Shows
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Todd Baright - Citizen of the YearCo-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser interview Rotary's Citizen of the Year Todd Baright and Rotarians Carl Dowden and Jen Van Voorhis.
2024-10-2030 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Rotary's Conquest of PolioCo-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser interview Rotarian Carole Tjoa about Rotary's Conquest of Polio.
2024-10-1330 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Foster CareCo-host Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser interview Rotarian Dillon Copeland of Together for Youth about Foster Care.
2024-09-2930 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)The Greystone ProgramsCo-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser talk with Anquinette Hayles about the great work of The Greystone Programs.
2024-09-2229 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Water SafetyCo-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser chat with Rotarian Shawn Slevin about water safety and the Swim Strong program.
2024-09-1529 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Rotary's Commitment to PeaceCo-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser talk with Rotarians Doug Sturomski and Tony Marmo about Rotary's Commitment to Peace.
2024-09-0830 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Helping the homeless and the hungryCo-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser chat with Rotarian Deirdre DiCara about the great work of FISH, FRIENDS IN SERVICE TO HUMANITY in helping the homeless and the hungry.
2024-09-0130 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Angels of LightCo-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser will be talking with Danielle Mollica and Lori Cassia-Decker about the great work of Angels of Light..
2024-08-2530 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)People for People FundCo-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser talk with Nolly Climes and Marsi Clark about the great work of the People for People Fund.
2024-08-1830 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Rotary International President Stepahine Urchick and the Magic of RotaryCo-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser will be talking with Rotary International President Stepahine Urchick about the Magic of Rotary.
2024-08-1130 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Hudson Valley ClubhouseCo-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser will be talking about the great work of The Hudson Valley Clubhouse.
2024-08-0430 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Walk to End Alzheimer'sCo-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser chat with Meg Boyce and Tina Eckert of the Alzheimer's Association about the walk to end Alzheimer's.
2024-07-2830 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)The MARC FoundationCo-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser will be talking with Kevin Mullaney about the great work of the MARC Foundation.
2024-07-2130 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Facing EmerganiciesCo-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser interview William Beale, Director of Emergency Management, Dutchess County Department of Emergency Response, about what to do in an emergency.
2024-07-1429 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Roger's Run for AMC Awareness.Co-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser will be talking with Roger and Lisa about Roger's Run for AMC Awareness.
2024-06-3030 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)The Changing Face of ScoutingCo-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser chat with Rotarian Dana Kuhns about the Changing Face of Scouting
2024-06-2630 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)HospiceCo-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser talk with Rotarin Susan Sullivan Bisceglia about the services offered by Hospice.
2024-06-1630 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Narcan TrainingCo-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser talk with Laurie Levine about preventing opiod abuse.
2024-06-0930 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Astor ServicesCo-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser talk with Dr. Kathy Mills and Social Worker Barrie Becker about the great work of Astor Services.
2024-06-0930 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Great Public Events From RotaryCo-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser chat with members of the Kingston Rotary Club about their great public events this Summer.
2024-06-0229 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)The Benefits of DanceRadioRotary co-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser chat with Rotarian Susan Simon and Mary Rotella about the benefits of dance.
2024-05-2630 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Scuba TherapyRadioRotary co-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser will be talking with Rotarians Jim Elliott and Tinamarie Hernandez, about their Dive Heart organization and Scuba therapy.
2024-05-1930 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Helping cancer patients through Sparrow's Nest.RadioRotary co-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser will be talking with Krista Jones about helping cancer patients through Sparrow's Nest.
2024-05-1230 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Blessing of the AnimalsRadioRotary co-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser will be talk with Rotarian Carl Dowden and Rosemary Joyce abdou the blessing of the animals.
2024-04-2830 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Working for WomenRadioRotary co-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser talk with Rotarian Susan Simon, Beth Jones and Beth Bengtson about the Working for Women organization.
2024-04-2530 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Highland Rotary ClubRadioRotary co-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser talk with Rotarian Steve Laubach about the activities of the Highland Rotary Club
2024-04-2529 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Vet to Vet programRadioRotary co-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser chat with Alyssa Carrion of Mental Health America of Dutchess County about their Vet to Vet program.
2024-04-2530 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Dutchess County's 40 Under 40 recognition Rotarian Todd BowenRadioRotary co-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser interview Rotarian Todd Bowen, president of the Wappingers Falls Rotary Club and recipient of Dutchess County's 40 Under 40 recognition, about the importance of Rotary for younger members.
2024-04-2529 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Green ChimneysRadioRotary co-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser interview Kristin Dionne about the Rotary-founded Green Chimneys school and farm.
2024-04-2530 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Emily Williams of Literacy ConnectionsRadioRotary co-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser talk with Emily Williams of Literacy Connections.
2024-04-2530 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Planning for your financial futureRadioRotary co-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser interview Rotarian Thomas Gehagen about planning for your financial future.
2024-04-2530 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Rotary's humanitarian efforts in UkraineRadioRotary co-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser interview Rotarian BJ Mikkleson about Rotary's humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.
2024-04-2530 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)The Anderson CenterRadiOrtary co-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser interview Eliza Bozenski about autism and the Anderson Center.
2024-04-2530 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Mental Health AmericaRadioRotary co-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser talk with Andrew O'Grady and Linwood Burke about the great work of Mental Health America.
2024-04-2530 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Mediation Center of Dutchess CountyRadioRotary co-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser talk with Leanne Lawson and Claudia Abbott-Barish about the great work of the Mediation Center of Dutchess County.
2024-04-2530 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Place CorpsRadioRotary co-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser talk with Dawn Breeze about the great vocational work with youth of Place Corps.
