Harvest Fest

Our annual  Harvest Fest & Wine Tasting event was a tremendous success this past year  with over a thousand attendees.  With this success in mind, planning is well under way for the 2009 event. Please mark your calendar and plan to attend this fun-filled event.

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Candy Cane Day     

Every Friday after Thanksgiving, you will find the Tunkhannock Rotary Club at the Wal* Mart Store and Ames Plaza collecting donations for children. People giving donations receive a candy cane. This event raises approximately $2,500 which is divided and given to Wyoming County Children and Youth, St Michael's School, and Interfaith. These organizations purchase Christmas gifts for their needy children.

Invitational Track Meet

Each year we sponsor the Rotary Relay Invitational Track Meet The structure of this event is this year is Junior High Relays on Friday night and no Senior High Events. This is a PIAA sanctioned meet. The athletes have a chance to run on the Martin Synthetic track, and their times are determined by a fully automatic timing system. All the gate receipts are donated to the Special Olympics.

The date for the Spring 2010 meet will be Friday evening April 30th for the Junior High events (they will compete under the stadium lights).  This meet will be our 30th Annual Meet. Click here for further details or here for an application form. If you wish to submit an application, just print out the form and send to the address indicated on the form.

Leadership Training

Tunkhannock Rotary is involved in two programs that provide leadership training .

The Leaders Camp is for 10^th grade students. We try to send at least one boy and one girl to these camps. There is a camp for boys and a separate camp for girls. They learn to work as a team and have projects they must accomplish. Various community leaders from all walks of life come to these camps to provide insight into their profession.

The second leadership training is for young business people in our community. RYLA (Rotary Young Leaders) is a weekend event providing seminars on various leadership skills. 

Fireworks

Tunkhannock Rotary sponsors the July 4th Fireworks display. This event is well attended. The fireworks are set off in the area of the high school football stadium. Using the stadium provides for excellent viewing of this spectacular event. Our club raises $3,000 for this show that lights up the sky.

Dictionary Project

Each year our club visits each of the elementary schools in the Tunkhannock Area School District and presents a dictionary to each third grade student.  This school year (2008/2009) we distributed  approximately 240 dictionaries.  To see a couple of photos of these enthusiastic children, please click on either of the dictionary icons above.

Highway Cleanup

Every year during the month of April and again in October the club gathers together and picks up the trash accumulated along the highway Route 6.  Our next scheduled pickup is set for Saturday October 18th.