Events

Come and help assemble meal packs for hundreds of children around our community.

Robert Torres, former PA Secretary of Aging, heads the newest Tec Centro location in Harrisburg.

Tec Centro Workforce Network is opening a sixth location to serve disproportionately disadvantaged populations with adult basic education and occupational training.

Tec Centro Capital Region will provide community-based bilingual workforce development to serve the unemployed or underemployed. A location in Harrisburg will be selected by the end of this month.

The network currently has two locations in Lancaster city and one each in Berks, Lebanon and York counties.

Come and help distribute food to hundreds of children and families in our community from the parking lot of the Spring Creek Church of the Brethren.

Hershey Rotary Club Information Booth at the 2024 Pumpkin Fest at the Middletown Home.

Please consider spending a couple hours at the Booth on Saturday 9/21 or Sunday 9/22 between 10am and 8pm both days. We will have an opportunity to talk to hundreds of local community members about how Rotary impacts the community and the World. We are the Rotary Club that supports the Middletown community and we want to make a bigger impact and reach out to this community.

Here's a bonus if you stay late either night:

Saturday there is a 7 pm Concert that will last till 9 pm when we will set off fireworks.

Sunday, the Concert Finale is Uptown Band and they'll start at 6 pm and play till 7:30 pm. 

Join your fellow Rotarians in welcoming Steve Cruz of Visit Hershey and Harrisburg. 

The Hershey Rotary Run/Walk is a family-friendly fundraising event for Cocoa Packs which provides supplemental food and other support to local children in need to enhance their overall wellness. One hundred percent of the proceeds raised will go to support Cocoa Packs. Enjoy a 5k run or walk on the Milton Hershey School Campus while supporting a great cause. The event is pet and stroller friendly.

For more details and to register, click HERE.

Fellow Rotarians, please join us as we welcome Chief Garth Warner for a talk on all things Derry Township.

The School Year is in session and it's time to welcome our October Students of the Month from Hershey, Milton Hershey and Middletown High Schools.  

Rotary has adopted the cleanup of 422 from Ceylon Avenue to Howard Avenue.  We will have our fall cleanup on Saturday, October 26^st from 9am – 11am and are looking for 8 volunteers.  

Materials have been ordered for the cleanup (gloves, bags …) and we have Rotary Vests to wear to advertise our club. 

Details on the cleanup segment:  2-mile stretch on 422 from Ceylon Avenue heading east to Howard Avenue.  The intersection of Ceylon and 422 is the Tender Years Child Development Center across from the The Hershey Company headquarters.   The Howard Avenue intersection is just past the Cocoa Country Inn and The Outfitters Ski shop.  Below is a map.

History of Adopt-A-Highway:  In 1984 the idea for the Adopt A Highway program was born when James Evans, an engineer for the Texas Department of Transportation, witnessed litter blowing out of the back of a pickup truck he was following in Tyler Texas. Concerned about the increasing cost to the government of keeping roadways clean, Evans began asking community groups to volunteer to pick up trash along designated sections of local state highways. Evans got few takers for his idea, however, in 1985, Billy Black, the Public Information Officer for the Texas Department of Transportation took up the cause and organized the first official Adopt A Highway program. In April of 1990, The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) began its Adopt A Highway (AAH) program. Since 1990, volunteers have been beautifying roadsides two miles at a time.

Todd Leiss is committed to educating the public about the "Move Over" laws and what happens when you don't move over!!   Please join us for the dynamic and thought provoking presentation.  You will be talking about it for weeks. 

Please join us as we honor and celebrate our November Students of the Month from Middletown, Milton Hershey and Hershey High Schools!

Join us we celebrate and honor Veteran's of Hershey Rotary, and around the world.  Thank you for your service

Please join us as Hershey Rotary welcomes our own District Govenor Paul Thompson,  

Paul is the epitomy of "service above self" and he'll tell us of his plans for Rotary 2024-2025.  

Paul Thompson has served as President of the Hershey Rotary Club, a member of the District Global Grant Scholarship Committee, and has been extensively involved with the Rotary Youth Exchange Program.

Paul and his Rotarian wife, Maria, have four children who have all participated in community and global service projects. Two were outbound exchange students, and the Thompson family has hosted eleven inbound students.

In community activities, Paul has served as President of the Hershey Historical Society and Chairman of the Hershey Area Playhouse.

Paul’s academic degrees include a Master of Security Studies, a Juris Doctorate and Master of Jurisprudence, and a Doctorate of Law and Policy. He has travelled to seven continents, resided abroad for extended periods, and is conversant in German, French, and Turkish.

Paul served in career military assignments as a Naval Officer on Amphibious deployment in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, as attache at the U.S. Embassy in Turkey, as a JAGC officer in trial and appellate military justice positions, as senior counsel to the Chief of Naval Operations, and as Executive Assistant to three National Security Advisors at the National Security Council.

Most recently, Paul served as a Professor of Law and National Security at the National War College, and as Associate Professor of Homeland Security at Penn State University. Paul and Maria are Paul Harris Fellows and Major Donors.