2024-04-2530 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Madams Mobsters and MurdersRadioRotary co-hosts Kathy Kruger and Jonah Triebwasser talk with popular local author Tony Musso about his new book “Madams Mobsters and Murders.”
2024-04-2530 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)The Rotary “Day of Service” (Aired on April 9, 2023)Fishkill Rotarian Vicki Kessler joins co-hosts Jonah Triebwasser and Sara Claitor- O’Conner to present the Rotary Day of Service, an idea developed by Robert Friend of the Madison (CT) Rotary Club, who previously had created the Million Mask Project for Rotary Clubs to donate face masks during the covid epidemic.
On one day each year (May 20 in 2023) all the Rotary clubs that are participating will perform an act of community service. Participants this year include Rotarians from more than 500 Rotary clubs and 14,000 Rotarians across 5 states and 3 countries, from Connecticut to Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Ne...
2023-04-1830 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Tots for Toys Returns to Hudson Valley (Aired on November 27 2022)Toys for Tots in the Hudson Valley is updated in this program where cohosts Sarah O’Connell-Claitor and Jonah Triebwasser interview Mike Binns (Ulster County Coordinator), Marine sergeant Felipe Cabrera, and PAMAL radio host Randy Turner (who is also engineer for the Radio Rotary team). Toys for Tots was started by the Marines in Los Angeles 1947 to provide toys for children in need—distributing 5,000 toys in that first year. Walt Disney designed the familiar logo. Every holiday season since it has continued to be one of the charities that everyone loves, providing presents for children who might otherwise go with...
2022-12-2029 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Service Dogs for Children with Autism (Aired on June 5, 2022)Radio Rotary co-host Jonah Triebwasser and producer Kathy Kruger interview two Red Hook Rotary Interactors about their project of raising a puppy for the Bluepath Service Dogs, an organization that supplied trained service dogs that work with autistic children ages 5 to 12. The sisters, who both are active in service projects for in Interact and the Girl Scouts, also volunteer for the local food pantry as well as being part of the school yearbook team and play alto saxophone in the jazz band. They often “puppy sit” for Bluepath service dogs during times when the dog’s owners are on trips...
2022-06-0830 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Reher Immigrant Center and Sewing ExhibitionDr. Sarah Litvin, Director of the Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History and Dr. Sarah Gardner, Curator of the museum, join another Sarah (co-host Sarah O’Connell-Claitor) and co-host Jonah Triebwasser for a program updating the story of the Reher Center, a unique asset of the Kingston, NY, waterfront (the Roundout). The Reher Center is housed in the former Reher Bakery, a Kingston institution run by the Reher family for 80 years. During the restrictions of the covid pandemic, the Center used the down time to upgrade the facilities, including a new gallery that is opening with an exhibit hi...
2022-04-2129 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Aquabox Filter Kits for Disaster Relief (Aired on March 27, 2022)For an international program, the Radio Rotary hosts, Jonah Triebwasser and Kathy Kruger, interview Roger Cassidy and David Hood from the Wirkswirth Rotary in England along with Tim Lynch of the Red Hook (NY) Rotary concerning Aquabox, a source of water filters and other emergency supplies that was formed in 1992 by the Wirkswirth Rotary Club. Aquabox now operates as an independent charity associated with Rotary International. The box of equipment for providing safe, clean water come in various configurations, from a one-family box of two filters and other disaster supplies to community filters than can produce 6 liters of potable...
2022-04-1030 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Greystone’s Leap for Autism (Aired on January 30, 2022)Samara Enders, Director of Philanthropy at Greystone Programs, is interviewed by co-host Sarah McConnell-Claitor and Jonah Triebwasser about the annual Leap for Autism and other aspects of Greystone’s work with developmentally disabled individuals. Greystone Programs is a privately-run non-profit organization that provides essential services and life-enriching opportunities to more than 600 children, adults, and families with autism and other developmental disabilities. The organization operates 17 group homes in Dutchess, Orange, and Ulster counties of New York State as well as providing after-school and school-break programs. While part of their funding is from government sources, the nonprofit relies on private donations as...
2022-02-0430 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Why YOU should be a Rotarian! (Aired on January 2, 2022)Highland (NY) Rotarian and past District 7210 Governor (2020-21) Tony Marmo is now the District Membership Chair. He joined Jonah Triebwasser and Kathy Kruger on RadioRotary to discuss the value of Rotary membership and his plans to increase membership in the District.Rotarians are more diverse and often younger than the older white males that once were typical of Rotarians. Today, with varied types of clubs and flexibility in meetings\ arrangements, Rotary remains an important force for doing good in the world. PDG Marmo describes several ways to increase membership, although the basic first step is that each current Rotarian...
2022-01-0530 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Rotary’s First E-Club in District 7210 (Aired on October 24, 2021)Fred Widman, president of the Rotary E-club of District 7210, joins Jonah Triebwasser and Sarah O’Connell-Claitor on RadioRotary to talk about the formation and present situation of the first-ever international E-club, which has its home base in the Hudson Valley but includes members from around the world, currently including Sweden, Brazil, Nigeria, India, and Turkey. The club has regular Zoom meetings with guest speakers online one Saturday each month, but members can also attend their local Rotary club meetings when they have a chance. Also, members participate in service projects run by the local clubs or can do individual se...
2021-11-0630 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Italian American Festival in Kingston (Aired On October 3. 2021)As Columbus Day approaches, so does the 14thAnnual Italian Festival in Kingston, sponsored by the Ulster County Italian American Foundation. Festival Chair Anna Brett and Highland Rotarian Tony Marmo join Jonah Triebwasser and Kathy Kruger for a fun-filled program on the fun-filled festival, which takes place beside the Roundout Creek in T.R. Gallo Park at the lower end of Broadway in Kingston, NY. The Festival celebrates the Italian heritage of Ulster Country with foods and music that came to American from Italy along with the many immigrants to Ulster County. The event and parking are free, but many...
