Events

Rotary has adopted the cleanup of 422 from Ceylon Avenue to Howard Avenue.  We will have our spring cleanup on Saturday, May 24th 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.

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.

Ben Fredrick, MD graduated from Penn State College of Medicine in 2000. He then completed a family residency at York Hospital in York, PA. After residency, Dr. Fredrick returned to Hershey and joined the Family and Community Medicine Department as a faculty member. Dr. Fredrick serves as Global Health Center Director and has developed a nationally unique Global Health Scholars Program available for our medical students. This program includes activities in Peru, Ecuador, Senegal, and Sierra Leone.

Since 2007, Dr. Fredrick and his family have been involved in supporting a rural area in Haiti called Pestel.. Throughout this time, Dr. Fredrick and his wife established a non-profit organization called Thriving Villages International in order to better assist the health and development needs of Pestel.

Summer's almost here! Now's the perfect time to get to know some new people who also love doing community service.

Join us on Wednesday June 4th, 2025 at 5:30-6:30 at the Best Western Plus at 1800 E. Chocolate Ave Hershey. Come out and help plan the next schedule of Community Service Events.

Vista Autism Services is looking for volunteers to help out at their upcoming 18th Annual Vista Golf Classic at Dauphin Highlands Golf Course.

This event helps to support over 500 adults and children we support throughout 11 different programs in 10 counties across Central, PA.

The help needed is broken up in shifts. Please take a look to see if you can help out for a couple of hours.

 18th Annual Vista Golf Classic — Signup Sheet | SignUp.com

Please join your Fellow Rotarians for this very important event.  President Chip Bayer will lead the Annual Hershey Rotary Club Assembly.  Lane Chairs will present their reports and discuss the upcoming 2025-2026 Rotary Year.  It's an exciting opportunity to see where we were and where we go next.  

Please join Hershey Rotary for one of the most inspirational events of the year,  as we welcome the Army War College International Fellows to Hershey Lodge.  

Each year approximately eighty senior military officers from around the world are extended an invitation from the Chief of Staff of the United States Army to attend the U.S. Army War College.

The academic year is full of studying, research, and fellowship as these officers are instructed in areas ranging from military concepts and doctrine to national and theater level strategies.

This gathering is one of our most visible opportunities to show that Peace is one of Rotary's most important missions.  

The hope of this meeting of officers from around the Globe  is that should conflict ever break out, an  International Fellows officer from Country A will see an International Fellows officer from Country B, across the table, and together, they can work toward a peaceful solution.     

Come hear Reverend Stephen McKinney-Whitaker, Derry Presbyterian Church, address the history of  Derry Township and the connection to Derry, Northern Ireland.