart to the people who needed whatever help she had to offer. "The one thing my business plan didn't account for," Stephanie explained, with a laugh, "was that it would be successful!" And now that it is, watch for a storefront to open up for The Buttered Crumb in New Tripoli as plans are underway to take the bakery out of the house and onto the street! What a sweet treat! |
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AWRC SERVICE PROJECTS Annual report – June 2014 The AWRC Club Service Committee has had a very busy year with our numerous projects. The two main projects now are the Snack Pack project and the Lowhill Food Pantry support. Snack Pack program … We started the program at Northwestern Lehigh School District in October, 2013 and served 40 students twice a month thru February. In March we increased to 52 students twice a month but in May had three deliveries. We distributed 722 Snack Packs at Northwestern for this past School year. The Lowhill Food Pantry partnered with us on this project as they paid for one filling a month. Parkland’s Snack Pack program originally was to begin in January of 2014. Snow storms and school cancellations prevented this from happening. So the program didn’t start until March at which time we supplied 40 students twice a month with Snack Packs. From April to the end of the school year, we increased the number to (80) students. A total of 560 Snack Packs were distributed at Parkland. Letters looking for financial partners for this program have been sent to other service clubs, churches, and businesses. This amazing program that provides food and other items to needy students over the weekends has been made possible by two District Grants awarded to the Allentown-West Rotary Club and funds from our club Foundation. A similar District Grant has been approved to support the 2014-15 academic year. Lowhill Food Pantry In this Rotary year we collected $2,940. With that money we purchased 10,178 lbs. of fresh produce and groceries, along with socks and towels for the Blessings Room. The giving for the project this year was over $1100. more than last year. With Amos Burkholder’s generosity of sharing his excess produce at a reduced rate, we gave over 8,100 more lbs. of food this year, most of which was fresh locally grown produce. Another BIG THANK YOU goes out to the Rotarians and their spouses who schedule themselves to work the Food Pantry. Consider volunteering, even if it is only once. You will see firsthand what our Club is doing for this need in the community. Meals on Wheels On Veteran’s Day, November 11, 2013, we had 15 club members help deliver a hot meals and a bag lunch to homebound, physically challenged people, on nine different routes throughout Lehigh County. On Presidents’ Day, February 17, 2014 we were scheduled to help again with the deliveries, but due to the bad weather that was anticipated, the Coordinator of Volunteers felt it best, for the safety of our members NOT to come out. This is such a worthwhile and gratifying project. It just takes about 2 hours of your time, over the lunch hour. You do go out on a route with another person, one drives, while the other delivers the meals. There are over 30 routes to cover. Purple Pinkie 5K Run/Walk . This event supports Rotary’s world-wide work to eradicate the disease Polio. It was held at DeSales University in November 2013 and was conducted by the DeSales Rotaract Club studenst. Approximately 10 Club members and family ran or walked along with 8 Interact Club students. $610 was donated to Polio Plus through this effort. Park Cleanup: With our stellar crew of enthusiastic Rotarians, last Fall we did mulching, pruning, and weeding at Ontelaunee, having a successful day. This past Spring we again had a successful day of mulching, pruning , and weeding at Ontelaunee. At Rodale Park this Spring it was just mulching, and lots of it, but with experienced landscape maintenance men from Allentown West Rotary, we made short work of it, indeed.
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