2021-10-0430 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Helping People Survive Disasters and Conflicts (Aired on August 22, 2021)Montecito (CA) Rotarian Kerri Murray, president of ShelterBox USA, joins Jonah Triebwasser and Kathy Kruger to talk about how the ShelterBox organization helps survivors of disasters and refugees from conflicts around the world. ShelterBox is a program that provides disaster or conflict relief based on a specially designed tent that can hold an entire family and also the tools, food, solar lighting, cookware, and water filtration needed to support that family for up to half a year—including toys for children. The traditional ShelterBoxes resemble trunk-sized Tupperware boxes that contain everything needed for a family, but sometimes a tent is...
2021-08-2630 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)A Nonprofit Place for Senior Living (Aired on April 4, 2021)Executive Director Ericka Von Salews of the Vassar-Warner Home, the only nonprofit senior living residence in Dutchess County, visits RadioRotary co-hosts Jonah Triebwasser and Sarah O’Connell-Claitor for a program describing the services and remarkable story of this historic institution. The beautiful building dates from 1835 when it was built as s boys’ academy, but in 1871 it became a home for senior women. Originally Johnathan Warner operated The Old Ladies Home at the site, but in 1974, with financial help from the Smith Brothers (of cough-drop fame) the building was expanded and merged with the Vassar Home for men. Today the Vass...
2021-04-2130 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Enhancing Poughkeepsie’s Schools (Aired on April 11, 2021)Radio Rotary Co-Host Jonah Triebwasser and Producer Kathy Kruger chat with Angela Henry, the new Executive Director of the Poughkeepsie Public Schools Foundation (PPSF). PPSF was founded in 2008 to put musical instruments in the hands of students who could not afford to rent them. Over the years the Foundation has raised and distributed over $40,000 for projects as diverse as museum field trips, the creation of school gardens, and college scholarships. In 2021, PPSF hired Ms. Henry, a local educational and nonprofit consultant, as its first paid Executive Director. She is in the process of expanding the programs of PPSF, including...
2021-04-0730 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Tots for Toys Despite Pandemic (Aired on December 13, 2020)Every holiday season one of the great charities that everyone loves to help is Toys for Tots. In 2020, the year of the pandemic, the Marines are still coming to help children who might otherwise go without holiday presents. Toys for Tots was started in 1947 by Marine Corps Reserve Major Bill Hendricks and his wife Diane to provide toys for children in need—distributing 5,000 toys in that first year. Since then, communities around the nation have provided bins for collecting toys and volunteers to provide cash for more and to help the local Marine Corps Reserve deliver them. In 2020 some of...
2020-12-1730 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Cider Mill Annual Cider Tasting (Aired on September 27, 2020)The show is a “triple play,” as co—hosts Sarah O’Connell-Claitor and Jonah Triebwasser are joined by three representatives of the history-preservation teams of Dutchess County: Lisa Weiss from the Cider Mill Friends of Open Space and Historic Preservation; Bill Ponte of the Sports Museum of Dutchess County; and Amy McKenzie of the Fishkill Historical Society and Van Wyck Homestead Museum. These volunteers and the many volunteers who work with them are dedicated to keeping the significant history of Dutchess County alive, from Colonial Days right up to the present. The event that brings them together is the 8 th annua...
2020-10-0130 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Insights from The Bible (Aired March 21 & 22, 2020)RadioRotary Co-Host Jonah Triebwasser interviews Rabbi Jonathan Kligler of the Woodstock Jewish Congregation in this unusual and extremely interesting program based largely on Rabbi Kligler’s book Turn It and Turn It for Everything is In It. The book’s title comes from an ancient Rabbi’s saying about the Torah scroll that is a part of every Jewish temple and used in various services. The Torah’s text consists of the first five books of the Old Testament, common to Jewish and Christian faiths, but the scroll is a special handwritten version on parchment that is a physical represen...
2020-03-2830 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Miles of Hope Aids Cancer Victims (Aired on September 28 and 29, 2019)RadioRotary interviews Pari Farood, Executive Director of Miles of Hope, an organization that provides aid and comfort to breast-cancer sufferers throughout the nine counties of the Hudson Valley. Miles of Hope was founded in 2004 by Dana Effron and Cathy Varunok who had already devoted themselves to raising money for the fight against breast cancer but recognized that there needed to be a more local organization. The name originates with the annual fall Breast Cancer Walk at James Baird State Park in Dutchess Country, but there are additional fundraising events throughout the year. With the money it raises, Miles of...
2019-10-0730 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Youth Experiences Abroad: Germany (Aired on August 17 and 18, 2019)RadioRotary co-hosts Sarah O’Connell–Claitor and Jonah Triebwasser interview Millbrook High School student Joe Richard about his year spent in Germany as part of the Rotary Youth Exchange Program. Participants are generally high-school students and are sponsored by a Rotary Club to spend a school year abroad in a country with a different language from their native tongue, living with local families and attending a local school. Mr. Richard lived with three different families and attended school in Lüneburg, Germany, a small city 35 miles southeast of Hamburg. Mr. Richard, who plays the tenor saxophone, not only joined his s...
2019-09-0530 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)More than Just a Service Club (Aired on July 27 and 28, 2019)The dynamic duo of Doris and Ken Obremski, both Past District Governors of Rotary District 7210 and both members of The Rotary Club of Goshen, New York (Ken is once again president of the club after a long hiatus), come to RadioRotary to be interviewed by old friends Sarah O’Connell-Claitor and Jonah Triebwasser. Much of the interview consists of reminiscences of Ken’s 50 active years in Rotary (by January 2020) and Doris’ 26 years joining her husband in its work-- from immunizations for children in the US and against polio abroad, international exchanges, to disaster relief after Katrina. RadioRotary started during Doris’...
