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Pinchot Park Nativity School Event!

6/7/2012

 
Dear Rotary Club,

Tuesday, June 12th will be our day at Gifford Pinchot Park with the Nativity School from 4pm - 7pm. If you can get there early around 3:30 to help set up that is great. If not that is fine. And it is okay if you can only come to part of the event also.

Attached is a map of the Gifford Pinchot State Park. We are meeting in the parking lot of the Conewago Day Use Area. All the activities will take place in this one area of the park.  

Directions
From Harrisburg take 83 South to Exit 35 toward PA-177/Lewisberry. Then turn right onto Yorktown Rd in about 0.1 mi. Then take 1st left onto Wyndamere Rd/PA177 and continue on that.  Turn Left onto Alpine Road and follow that around the park to the Conewago Day Use Area entrance to the park. There is a large parking lot there.  

Here is a link to the park website:
http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/findapark/giffordpinchot/index.htm.


The website gives an address you can put into the GPS but that will take you to the entrance on the other side of the park. So you can follow the GPS using that address till you are on PA177 and just remember to turn left onto Alpine road to go to the other side of the park.

On the attached Map you will see the entrance to the Conewago Day Use area parking lot. Go in that entrance to the parking lot to the T and make a left, the nature center is in the far left corner of the lot. The nature center icon on the attached map is a man with his arms in a "T" and he is encircled by a couple of rings.

Also attached is the latest version of the sign up sheet. There will be 6 stations for the kids: woodlore/lashing, tree walk, fishing, disc golf, nature class and cooking. 30 kids from the Nativity School are coming and will be split up into 6 groups. So there will be 5 kids at each station at one time. You just need to come and be ready to have fun in the outdoors!!!

Hope everyone has a great week!

Thanks,
Alicia

March Program Information!

2/14/2012

 

March 6: Kristen Hertzog, Executive Director of  Haitian Connection
Network (HCN), a 501c3 non profit organization, headquartered in Lancaster
County, PA. They run a safe Student Computer Center located in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti where students can earn an AA in Business Admin or
Computer Science, on-line and tuition-free through the U.S.-based
University of the People. Their partners include Yale University Law
School, NYU, Hewlett Packard and the Clinton Global Initiative. HCN then
provides opportunities for internships and post-graduation job placement
assistance within Haiti via a collaborative professional network. Their
website is: http://www.haitianconnectionnetwork.org/

March 13: Jeffrey Tinsman who is the Chairman of the Board of Directors
for the Harrisburg Area River Boat Society will be speaking. They maintain
and operate the Pride of Susquehanna that does river boat cruises during
the spring and summer.  They are a 501(c)3 and are very involved in community service. All of their board members are volunteers. Their website is http://www.harrisburgriverboat.com/.

March 20: Duane from Danzante Community Art Center is coming to speak.
Danzante program began in 1978 with the presentation of Spanish flamenco
dance and culture to residents of Central Pennsylvania. In 1992, Danzante
received 501(c)3 status and began after-school programming in collaboration
with the Church of the Brethren in South Allison Hill, Harrisburg, serving
primarily a Latino population. In 1999, Danzante initiated a capital
campaign totaling $333,000 and developed its state-of-the-art community
arts center in the McFarland Building on Crescent Street in South Allison
Hill. In 2004 Danzante received funding through the National Endowment on
the Arts to create and install the Mulberry Street murals. They are now in
their thirty-third year of existence and serve a multi-cultural group of
youth and adults. Their mission is to serve as a multicultural community
resource to provide artistic education for Latinos, Hispanics and others as
a means of developing career opportunities, healthy minds and bodies, and
respect for self and the environment. Their website is:
http://danzante.org/

March 27:  Doug Tierney from Kids Chance.  They are a non-profit organization who raises scholarships for children whose parents were killed in a work related accident.  http://www.kidschance.org/

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