Events

Rotary and ReUse continue their partnership with Mega Sort Parties to raise funds for local Community Grants, Youth Exchange, and International projects. Volunteers will sort and price donated items, with a portion of sales benefiting these initiatives.

Jeff Smith is President of Endwell Rotary and a PDG of former District 7170.  He is President of Tier Energy Network (TEN), a non-profit formed over 10 years ago to support development of an industry cluster in clean energy technology in the Southern Tier.  He serves as Secretary of ESRAG for Eastern North America.  He supports many organizations involved in economic development, community well-being and and environmental sustainability.  He and his wife Jeanne have 4 grown children and several grandchildren across the country

Dr. Ingrid Zabel is the Climate Change Education Manager at the Paleontological Research Institution. She strives to make climate change science accessible to the public via exhibits at the Museum of the Earth and the Cayuga Nature Center, online content, teacher resources, and education programs for youth and adults. She began working on climate change through research at the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, using radar to study the Greenland ice sheet. She then worked on surveillance radar at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and she now works in science education.

Peter Bardaglio is coordinator of the Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative and executive director of the Ithaca 2030 District, one of 24 such districts in the U.S. and Canada. He served as a history professor, dean, and provost for 24 years combined at Goucher College and

Ithaca College before shifting his focus to the climate and sustainability movements in 2007.

Besides his scholarly writings on race and gender in U.S. history, he is co-author of Boldly Sustainable: Hope and Opportunity for Higher Education in the Age of Climate Change (2009), and he has published numerous articles on climate change and sustainability. He currently serves on the boards of New Roots Charter School in Ithaca and the Groundswell Center for Local Food and Farming, and is trustee emeritus at the Paleontological Research Institution/Museum of the Earth.

Please come and enjoy conversation and great food with our youth exchange students, Isa, Stanley, and Filip and their host families and the newly chosen outgoing exchange students and their famililes.

Members please bring a dish-to-share.

If possible, use this guide for what to bring. If not possible, just bring whatever is easiest.

Last names A-H    Main dishes (meat or fish protein, vegetarian or vegan--plese mark)

Last names I-N   Side dishes (salads, vegetables, grains, etc.

Last names O-T   Desserts  (again mark vegan and non-vegan)

Last names U-Z    Appetizers if you can come early; Drinks

Host families, please don't worry about bringing a dish-to-share. We are so grateful for your support. 

The club will supply drinks, cups and plates, napkins and silverware.

Please register to attend. It will help us plan. 

Thank you,

Jean McPheeters and Mary Berens

for the Youth Exchange Committee

Laura Vineyard, is the Executive Director of the Center for Community Transportation (CCT). An Ithaca local, she has a strong background in community organizing, nonprofit leadership, and entrepreneurship. CCT envisions a community where travel by shared and active transportation is healthy, safe, affordable, and convenient for all. CCT's mission-focused services and activities include Ithaca Carshare, Bike Walk Tompkins, and Ithaca Bikeshare, emphasizing social equity and environmental sustainability in this era of new transportation options and emerging mobility trends.