2019-07-3029 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Literary Connections for Nonreaders (Aired on February 23 and 24, 2019)RadioRotary’s co-host Jonah Triebwasser interviews three members of the staff of Literacy Connections of the Hudson Valley: Debra Paskowski, Katherine Stikkers, and Marian Thompson. A surprising number of adults are unable to read English, either because they did not learn to read as a child or perhaps they grew up speaking a language other then English. Literacy Connections helps resolve reading problems in various ways. The Book Buddy program, which brings adult readers into elementary schools where they read along with children or have children read to them, gets children on the path to reading success. For most chi...
2019-02-2829 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Video Explorations of the Hudson Valley (Aired On January 12 & 13, 2019)Seth Collegrave is a young composer and videographer who has been developing multimedia presentations of the history and prominent landmarks in the Hudson Valley. Having grown up in the lower Hudson Valley, he came to appreciate how important the region has been in US history. After studying composition and media at the Berkley School of Music in Boston and a brief period working in Los Angeles, Mr. Collegrave returned to his native territory where he formed Empire Explorer to produce short Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube features of the regions historic buildings. Listen as Sarah O’Connell-Claitor and Jonah Triebwasser inter...
2019-01-1929 min
At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Rotary Improves Spirits of Ill Children (Aired on February 5 and 6, 2019)Clarkstown-Sunrise Rotarians Past District Governor Nick Constantino and club President Alex Duenas tell RadioRotary about their visit to Neiva, Colombia, where the Huellas Fundación brings laughter into the lives of terminal ill children in four hospitals. In English, the Huellas Fundación is the Footprints Foundation with Meaning of Life. Teenagers and college students form the basis of the Foundation, dressing as clowns to amuse the children and, with the help of the Neiva Noches Plateñas Rotary and the Make-a-Wish Foundation, find ways to provide the children with last wishes. Constantino and Duenas joined in the entertainment dre...
2019-01-1030 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Patterson Blues & BBQ Festival (September 8 & 9, 2018)RadioRotary co-hosts Sarah O’Connell-Claitor and Jonah Triebwasser interview two Patterson Rotarians, Billy Flash and Paul Toscana, about the Patterson Rotary’s annual Blues and BBQ Festival, a music-and-food tradition in Putnam County for the past seven years. Unlike most similar events, admission and parking are both free, which includes enjoying as many as nine different bands
playing blues, rock-and-roll, and jazz (over the two days of the festival). The only cost is for food and drink purchased directly from the Rotary Club, which smokes
its own ribs and barbecues pulled-pork and even bakes the baguettes for sandwiches. They even take...
2018-09-1730 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Atlanta 2017 Rotary Convention, part 11 (February 17, 2018)Jonah Triebwasser, Sarah O’Connell, and Kathy Kruger interview several of the Rotarians bringing their projects furthering the goals of the Rotary Foundation to the Convention. The two Rotary Action Groups (RAGs) are each devoted to worldwide fights against chronic illnesses that not only are rampant in the United States but also are on the increase around the world. Hepatitis C, unrecognized until a few decades ago, is spread only by blood transfers (such as from contaminated needles) and in symptom free—but ultimately kills. There is now an effective cure, so the main emphasis of the RAG called “Hepatitis Zero”...
2018-07-2923 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Atlanta 2017 Rotary Convention, part 7 (December 16, 2017)Continuing its broadcasts from the Rotary International Convention in Atlanta, RadioRotary Co-Hosts Jonah Triebwasser and Sarah O’Connell interview representatives of several of the many exhibits featured at the Convention. “The One” Rotary Action Group presents an award of $100,000 to the International Humanitarian of the year along with $50,000 each to two runners-up, enabling these humanitarians to increase their work with the poor of the world. One effort to help the poor is Project Peanut Butter, which uses Rotary grants to manufacture and supply a specially formatted peanut butter that saves the lives of starving children, primarily in Africa. Another Rotary Action...
2018-07-2927 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Atlanta 2017 Rotary Convention, part 6 (December 2, 2017)Regular hosts Jonah Triebwasser and Sarah O’Connell along with producer Kathy Kruger and visiting host Dave Kruger interview some of the fascinating people at the Convention about their important projects related to the goals of the Rotary Foundation.
One of the many Rotary Action Groups is “Stop Mothers Dying,” a Collaborative Action in lowering Maternity Encountered Deaths (CALMED). This program helps physicians, nurses, and midwives learn to anticipate problems of childbirth. It is not just the mothers who are saved in Third World countries, since maternal deaths have been on the rise in the United States as well. Another Rotary...
2018-07-2924 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Atlanta 2017 Rotary Convention, part 4 (Aired on October 21 & 22, 2017)Some 35,000 Rotarians from around the world came to the Atlanta Rotary Convention, but somehow the RadioRotary team of Jonah Triebwasser, Sarah O’Connell, and Kathy and Dave Kruger keep running into Rotarians from back home, including District 7210 Governor Jim Damiani and a Past President of Jonah’s Red Hook Club, Sue Simon. The RadioRotary team also learned of fascinating projects from other American Rotarians, including the prospect of even more collaboration between Rotary International and the U.S. Peace Corps and a vision screening projct for elementary schools undertaken by the Cincinnati
Rotary. The Chicago Far North Rotary is working to b...
2018-07-2926 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)YEX Students at Mohonk (August 5, 2017 and August 6, 2017RadioRotary’s co-hosts Jonah Triebwasser and Sarah O’Connell call Youth Exchange Rotary’s “crown jewel.” District 7210 Youth Exchange Coordinator Nan Greenwood (District 7210 E-Club) joins the co-hosts as Youth Exchange students from Slovakia, France, Brazil, Japan, Taiwan, and Italy discuss their experiences as part of the Rotary Youth Exchange program, where “inbound” students from around the world spend nine months attending school in the United States (meanwhile “outbound” students make similar visits abroad). Each student lives with three different families during the school year so that there is a real taste of what American life is like. The visit is watched over by ho...
