On Oct 13, members of the Tunkhannock Rotary Club were the honored guests of the Wyoming County Active Adult Center at a luncheon to thank the Club for painting & updating the interior of the building. About 15 Rotarians worked on the project, which was a BYOB (bring your own brush) event. The funds for this project were realized at last year’s Harvest & Wine Festival.
 
Although the club has traditionally funded a lot of programs for the youth in the community, no programs in recent years have been geared to predominantly benefit the senior members of the area. Rotarian Patty Ehrenzeller, who exercises at the Center, proposed this painting/spruce up project at the Center and led it to completion in Oct.
 
The Center members invited the Rotary Club to hold its regular Thursday meeting at the Center with lunch provided as a thank you. The three Tunkhannock exchange students (Stefano Sica from Italy, Andres Mendez Perez from Mexico and Sakulsap “Donut” Lakul from Thailand) gave updates on their recent activities and Rotarian Frank Oliver gave a presentation on the Drug Take Back Event on Oct 22.
 
As a treat, Tunkhannock Rotary President Ann Way arranged for members of the High School Chorus, under the direction of Tara Kasperowski, to come in and entertain the seniors and Rotarians with a choral concert followed by some “oldies but goodies” in a sing-along from the Rotary Song Book. Although many of the teenage choral members had never heard of some of the songs before they began practicing them prior to Oct 13, the more mature members of the audience loved being taken back in time by some old standards like “Let me call you sweetheart”, “I’ve been working on the railroad” and “The band played on”.