Carlisle Rotary April Newsletter (Mar. 31, 2024)

March was a busy month for Carlisle Rotary.

We had seven members attend the District 7390 Learning Assembly at Central Penn College on March 24.

Thank you to Judy Wheaton, Deborah Sweeney and our Leadership Cumberland intern, Rachel Kennedy, for setting up a table at the Leadership Cumberland Non-profit Volunteer Fair on March 14th. It was also nice to see our friends from Carlisle Sunrise there, including President Charlie Stoup and Harold Cooney (pictured below).

We have another great line-up for April (see the section below for our upcoming programs). Better yet, come join us this Thursday at noon, Comfort Suites.

Service:

• Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA). Our new Rotarian, Michelle Palmer-Felton, is joining Michelle Lisk to organize our region’s student representatives for the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA), Rotary's leadership training program for young people, which will occur June 9 – 13 at Messiah University. Junior students at the Boiling Springs and Carlisle high schools are encouraged to apply through their counseling center.
https://rotary7390.org/page/ryla.

• April Brags support Rotary Veteran's Initiative.

Programs:
(Thu 12pm at the Comfort Suites):

• 11 Apr – Amelia Given Library – Cindy Thompson & Boiling Springs Student of the Month

• 18 Apr – Shippensburg President – Charles Patterson

• 25 Apr – Cumberland County Prothonotary – Dale Sabadish

• 2 May– Carlisle High School Student Research Project Presentations

Please bring a friend to one of our meetings/events

All are welcome!

Special Thanks to:

• Rotarian Yvette Davis for hosting our meeting at Allison Conference Room on Dickinson Campus. Our speaker, Chad Lassiter was very informative, and we had a great crowd.

• Rotarian Cindy Gleim-Pool for organizing our Flower's for Scholars fundraiser this year.

• Rotarian Jonathan Anthony for organizing our Spring Into Action 2024 Disc Golf Fundraiser on May 11, 2024. That same day, we will again be hanging baskets in downtown Carlisle.

Please mark your calendars to help with hanging the flowers or with our Disc Golf tournament.
Service Above Self!

Don't wait to order your hanging baskets (only $25) to support our student of the month program. Sign up with Cindy Gleim-Pool at a meeting or email her at cgleimpool@jwgleim.com NLT May 1st. Flowers can be picked up on Wednesday, May 8, 2024 from 12-6pm at 625 Hamilton St., Carlisle, PA.

Many thanks to Carlisle High School students Aedan Shevlin, Paige Harrell, and Greta Weirich for their performance of selections from a recent production of PIPPIN, the musical. Rotarians enjoyed the energy, entertainment, and talents from the students and the character’s they portrayed!

Carlisle Rotary supported the Carlisle Exchange Club with their Pinwheel Project publicizing child abuse. Our pinwheel garden in located in a planter in front of the Comfort Suites. All profits will be donated to Domestic Violence of Cumberland and Perry County.

Carlisle High School Student of the Month for March:

Ella Shatz