2018-07-2826 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Renewal for 91-Year-Old Scout Camp (June 15 and 16, 2017)Camp Nooteeming in Pleasant Valley has been serving the scouting community for 91 years, but newly arrived Scout Executive/CEO for the Hudson Valley Council of the Boy Scouts of America, David Horton, recognized that the Camp is in serious need of renovation to become a resident camp. Volunteer Dave Petrovich has taken charge of the project. Together for a joint interview on RadioRotary, they describe plans to set up camping centers for specific topics, events, and skills, including centers devoted to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics); shooting sports; the environment; crafts; and more. Scouts, including Cub Scouts as young...
2018-07-2827 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Community Policing in the Town of Lloyd (October 8, 2016)Jonah Triebwasser and RadioRotary Producer Kathy Kruger interview Police Chief Daniel Waage of the Town of Lloyd in Ulster County about his program of community policing. Community policing is a law-enforcement philosophy that involves the systematic use of community partnerships to address proactively the conditions that give rise to crime, social disorder, or fear of police. Chief Waage has followed this philosophy from the 2012 start of his work in Lloyd, focusing especially on helping children (and their parents) and senior citizens. The Lloyd Police, working on their own time, produce or participate in fundraising events for local needs. Chief Waage...
2018-07-2523 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Zika Virus Update (Aired on September 24 and 25, 2016)Jonah Triebwasser interviews Cary Institute disease ecologist Shannon LaDeau on the recently recognized dangers from the Zika virus and on the mosquitoes that carry it from human to human. Zika has been known in the Old World since the 1940s but did not reach the Western Hemisphere until 2014, when travelers brought it to Brazil. It has since spread widely through South America, the Caribbean, and some neighborhoods in Florida. Zika is carried from person to person primarily by two species of tropical and subtropical mosquitoes that are daytime biters and to a lesser degree by sexual relations. About 80% of humans...
2018-07-2522 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Apple Blossom Day in Red Hook (Aired on April 30 & May 1, 2016)Once again RadioRotary travels to the Red Hook Rotary Club for a live broadcast from the Bread and Bottle Bakery and Wine Bar. Red Hook Rotary for the past fifteen years has been the sponsor of the great spring festival, Apple Blossom Day, which has taken place in the village for over thirty years. Co-hosts Jonah Triebwasser and Sara O’Connell interview Red Hook Rotary president (and hot-dog cook) Susan Simon along with chair of this year’s Apple Blossom Day Dave Wright about the event that features music, dance, food, and crafts. An addition to the event this year is t...
2018-07-2526 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Improving Lives with Plastic Surgery (March 19 & 20, 2016)Pleasant Valley Rotarian, registered nurse, and RadioRotary producer Kathy Kruger is on the other side of the microphone as co-hosts Jonah Triebwasser and Sarah O’Connell interview her about the Rotaplast program to correct cleft lip or palate, burn scarring, and other deformities. Cleft lip or palate causes many health problems as well as affecting speech, impairing ability to eat, and causing social rejection. Kruger has personal experience with the program as a participant in a mission to the Philippines but she also has been the principal representative from Rotaplast to District 7210. A typical Rotaplast team of about 15 medical professionals an...
2018-07-2526 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Rotary for Young, Old, and In-Between (Aired on May 30 & 31, 2015)RadioRotary co-host Jonah Triebwasser and producer Kathy Kruger interview the man who conceived and launched RadioRotary: Poughkeepsie-Arlington Rotarian Roger Risko. Mr. Risko, who is about to retire after many years of teaching at Dutchess County’s BOCES (Bureau of Co-operative Services), not only started RadioRotary but also has been instrumental in forming and helping grow several Rotaract and Interact clubs, organizations for youth—respectively college-age and high-school age—in the Hudson Valley. Inspired by a question from the mother of an Interact student, Mr. Risko created the first Rotary-oriented service organization for senior citizens, Elderact. As he moves his base of ope...
2018-07-2424 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)7th Annual Millbrook Literary Festival (May 16 & 17, 2015)Authors Bryan Bunch (Millbrook Rotary), and Tim Tocher discuss the seventh annual Millbrook Literary Festival with co-hosts Jonah Triebwasser and Sara O’Connell. The Festival features several talks by journalists and authors as well as panel discussions on historical fiction, mysteries, cookbooks, journalism, history, and getting published. Books for younger readers featured include picture books and young-adult novels. Younger writers also have a chance to participate with their short works published in a special booklet distributed at the event. Some 50 authors will be part of the Festival, with all signing copies of their books. The Festival will take place on Ma...
2018-07-2427 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Red Hook’s Apple Blossom Festival (Aired on May 2 & 3, 2015)Co-Hosts Jonah Triebwasser and Sarah O’Connell travel to the regular meeting of the Red Hook Rotary as it plans for the annual Red Hook Apple Blossom Festival, a village-wide celebration of the coming of summer that features food booths, sales in local stores, entertainment, political candidates, baby animals, face painting, balloons, and more. Red Hook Rotarians Susan Simon and Linda Greenblatt describe some of the highlights of the free festival, including the bands McKenna and the Stringmasters as well as a dance troupe. Also on the program Gail Wolf and Tim Lynch describe how the Rotary Youth Exchange program ha...
2018-07-2427 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Grace Smith Domestic-Violence Assistance (Feb. 21, 2015)Co-host Jonah Triebwasser and producer Kathy Kruger interview Michele Polluck-Rich, Executive Director at Grace Smith House, the principal organization in Dutchess County for aid to victims of domestic abuse. Victims of either sex can be helped; the hotline is (845) 471-3033. About 90% of the abused are women, who can be removed from their domestic situation to one of two secretly located residences for stays of 90 days. There are also arrangements for men. The clients are provided with a family advocate to help get through the legal arrangements necessary for orders of protection or for finding permanent housing. Not all abuse is...
