Natalie Tung, co-founder and Executive Director of the HomeWorks House program in Trenton, was our guest luncheon speaker on Friday, February 14.
HomeWorks is a community organization whose goal is to provide a boarding school experience for marginalized girls enrolled in public schools in Trenton. The girls receive free housing in a HomeWorks dormitory accompanied by tutoring and counseling, all with the hope of encouraging the participants to strive for social justice for themselves and those in their community.
Our guest speaker at the Hyatt Regency Princeton on Friday February 21st was Miles Truesdell of Leigh Imaging. Miles spoke about the benefits and drawbacks of AI in photography. Leigh Photo and Imaging was established in 1945 as a photo studio and has since grown to include a vast range of services in the visual Communications industry.
Tom Murray, a pilot with American Airlines and husband of current Princeton Corridor Rotary member Donna Murray had the pleasure of flying the Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles (and the Lombardi Trophy) back to Philadelphia from New Orleans after the Super Bowl. Fly Eagles Fly!
Our guest speaker on Friday January 10th at our weekly meeting at the Hyatt Regency Princeton was our newest member Danny Antezana, an executive with DSM-Firmenich in Plainsboro. Firmenich is the global leader in innovation in health, nutrition and beauty. Danny discussed the science behind making the presence of Omega 3 in food/drink product more palatable. He also talked about the supply chain issues in the modern world for a company like Firmenich as well as his former Rotary Club The Rotary Club of São Paulo, Brazil-Japan.
On Friday January 17, The Princeton Corridor Rotary Club was proud to welcome back one of our 2022 college scholarship award winners from West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South, Charlie Sheerin. Charlie is currently a junior at Lehigh University majoring in Mechanical Engineering. Charlie reached out to our club because he wanted to stop by to give us an update on his activities over the last three years. He credits the Rotary Scholarship quite a bit with helping him in his endeavors the last few years.
Anthony Carabelli Jr., the director of the Mercer County Office of Economic Development and Darren Stewart, the business advocate for the Mercer County Office of Economic Development were our speakers at our weekly lunch meeting at noon on Friday January 24 at the Princeton Hyatt Regency. Anthony and Darren discussed all the assistance available for small businesses through Mercer County. They provided details on up to $1 million in funding for business grants. Info on the grant and rebate programs are available at www.MercerCounty.org/work/economic-development.
Members of the Princeton Corridor Rotary got together at Metro North Restaurant in Princeton for our monthly social hour event on Tuesday February 11th. A fun time was had by all who attended.
The Princeton Corridor Rotary was honored to welcome Eamon Blanchard , the Chief of Police/Director of Public Safety of Plainsboro Township as our guest speaker on Friday February 7. Chief Blanchard spoke about the recent reorganization of the Department Public Safety within the department as well as the very successful Length of Service award program.
