Events

Meeting at King Spry 6th Floor Conference Room

In backstage tent behind the visitors' center.

Meeting at National Museum of Industrial History

Meeting will be held at the Ben Franklin Technology Building

Meeting at King Spry 6th floor Conference Room

Sep 7 Bethlehem Rotary Club Meeting will be held at the National Museum of Industrial History

The National Museum of Industrial History will demonstrate its renovated and no operational Corliss Steam Engine.  It's a treat worth attending.  

The National Museum of Industrial History will demonstrate its renovated and no operational Corliss Steam Engine.  It's a treat worth attending.  

Sep 14 Bethlehem Rotary Club Meeting will be held at the National Museum of Industrial History

Sep 21st  Bethlehem Rotary Club Meeting will be held at the National Museum of Industrial History

Lace up your sneakers and experience Bethlehem from the vantage point of our street neighbors. Rotary board member Deb Walter, City of Bethlehem Planning Director and Rotarian Darlene Heller, and Bethlehem Emergency Sheltering Executive Director Bob Rapp lead us from Sand Island to the Minsi Trail Bridge and on to Christ Church where we will grab a walking brown bag lunch. See and hear about the challenges of our street neighbors and learn about the plans the city has to meet their needs as we walk.

We will meet at 11 am on Saturday, September 24, at Sand Island for a two-hour stroll that includes lunch. Please wear comfortable shoes and dress appropriately for the weather. Our lunch is offered at no cost. You may make a donation to cover your lunch which will be prepared and provided by BES volunteers.

Contact Deb at debra.walter@desales.edu to RSVP or for more information.

This BoardWalk, along with our homelessness book discussion on September 28, will prepare us to be excellent ambassadors for Bethlehem Emergency Sheltering at our Tastes and Tunes event on October 2.

Meeting will be held at NMIH

Our speaker will be Kelly Berk, program manager for St. Luke’s Nurse-Family partnership (NFP)

·      NFP is a home visitation program for low-income mothers starting early in pregnancy.

·      NFP has been in the Lehigh valley starting in Bethlehem in 2001. In 2009 Allentown Bethlehem and Easton joined to create one larger program. In 2019 we expanded to serve an additional 25 clients allowing us to care for 275 and most recently in 2022 we were able to expand again by 1 nurse bringing our total to 300 clients.

·      This program is based on over 45 years of research

·      Kelly Berk has been working in public health and maternal child health nursing for over 23 years.

Jordan Westerman, Community Health Specialist in the City of Bethlehem’s Health Bureau will be the speaker.  She is the Health Bureau’s Community Connections Police Social Worker.  She will be accompanied by a Bethlehem Police Officer.  She will speak about a fairly new program developed with the Police Bureau.  Community Connections is the incorporation of social workers with the Police Department to fosterer healthy relationships with the community they serve by assisting police with overall referrals in social service areas of need.  It's very cutting edge with Police services in general and they have had some very successful results.

Darleen Heller will introduce Mayor Reynolds

The National Museum of Industrial History will demonstrate its renovated and no operational Corliss Steam Engine.  It's a treat worth attending.  

The National Museum of Industrial History will demonstrate its renovated and no operational Corliss Steam Engine.  It's a treat worth attending.  

This event will include our event sponsors and the designated charitable recipeient - Behtlehem Emergency Sheltering.

Our annual Christmas gathering at Historic Hotel Bethlehem in the Terrace Room.

Providing services for 10 to 12 residents annually, Stephen’s Place believes that men returning to the community after incarceration should have a safe, spiritual environment in order to address early recovery from substance abuse as well as develop personal life skills. Therefore, Stephen’s Place provides a Half-Way House to help these men transition back into the community as productive citizens.

Bill Thawley is the Recruitment Lead for the PA Rivers Chapter of the Red Cross in Allentown.  He has been a Red Cross volunteer for 7 plus years, and is a retired pharmacist from Cape May, NJ. He is also a past president of the greater Cape May Chamber of Commerce.   His second profession is photography.  He has lived in the Bethlehem area for 20 years, working as a pharmacist till he retired in 2015.

 

He has several volunteer roles within the Red Cross.  He works in volunteer services doing recruitment, and screening.  He also volunteers in communications doing historical blogging and photography.   He does some work as well in mass care (Sheltering etc).   

 

Thanks again for the invitation

 

Bill Thawley, recruitment lead for Pa Rivers chapter, Allentown.

Lin Erickson has been the Da Vinci Science Center’s Executive Director and CEO since March 2013 after serving as its Executive Director previously from 1997-2005. As the Center’s Chief Executive Officer, Erickson also is a member of its Board of Trustees.

Erickson has nearly 30 years of experience spearheading educational initiatives for students from kindergarten through college – raising more than $93 million from public and private sources. She was Chief Development Officer of the Air Force Museum Foundation in Dayton, Ohio, from 2011-2013, and Director of Government, Corporate, and Foundation Relations at Wittenberg University from 2006-2011.

Erickson held progressive leadership roles earlier in her career with Northampton Community College and Lehigh University – developing innovative partnerships between the public and private sectors to advance workforce competitiveness – and was a middle school teacher.

Erickson holds a bachelor’s degree in Education from Smith College in Northampton, Mass., a master’s degree in Educational Technology from Lehigh University, and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Joint meeting in the Bob Cohen Reading Room of the Bethlehem Public Library

Their Mission: To provide free air transportation to qualified patients and their families by arranging flights to distant medical facilities, delivering supplies to disaster areas, and reuniting families during desperate times.