2018-07-2426 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Community Outreach in Newburgh (Aired on February 14, 2015)RadioRotary Co-host Jonah Triebwasser interviewed Marietta Allen about her current Outreach program at St. Mary’s Parish in Newburgh. Newburgh suffers from high poverty and crime rates. Each of the four Roman Catholic churches has a program to help alleviate the city’s problems. Among the components of the St. Mary’s Outreach are the provision of emergency food and toiletries for immediate needs; a program that delivers food and other supplies to homebound veterans; a program to provide food and other aid to the elderly in their homes; as well as several similar outreaches. Perhaps the most dramatic aid comes...
2018-07-2427 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Mini-Library & Madagascar Library (Aired on January 3 & 4, 2015)Co-host Jonah Triebwasser and producer Kathy Kruger interview Mike Green and Matt Cruz about Hyde Park Rotary’s Little Free Library in the Stop & Shop Plaza in the Hyde Park Mall, the Rotary Club operates in conjunction with the Hyde Park Free Library. The movement to install Little Free Libraries has been spreading from town to town, and Rotarians are often behind the installation. In a Little Free Library, a small number of books (40 in the case of Hyde Park) are available for anyone to borrow—no library cards or check-out needed. Borrowers may return the book when they desire or r...
2018-07-2125 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Stringendo: Music in Hudson Valley (Aired on Dec. 27, 2014)Jonah Triebwasser and RadioRotary Producer Kathy Kruger interview Gabriella Fryer, Executive Director of Stringendo, a nonprofit music education and performance program for youth in the Hudson Valley. Stringendo allows elementary and high-school students to play in six different orchestras, depending on skill level, and four different fiddler groups. The all-violin ensembles are knows as the Strawberry Hill Fiddlers, while the six Stringendo Orchestras have music-associated names ranging from “Prelude” for the beginners to “Vivace” for the most skilled. The “Vivace” orchestra has won many awards, most notably the 2009 Grand Champion of the National String Orchestra Festival. In addition to the orchestras a...
2018-07-2126 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Project Amigo (Aired on November 22 & 23, 2014)RadioRotary co-hosts Jonah Triebwasser and Sarah O’Connell interview Rotarians Pat Green and Gail Dejmal of the Monroe-Woodbury club about their participation in Project Amigo and about the humanitarian activities of their Rotary club. Project Amigo consists of a number of ways that Rotarians and others can improve the lives of the rural poor in Colima State, Mexico, many of them migrant workers. It began informally in 2984 when California Rotarian Tom Rose lost his way in Colima and came upon the small village of Cofradía de Suchitlàn. Recognizing the unmet needs of the villagers, Rose and his wife Susa...
2018-07-2125 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)RI Convention in Sydney, Australia, Part 7 (Aired on November 15 & 16, 2014)RadioRotary co-host Jonah Triebwasser, in Sydney, interviews Rotarians from the United States who are also visiting the Convention and others who work with Rotary. Kurt Johnsen from the New Windsor-Cornwall Rotary in Orange County, New York, describes the Rotary Foundation and its progress in the fight to eradicate polio. His wife, Ana Johansen, talks about E-Club 7210, which—although based in District 7210 has members from around the world—provides credits for a Rotary meeting via the Internet as well as doing community service. Past District Governor Ernie Montane, from the Tucson Sunrise Club in Arizona recounts how a visit to West Afri...
2018-07-2123 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)4-H – It’s More Than Raising Animals (Sept. 20 & 21, 2014)RadioRotary host Jonah Triebwasser interviews Maureen Roche, Program Director for 4-H Youth Development at Cornell Cooperative Extension in Dutchess County. The 4-H organization officially set up by the US Department of Agriculture in 1914, although built on a number of youth organizations from around the turn of the 19th century into the 20th. The name stands for Head – Hearth – Hands – Health. Although best known for members raising animals and competing with them at county fairs, 4-H today goes beyond agriculture with programs emphasizing public speaking, robotics, college preparation, photography, arts and crafts, and community service. Dutchess Country has an active 4-H progra...
2018-07-2124 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)RI Convention in Sydney, Australia, Part 6 (August 30, 2014)This series of interviews from the RI Convention in Sydney begins with the young—two Youth Exchange students who are having the adventure of their lives as they spend a year in Australia, away from homes in Finland and Denmark. Then we learn about the versatile Backpack Bed, which becomes a fireproof mattress with screens and a hidden, lockable pocket; these are distributed to homeless people who would otherwise sleep on concrete or the ground. Lynne Aldridge represents Mediators Beyond Borders, an organization that uses mediation to resolve international disputes and bring peace. Celeste Mergens describes Days for Girls, an in...
2018-07-2126 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)RI Convention in Sydney, Australia, Part 5 (Aired on August 16 & 17, 2014)Here are five more fascinating interviews recorded by Jonah Triebwasser at the 2014 Rotary International Convention. Dr. Peter Linz, Chief International Medical Officer at Mercy Ships, tells about how their large hospital ship—6 operating rooms, 25 beds—travels from country to country in West Africa, bringing modern surgery of all kinds to people who would have no other access. Rotary International now partners with Mercy Ships and Rotary Foundation vocational training teams are among the volunteers who bring medical and dental assistance to the region. Teresa Mitchell Patterson, nutritional advisor, discusses Bowel Cancer Australia, discusses a diet that will help prevent bowel canc...
