Events

Join our event chairs and fellow veteran's Chip Bayer and Jim Gainer as we celebrate and honor Veteran's of Hershey Rotary, and around the world.  Thank you for your service. 

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

Join us for a special event Dinner with The Phantom at The Hershey Italian Lodge.  The event will be in their upstairs dining room with a buffet style sit down meal including delicious italian pastas with perfectly presented beef or pork, salads, sides, and desserts.

All proceeds will go to support international projects of the Rotary Club of Hershey, including:

• Global Health Scholars and projects in countries such as Africa (Ghana) and Asia (Nepal), as part of the Penn State Health Milton S Hershey Penn State College of Medicine Global Health Center.
• Additional global grant support to address glaring needs where access to health care and basic needs such as clean water is limited as well as the other Rotary International 7 Areas of Focus: Water and Sanitation, Economic and Community Development, Maternal and Child Health, Supporting the Environment, Casic Education and Literacy, Disease Preventation and Treatment, Peace and Conflict Prevention/Resolution.

Please save the date for our annual Global Health Night event with the Global Health Center. Join us to celebrate our Global and Rural Health Pathway Scholars and see highlights from our programs and sites.

Please RSVP at the link below.

Global Health Night 2025

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.

Join Harold Nightwine in feeding the families at the Ronald McDonald House. 

Rotary Means Business

Register yourself and your Guests at Rotary Means Business - November 10, 2025

Fellow Rotarians, join us to hear our November Students of the Month from Middletown, Milton Hershey and Hershey High Schools.  It's always a winner!!! 

Our Member Spotlight this month is Alex Hayes.

'Tis the season of giving, and what better way to spread joy and support those in need than by becoming a Salvation Army Bell Ringer? The Salvation Army has been a beacon of hope for countless individuals and families in their times of need for over a century. 

Sign up to be a Salvation Army Bell Ringer today and ring in the holiday season with a heart full of warmth and a bell in your hand. Together, we can make this holiday season one to remember for all the right reasons.

'Tis the season of giving, and what better way to spread joy and support those in need than by becoming a Salvation Army Bell Ringer? The Salvation Army has been a beacon of hope for countless individuals and families in their times of need for over a century. 

Sign up to be a Salvation Army Bell Ringer today and ring in the holiday season with a heart full of warmth and a bell in your hand. Together, we can make this holiday season one to remember for all the right reasons.

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

Please join us for our Annual Holiday Luncheon with music and an inspiring message. Be sure to invite widows/widowers of former Rotary Club of Hershey members to come and share a meal. 

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.

Alliance of Therapy Dogs (ATD) an international registry of certified therapy dog teams. ATD, providing testing, certification, registration, support, and insurance for members who volunteer with their dogs in animal-assisted activities. Forming a network of caring individuals and their special dogs who are willing to share smiles and joy with people, young and old alike.

Dog teams provide therapy in many settings, including but not limited to airports, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, rehab facilities, mental health institutions, schools, hospitals, cancer centers, hospice facilities, college campuses and can also provide therapy in patients’ homes.

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

Fellow Rotarians, join us to hear our January Students of the Month from Middletown, Milton Hershey and Hershey High Schools.  It's always a winner!!! 

Become better acquianted with Josh Hooks, this months Member Spotlight.

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.

Fellow Rotarians, if you want to know that the world will be in good hands, join us to hear our February Students of the Month from Middletown, Milton Hershey and Hershey High Schools. 

Welcome Mike Smoluk as this month's Member Spotlight.

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

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.

Join Harold Nightwine in feeding the families at the Ronald McDonald House. 

Join us to recognize the March Students of the Month from Milton Hershey School, Hershey High Scholol and Middletown High School. Followed by our Rotarian Spotlight, Eileen Voyles. 

We are seeking volunteers to score and rank essays written by 9th grade students from Hershey, Middletown, and Milton Hershey Schools.

Essay reviews are typically completed independently using feedback forms, followed by discussion to determine winners. Essays may be up to 1,500 words in length.

Awards to be presented: 1st Place: $500, 2nd Place: $300 and 3rd Place: $200.  Winners advance to the Rotary District Competition, with the opportunity to earn additional prize money.

The deadline to submit our selected essays to the District is February 16.  We'll do a final review on March 4th to determine winnners.

Hershey Rotary Speech Contest

We are looking for volunteers to score and rank speeches from 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students from Hershey, Middletown, and Milton Hershey Schools. Students will deliver 5–7 minute speeches based on Rotary’s Four-Way Test.

