Local Celebrities to Participate in Rotary Club of Saucon Fundraising Event

Local Lehigh Valley celebrities will lend a hand to the Rotary Club of Saucon’s upcoming Celebrity Bartending Event, proceeds of which will go to support the Club’s programs. The event will be held at , Route 378, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012 from 6-8 pm. Included in the celebrity roster are:

• Dave Doll (Martin Guitar and The Beautiful Distortion band member)
• Chris Line (Local radio/TV host, currently to be heard on Cat Country 96.1/ WLEV)
• George Wacker (LehighValleywithLove.com Blog)
• Silagh White (Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University)
• Linda Young (Formerly of St. Luke's University Health Network and an officer of the Rotary Club of Saucon)

As well as:

• Amanda Fabrizio (Lehigh University & President of the Rotary Club of Saucon)
• Tony Jannetta (District Governor of Rotary District 7430)

Celebrity bartenders will serve wine and beer to Starters patrons, and all proceeds from the event will go to support Rotary Club of Saucon programs such as eradicating polio (PolioPlus), their high school international youth exchange program, their Book Fairy book project for disadvantaged students in the Lehigh Valley, and other community-related projects.

In addition, Starters Pub has offered The Rotary Club of Saucon participation in its Dine to Donate program, where it donates 10% of all purchases made from Aug. 13, 2012 to Sept. 13, 2012 to the club. Patrons must present a Dine to Donate voucher, which can be obtained by visiting the Rotary Club of Saucon’s website at: Rotaryclubofsaucon.blogspot.com.

About Rotary International and Rotary Club of Saucon

• Rotary International has more than 1.2 million members worldwide.
• Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto “Service Above Self.”
• Rotary Club of Saucon currently has 33 members from a variety of professions, backgrounds and age groups.
• Rotary Club of Saucon does projects serving the Saucon, Southern Lehigh, Center Valley and Hellertown communities.
• Rotary Club of Saucon meets weekly for breakfast at 7:30am on Tuesday morning at the DeSales University Center. The public is welcome to attend.
• Rotary Club of Saucon sponsors two Youth Exchange Program students a year — inbound and outbound. The students spend up to a year living with host families and attending school in a different country.
• PolioPlus, the most ambitious program in Rotary’s history, is the volunteer arm of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. For more than 25 years, Rotary International has played a major role in the fight to end polio worldwide, contributing more than $800 million to the effort through its PolioPlus program.