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Living in Texas for 18 years, MB learned to cook a few Tex-Mex dishes. Buy a ticket for $50 for a chance to win: Black bean soup start, a 9x13 dish of Chicken Enchiladas, with a creamy Flan to finish. MB will work with spice preferences and allergies for the winner. The meal can be brought to you fresh, or frozen for you to enjoy later (although freezing the Flan is not recommended). If Tex-Mex is not your favorite, MB does have a few other options, it will be up to the winner.
Drawing will occur during the Sunday morning District breakout at the Leadership Summit. You do not need to be present to win (although MB hopes you'll be there!). Buy your tickets TODAY!!
The results are in for the finals of the Four-Way Test ESSAY Contest and the Mid-Levels of the Four-Way Test SPEECH Contest!
Congratulations to the following students and Clubs that were in the top three for the Essay Contest! If you would like to read the top three essays, please click here to find them on the speech and essay contest page of the website.
1st Place - Lilliana Klopp - (Myerstown-ELCO)
2nd Place - William Alexander Smith - (Hershey)
3rd Place - Ryelan Swartz - (D7390 Passport)
We hope to hear Lilliana Klopp read her essay at the upcoming District Conference on April 19th where the finals will also occur in the Four-Way Test Speech Contest.
The finalist for the Four-Way Test SPEECH Contest are:
Ram Makki (Mechanicsburg-North)
Hannah Taylor (Elizabethtown)
Arman Kazi (Hershey)
TJ Kennedy (Lancaster-Hempfield)
Ian Mathers (Lancaster-Sunrise)
The committee would like to thank our Rotarian judges (ESSAY Contest): DGE Rebecca Zalit (Palmyra), Stephanie Acri (Mechanicsburg-North), and Friedel Liebe-Elser (York-East) for their time, talents and wisdom in making such excellent choices among the six strongly written essays. Thanks to the District for providing the generous prizes of $500. $300 and $100 for these talented 9th grade students. We encourage that even more clubs will participate in both contests in 2026-2027!
Another thank you to the judges of the Mid-levels for the SPEECH Contest: DGE Rebecca Zalit (Palmyra), Megan Frye (Mechanicsburg-North), Karen Anthony (D7390 Passport), Melissa Kopp-Smith (D7390 Passport) and Mike Handshew (Elizabethtown).
Local civic and nonprofit organizations are being invited to participate in the Air Dot Show Central Pennsylvania May 23-25, 2026 through the Wings for a Cause™ Community Volunteer Program. This year's show is scheduled to feature the Blue Angels. Participating organizations organize volunteer teams to support event operations (hospitality, concessions, guest services), with many groups using the opportunity to support scholarships, youth programs, and local service initiatives.
If your club is looking for a project for our District’s Environment Day of Service on or near April 25, consider helping with one of the many Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful events near your club. Click here to find one in your own backyard, type in your zip code, and see if the event fits your schedule and interests. These events typically last only a few hours on a single day and are already set up and organized. They are actively looking for volunteers! Check them out!
Also consider teaming up with another Rotary club in our district. Register your Clubs Project here.
Check out the list here of projects that Clubs are already planning to complete!
Rotary Club of Carlisle – Sunrise in a partnership with Redwood Materials in Carson City, Nevada, will be collecting and recycling lithium-ion batteries and rechargeable devices. Join us on Saturday, 16 May 2026 between 10AM and 4PM at the Army Heritage Education Center Parking Lot (950 Soldiers Dr., Carlisle, PA) and bring your discarded lithium-ion batteries and rechargeable devices including smartphones, tablets, electric toothbrushes, laptops, power tool batteries, lawn equipment batteries, rechargeable vacuum batteries, wireless headphones, and any other lithium-ion battery and help close the loop.
The District Learning Committee is hard at work building opportunities for our Rotarians to grow their knowledge and skills. To that end, we are starting a series of monthly on-line learning sessions on various topics that should be helpful to your Rotarians and club leaders. Please join us the 4th Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. to LEARN more about Rotary!
April 28: Club planning, goals, assessing, communicating
May 26: Youth Services (RYLA, Youth Exchange, Four-Way Test Essay & Speech)
June 23: Rotary Outside the Club
Pre-Registration for the Zoom Meetings is required! Register here to receive the Zoom link!
Can your Club find a few dynamic leaders to attend the Annual RYLA Conference?
The Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) Leadership Conference is an interactive development program designed in enhancing leadership skills in the next generation of innovative leaders. Working with students after their Junior year of high school, Rotary Clubs throughout Rotary District 7390, select up to 140 students to participate in RYLA Leadership Conference. The Conference is held in mid-June every year. The 2026 Conference will be the 64th RYLA in Rotary District 7390.
Upon arriving at RYLA, participants are assigned a Counselor and Country with up to 15 other Conferees. Conferees spend four days exploring the intricacies of leadership and how it arises in the real world. Activities focus on team building, group problem solving, and interpersonal management within project teams.
RYLA helps individuals increase their self-confidence, enhance leadership capabilities, and provides tools of communication. The result is an increase in self-efficacy, and the ability to enhance the communities you are involved in. The schedule includes various speakers, career seminars, team building activities, a conference band and chorus and much, much more.
RYLA registration will close on April 1, 2026. The fee to sponsor a RYLA Conferee is $600 per student.
Rotarians in our District have always been engaged in health-related activities, from those included in the 7 Areas of RI Focus, to many local projects such as blood donation campaigns and hospital programs.
The newly created Kareem's Mission Autism Center at Central Penn College is the inspirational effort of Rotarian Hagir Elsheikh of the Harrisburg Club, and the latest example of a goal which is of great relevance to Rotarians everywhere. Everyone is strongly encouraged to support this Center and become familiar with Kareem's Mission.
Please come to the Center on April 11 from 1 to 3:30 for an open house and a recognition lunch. There will be a Rotary Table for those wishing to join the celebration so be sure to stop by for a visit. For more information, contact Hagir at info@kareemsmission.org
Check out the Upcoming Club Events Around the District! If you want your Club events listed in the newsletter, simply send an email with details to office@rotary7390.org!
The Rotary Club of York-North continues to demonstrate its deep commitment to protecting and enhancing York County’s environment through hands-on service and long-standing community partnerships.
One of the club’s most visible efforts is its participation in the PennDOT Adopt-a-Highway program along Greenbrier Road. Under the leadership of project chairman Ed Wagman, York North Rotary has maintained a two-to-three-mile stretch of roadway for approximately sixteen years. Through a three-year agreement with PennDOT, club members organize cleanups twice each year—once in the spring and again in the fall.
These efforts are thoughtfully timed to make the greatest impact. Spring cleanups take place before roadside vegetation fills in, while fall projects occur after leaves have dropped, making litter easier to identify and remove. The result is a cleaner, safer roadway that reflects the pride York North Rotary takes in its community.
Three local college students, Thomas Snyder, HACC York; Zuleydi Figueroa, Penn State York; and Megan Holtzinger, York College of Pennsylvania, were honored at the Rotary Club of York’s March 25th meeting with the 2026 College Service Awards. These students were selected because they exemplify the Rotary International motto of putting service to others above one's own interests.
