At Your Service(formerly RadioRotary)

We are nearly there, very close. The success of Rotary International’s polio eradication campaign, called PolioPlus, is described by Rotary District 7210’s PolioPlus Chair Bunnee Webb who clarifies why polio continues to be an issue in the world today. Since there are still a few people not yet vaccinated here and abroad, this leaves non-vaccinated people, especially children, open to this infecti...

Miller, Chair of Rotary District 7210’s World Community Service (facilitated through The Rotary Foundation), discusses this committee’s humanitarian contributions here and abroad. Host Rotary clubs in the United States connect with Rotary clubs in other parts of the world to implement projects that assist people in need. Projects include clean water, literacy, health care, and education. Ms. Mille...

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 Shelter...

Sue Gould, Executive Director of the Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse in Dutchess County, discusses her organization’s mission: to protect children, advocate on their behalf, and educate the community on how to prevent abuse. The Center partners with local schools, law enforcement agencies, and the Dutchess County Department of Social Services to achieve these goals. Ms. Gould describes ho...

Rotary District 7210’s World Peace Fellow Chair and Past District Governor in 2001-02, Betsy Kopstein-Stuts (Poughkeepsie South Rotary Club) discusses The Rotary Foundation’s World Peace Fellow scholarship program that trains people in conflict resolution. Each year 60 Fellows from around the world are selected for the program and can choose from seven universities to get a Master’s degree related...

Environmental advocate and outdoors writer for the Poughkeepsie Journal since 1994, Bill Conners addresses conservation and hunting and fishing issues. He holds numerous leadership positions in such organizations as the Federation of Dutchess County Fish and Game Clubs and the New York State Fish and Wildlife Management Board for Region 3 (covering most of the Hudson Valley). Mr. Conners discusses...

Penny Hickman, Vice President of the Conservation Awareness Foundation and member of the Board of Directors of the Federation of Dutchess County Fish and Game, discusses the humanitarian nonprofit group called Hunters Helping the Hungry. Volunteer hunters in this organization safely process mainly venison, but also fish and game birds, according to government standards. Hunters, who have more than...

Kathy Kruger, Registered Nurse and Assistant Governor of Rotary District 7210 (Region 3), discusses her role as Rotaplast (Rotary + Plastic Surgery) Ambassador for the district. This program provides cleft lip and cleft palate surgery for children around the world. Besides describing the causes of this medical disfigurement, Ms. Kruger also explains the effects on children, from death caused by ma...

Rotary District 7210’s Past District Governor Dr. Jim Yarmus (2007-2008) discusses his journey from Cuba in 1960 to becoming a U.S. citizen, a Civil Engineer, a Rotarian (Spring Valley Rotary), and a district governor. A Past President of the Society of Civil Engineers, today Dr. Yarmus is a professor of Project, Construction, and Planning Management. As a member of Engineers without Borders, he r...

RadioRotary’s first interview on the Hudson Valley Talk Radio Network features Rotary District 7210’s Past District Governor Jeffrey Keahon (2008-2009) from Pearl River Rotary Club. Defining Rotary as “an international network of community volunteers, primarily business and professional people” from around the world, Mr. Keahon explains Rotary’s various Avenues of Service, from global initiatives...