One of State College Sunrise Club service projects is to support local police at Camp Cadet. Centre County Camp Cadet is a summer camp designed for youth aged 12-15, focusing on personal development through engaging activities led by local law enforcement. Participants will learn valuable skills while enjoying a week of fun and friendship. The camps are split between girls and boys. Each group spends a week at the Camp learning several life skills, having fun and making new friends. At the conclusion of the camp, the campers have a party to celebrate making it through the week together. They have smores, ice cream and make mountain pies.

The Sunrise Rotary members prep several mountain pie types, such as blueberry, cherry, apple and of course pizza (a favorite of many). The club members help the campers put the stuffed bread into the mountain pie makers. Campers then place them in a fire for cooking. Most turn out good but there are always a few that are a little darker than one would want. All were enjoyed and the campers gave the Rotarians a big “THANK YOU” at the conclusion of the event.

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Jill and Ron on the Mountain Pie assembly line for the Girls camp. (Art Leach missing from photo)

Mike, Pam, Don on the Mountain Pie assembly line for the Boys camp. (Marce Pancio missing from photo).

The State College Sunrise Rotary Club participates in the State College Arts Festival every year. A team of Rotarians take a 4-hour shift to pick up trash and recyclables from many stations around the festival. It is a hot and smelly job, but we enjoy doing it.

The trash and recycling materials are deposited at a central station for transport to the Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority facility for processing. The 3-day event creates tons of waste that would previously go to the landfill, but now a portion is recycled.
Members Volenteering
– Chris Sebora (Shawn’s husband)
– Scott Rawson
– Shawn Sebora
– Jill Ausherman
– David Snowe
– Jeff Krantweiss
– Devin Mathias
– Tiffany Mathias
– Don Carter
– Phil Miles and Son
– Art Leach
– Dave Snowe
– Larry Walker
– Mike Majewski

Every year, in downtown State College, you’ll see large, personalized banners with hearts celebrating our community. Proceeds from the project will benefit the club’s efforts to support the community and nonprofit organizations across the region.

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Operation Pollination recognizes the importance of pollinator habitat both restored and maintained on public and private lands.  Through collaboration and outreach, an interconnected mosaic of pollinator habitat interspersed between public and private land will be developed to stabilize and/or increase populations of pollinator species throughout your project area.

The State College Sunrise Rotary Club and The Corner Room help make Yuletide bright for area children by managing Santa’s Mailbox during this Christmas season. A repurposed U.S. Postal Service mailbox located outside The Corner Room allows children a place to deposit their annual letter to Santa—and get a letter back with a special holiday message from Mr. and Mrs. C! Our club is delighted to get “elf it up” every year between Thanksgiving and mid-December.

The State College Sunrise Rotary Club supports the Park Forest Pre-School with reading books for the students. Each week the club asks local people to come and present on a community topic. To honor the presenter(s) the club donates a book. Each book is marked with the name and date of each presenter.