2018-07-2124 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Hudson Valley Ribfest (Aired on August 9 & 10, 2014)This week’s show was broadcast from the regular meeting of the Highland Rotary Club, sponsors of the Tenth Annual Hudson Valley Ribfest, a three-day event at the Ulster Country Fairgrounds in New Paltz, NY, featuring barbecue (and many other foods) as well as a number of country-music concerts and a stage in the national contest for best Barbecue. Highland Rotary President Steve Laubach and Highland Rotarian Don Verity, CEO of Pamal Radio, which broadcasts RadioRotary, are interviewed by Jonah Triebwasser. Proceeds from the Ribfest support both the charitable work of Highland Rotary, such as the installation of nineteen defibrillators ar...
2018-07-2125 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)RI Convention in Sydney, Australia, Part 4 (Aired on August 2 & 3, 2014)Jonah Triebwasser interviews five people who are working to do good in the world in different ways. Jenny Da Rin, Assistant Director General for the Education and Health Branch of AusAID, an Australian government program with many of the same goals as the Rotary Foundation. Rotarian Tam Mustapha (Kinderhook Tri-Village Clun, NY), attending the convention, tells Jonah about the expansion of the Rotary Learning Institute (RLI), which now teaches Rotary knowledge and leadership on all continents except Antarctica. Claire Munroe from Rotary International tells of the success—99% complete—in eliminating polio. Chicago-area Rotarian Margarita Hewko discuss the Water and Sanitation Rota...
2018-07-2126 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)RI Convention in Sydney, Australia, Part 3 (Aired on July 19 & 20, 2014)Jonah Triebwasser interviews seven Rotarians from Australia, England, the United States, and Papua New Guinea about international projects that include Our Rainbow House, which educated orphans and other vulnerable children in Zambia; the Guilford Eye Project, which helps prevent and cure eye diseases in India and Nigeria; the Asia-Pacific Center for Neuromodulation, which employs deep-brain stimulation to combat Parkinson’s disease and other brain illnesses; Crutches 4 Africa; the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia; Project Peanut Butter, which supplies ready-to-use therapeutic food to famine-struck regions; and Rotarians Against Malaria (PNG), which distributes treated mosquito netting in Papua New Guinea.
2018-07-2026 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)RI Convention in Sydney, Australia, Part 2 (Aired on July 5 & 6, 2014)Past Rotary International President Bill Boyd tells Radio Rotary Co-Host Jonah Triebwasser about WASRAG, the Water and Sanitation Rotary Action Group. Securing an adequate supply of drinkable water is one of six Rotary areas of focus that affects all the rest—fighting disease, saving mothers and children, growing local economies, promoting peace (wars have been fought over water), even literacy, since the time that young girls need to spend fetching water, often from miles away, keeps them out of school. PP Boyd noted that although sanitation is not glamorous, it is one of the easies ways for Rotarians to do go...
2018-07-2023 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)RI Convention in Sydney, Australia, Part 1 (June 21, 2014)Co-Host, Jonah Triebwasser traveled to Sydney, Australia, for the Rotary International Annual Convention, where he taped many interesting interviews. For a starter, here are five of the subjects: Rotarian D. Bob Scott, chair of Rotary’s, describes how this campaign, in conjunction with WHO, UNICEF, the CDC, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has reduced the number of countries where polio is endemic from 125 to 3. California Rotarian Sheila Hurst tells about the Kenya Smiles Rotary Internationals Global Grant that is improving oral health of children in Kenya. The president of the Monroe-Woodbury Rotary Club, Patricia Green, describes Project Amigo, wh...
2018-07-1922 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Millbrook Literary Festival (Aired on May 31 & June 1, 2014)Authors Bryan Bunch (Millbrook Rotary), Jim Holmgren, and Evan Pritchard discuss the sixth Millbrook Literary Festival with host Jonah Triebwasser. Holmgren, a novelist whose future fiction novel describes the world in 2076, will host a panel of mystery writers under the heading “Who Did It? We did it!” Even Pritichard, poet and historian, who has been declared “king of the poets” for the Festival, will not only lead a panel discussion pitting nature poets against city poets, but also will be part of a “Poet’s Corner” at the Millbrook Library, where poets will read or recite through the festival. Other highlights inc...
2018-07-1926 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Center for the Performing Arts (Aired on May 17 & 18, 2014)Rotarian Lou Trapani (Rhinebeck), Artistic and Managing Director of The Center for the Performing Arts, located a short distance east of Rhinebeck, NY, is interviewed by co-hosts Jonah Triebwasser and Sarah O’Connell, both former performers themselves. The Center began as a project of the Rhinebeck Theater Society and was first (1994) housed in a tent, with the permanent building, known as “the Barn,” opening in 1998. It is now open 360 days a year and houses productions of several theater companies as well as a summer arts day camp and a teen musical theater called “Kids on Stage.” Other productions include a choreograp...
2018-07-1924 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Rotary Convention Part VII: Lisbon 2013 (Nov. 29, 2013)This is the last edition in a series of seven inspiring broadcasts taped at Rotary International’s 2013 Lisbon Convention, where in June thousands of Rotarians from around the world convened to discuss their humanitarian work. In each of the seven broadcasts, Jonah Triebwasser, co-host of RadioRotary, interviewed humanitarian leaders whose organizations save lives through various forms of medical and nutritional support. In this last broadcast from Lisbon, interviews include representatives from Walking for Water, Anti-Prostitution, Rotary Rhinos, and the Jaipur Limb Project (inexpensive artificial legs, developed at the Mahaveer hospital in Jaipur, India, especially providing help for those suffering amputations re...
2018-07-1923 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Sleep Disorders and How to Treat Them (October 12, 2012)Dr. Barbara Chatr-aryamontri, Medical Director of the Sleep Center at Northern Dutchess Hospital, but known to her patients as Dr. Chatr, discusses the nature and treatment of sleep disorders. She focuses especially on the common condition of sleep apnea, which people may not even know they have. Co-host Jonah Triebwasser has suffered from this problem, and he describes how treatment improved his quality of life. Dr. Chatr discusses many other sleep disorders and urges those who suspect they are affected to seek treatment because some are not benign.