The contest will take place at Milton Hershey School on Saturday, March 7, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Awards to be presented: 1st Place: $500, 2nd Place: $300 and 3rd Place: $200

Winners advance to the Rotary District Competition, with the opportunity to earn additional prize money.

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

Hershey High School has been granted the opportunity to host the PA Academic Decathlon State Championship this year, and are recruiting judges for this event.

Top Academic Decathlon teams in PA will meet at Hershey High School on March 13 and 14, and they need judges for our Essay, Speech, and Interview events. We hope you will consider registering to serve as a judge at this long-running wonderful event and opportunity for these students. No prior experience is necessary to serve as a judge.

Essay judges will receive a free lunch as thanks for your help in judging these tournaments, and Speech/Interview judges will have a hot breakfast during orientation. 

If you would like to throw your hat in the ring as a judge this year or to see all the details, check out the registration form HERE.

Please don't hesitate to call State Director Phil Cerami at 610-505-1307 if you have any questions. 

@@@Please note if you sign up through the above link to also let Joe Alfano know if your involvement at joseph.alfano@vistaautismservices.org so that you can receive credit and acknowledgement through Rotary. Thanks!@@@

Please join us to hear the winning essay and speaches. 

March is National Women in History Month. Today, we will recognise the service and leadership of women past and present in the Rotary Club of Hershey.

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.

Join us at Country Meadows in Hershey as we greet and honor Rotarians who call Country Meadows home, and pay tribute to our honorary member and pianist for many years, Jan Dunkle. Light refreshments and beverages are complimentary. There is free parking. Look for us at the front entrance of the main building.

Join us for a presentation by Dauphin County Deputy Chief Clerk, Vincent Paese. Learn about the various programs and celebrations leading up to July 4th commerating our country's 250th Birthday. 

Dr. Stacy Winslow, Superintendent of Derry Township School District

Easter Monday is more than a name

• Christmas is always on December 25, Thanksgiving the 4th Thursday in November, and July 4th is self-explanatory. Easter, however, is calculated quite differently. It comes the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox. For this reason, the unofficial holiday can come as early as the third Sunday in March and as late as the fourth Sunday in April. The day after is known as Easter Monday and it is much more than an acknowledgment of the day that proceeds it.
• Perhaps you have wondered about the significance of this date and how or why it came to be. There was a time in America when this date was observed nationally although Easter is not a national federal holiday. Americans who did not believe in what the day represented, respected those who did. Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox, do celebrate the day as a legal holiday as part of their cultural tradition.

Easter Monday long past

• Some American businesses were closed on the Monday following Easter Sunday years ago and children were off from school for Good Friday and Easter Monday prior to having an entire week as a break. Some people of faith scheduled paid time off from their jobs on Easter Monday and churches, as well as individuals, hosted egg hunts because the children were out of school.
• Today students have an entire week of spring break which does not always coincide with the Sunday designated to observe the Christian celebration of Christ's resurrection. It can be the weeks prior to or the one that follows what has become known as Holy week. American schools once allowed students to decorate with Easter decorations and have holiday programs but educators today no longer can mention Easter or Christmas. This is because the separation of church and state is being emphasized more in modern society

Easter Monday Celebrations in different cultures

• Easter Monday in some cultures is called Renewal Monday, or Bright Monday, which is a time to reflect on the meaning of the season. In Catholicism, the day is known as the Monday of the angel. The day after Easter/Resurrection Sunday for some is the official ending of all that leads up to the date before the work week resumes.
• Easter Monday for many is the culmination of all that has taken place beginning with Madi Gras, which includes Fat Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, Lent, and all Holy week observances. Although America does not officially recognize Easter Monday it is a public holiday in many other countries worldwide.
• In Eastern Christianity, the Monday that follows Resurrection Sunday marks the second day of Octave which is an 8-day celebration beginning on Easter Sunday and ending the following Sunday. In Western Christianity, this is called the week of Eastertide.

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

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.

Come see how our Club's District Grant is making a difference at the Leader Center for Active Life. If you are able to come early, from 10:30 - 11:00 AM, you can tour the Leader Center and see the impact our District Grant is having. Doors open for the luncheon at 11:00 AM and lunch is served at 11:30 AM. Lunch is followed by entertainment by guitarist Matt Miski.

Pete will updates us on the latest happenings at Milton Hershey and Catherine Hershey Early Education Schools

Rotary has adopted the cleanup of 422 from Ceylon Avenue to Howard Avenue.  We will have our spring cleanup on Saturday, April 25th from 9am – 11am and are looking for 10 volunteers.  This coincides with Downtown Hershey Association's Kiss Hershey Back cleanup on the same day.

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.

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.

Join Derenda Updegrave in feeding the families at the Ronald McDonald House.