2018-07-1824 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)New Orleans Rotary Convention Part V (Aired Oct. 21, 2011)In these on-site interviews with Rotarians from around the world at the New Orleans Rotary International Convention in 2011, co-hosts Sarah O’Connell and Jonah Triebwasser interview representatives from Brain Game for Babies, Blindness Prevention, Sewing Projects around the world, Dollywood, Shoes for Orphans, and more.
2018-07-1625 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)New Orleans Rotary Convention Part 1 (June 17, 2011)n this first broadcast of on-site interviews at Rotary International’s Convention, co-hosts Sarah O’Connell and Jonah Triebwasser talk to Rotaracters and other humanitarians from around the world who are working on projects such as Guitars for Troops, maternal health, mercy ships, and artificial limbs.
2018-07-1624 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)2010 Montreal Convention, Part 3 (Aired 11/26/10)RadioRotary host Jonah Triebwasser interviews Rotary’s humanitarians from around the world at Rotary International’s 2010 Convention in Montreal, Canada. Among the many featured guests are Rotarians from the Jaipur Limb Project, which provides inexpensive and long-lasting leg prostheses, and ShelterBox Founder Rotarian Tom Henderson.
2018-07-1528 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)2010 Rotary Convention in Montreal Part 2 - 9/17/10In the second set of on-site interviews at Rotary International’s 101st convention, RadioRotary co-host Jonah Triebwasser interviews humanitarians from around the world, including Rotarians from Arkansas’ Medical Supplies Network and New Mexico’s drug prevention program . Very moving interviews. “Let There Be Peace on Earth,” sung by the Rotary World Choir at the end of the interviews, will bring tears to your eyes.
2018-07-1526 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)2010 Rotary International Convention in Montreal (7/30/10)In a series of on-site interviews at Rotary International’s 101st convention, RadioRotary co-host Jonah Triebwasser interviews humanitarians from around the world. Some examples in this first broadcast: Dollywood Foundation (Ontario Rotary), Mercy Ships (Texas Rotary), End Polio Now (all Rotary clubs around the world, with Guersey Rotary, Great Britain, as an example), Diabetes Awareness (Florida Rotary), Sleeping Children around the World (Ontario Rotary club), much more.
2018-07-1525 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)RadioRotary One-Year Anniversary Celebration (Feb. 5, 2010)In this fun-filled celebration of RadioRotary’s first anniversary on the Hudson Valley Talk Radio network, Co-hosts Jonah Triebwasser and Sarah O’Connell along with Station Manager Don Verity and Technical Producer Jay Verzi have a good time, often at each other’s expense. RadioRotary features Rotarians and other humanitarians in the Hudson Valley and beyond who help make the world a better place. During this show, the co-hosts describe stories, many moving and some amusing, that aired during the past year. RadioRotary is sponsored by Rotary District 7210 and several Rotary clubs in the district.
2018-07-1525 minAt Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)U.N. Day: Rotary International President & more (Aired Nov. 27, 2009)Recorded at the 2009 U.N. Day in New York City, RadioRotary co-hosts Jonah Triebwasser and Sarah O’Connell interview Rotary International President, Scotland’s John Kenny (2009-10) and others. President Kenny discusses his Rotary background and his emphasis during his tenure on water and sanitation, health and hunger, and literacy, emphasizing the importance of Rotary clubs to carry out these projects to make our world a better place. Other humanitarians interviewed include: Millbrook Rotarian David Greenwood, Inbound/Outbound Youth Exchange Coordinator from the Hudson Valley; exchange students from France and Brazil; Rotarians from Smiles for Children, who discuss helping children get...
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At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)England, RI Convention Part II: Youth Projects July 31, 2009RadioRotary co-host Jonah Triebwasser interviews humanitarians in the House of Friendship at the Rotary International Birmingham Convention, where 17,000 Rotarians have gathered. The interviewees include John Byrne from Wales discussing the good works of a Welch Interact club; Patricia Smith from Pennsylvania discussing Youth Exchange and its purposes; a representative of PolioPlus, who is displaying an antique iron lung to show what happened to polio victims during past epidemics; and many more with tales to tell of Rotary humanitarian activities.
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At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Birmingham, England, RI Convention Dr .Jane GoodellIn the first of a two-part series, RadioRotary co-host Jonah Triebwasser interviews humanitarians from around the world in the House of Friendship at the Rotary International Birmingham Convention, where 17,000 Rotarians have gathered. Featured speaker at the Convention, humanitarian Dr. Jane Goodell, gives a fascinating interview. Rotarian Heather Merrian from San Francisco, California discusses Rotaplast (Rotary + Plastic Surgery) whose purpose is to support teams of surgeons who perform cleft palate surgeries overseas. Rotarian Chris Lewis from Los Angeles, California discusses the Wheelchair Foundation, the largest wheelchair relief organization, which provides 10,000 free wheelchairs per month to the needy around the world. This...
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At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)Rotary U.N. Day (Aired on March 27, 2009)At the United Nations on November 7, 2009, RadioRotary co-hosts Sarah O’Connell and Jonah Triebwasser interviewed Exchange Students from the Hudson Valley and representatives from young adult Rotary clubs — Interact and Rotaract – from around the world. Rotarians attended from as far away as Pakistan,. In a special interview with Tom Henderson (Cornwall Rotary Club), founder and creator of ShelterBox, Mr. Henderson explained how his team provides emergency shelter and life saving equipment for up to 10 people per box. Tom Henderson has since been appointed an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for his outstanding contribution to charity and humani...
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