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Leaders are vital to our group. These individuals have expressed the time and commitment make an impact for the environment.
Group Chair
Vice Chair
Secretaries
Treasurer
Membership
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Message from the Chair:
Welcome to the web site of the Kittatinny Group of the Sierra Club. We are the largest local environmental group in the area representing local Sierra Club members in Berks and Schuylkill Counties.Please consider getting involved with our group by becoming a Sierra Club member. Membership has a lot of great benefits including our local newsletter, the award-winning Sylvanian (the magazine of the PA Chapter), and Sierra magazine. You also have the opportunity to receive discounts on the Sierra Club's famous outings all over the world.
Available opportunities
The strength of the Sierra Club is that it is a national organization with a local focus. The goals, projects, and campaigns of the local group are determined by local members within the framework of the national group and state chapter. This gives the group a great deal of autonomy to meet local environmental challenges with the support of the nation's leading environmental group. Our agenda is set by our members so if you have an interest in changing your local community share your ideas with us, we want to support you!
ElectionsThe Sierra Club is very proud of its democratic tradition. All executive committee members are elected by local Sierra Club members every year. Members receive a ballot with biographies every year. We encourage members to get involved in the process by running for our executive committee. Contact me at e4bob@yahoo.com or 610-683-4168 for more information.
Profiles and Contact Information
Bob Flatley e4bob@yahoo.com
Group Chair
Bob Flatley is a PA native and grew up near Harrisburg, PA. His family has a traditional of environmental activism, his father has been active in the Governor Pinchot group for many years. His mother has been involved in recycling, healthy eating, and organic gardening since Bob's childhood. Bob currently lives in Kutztown, PA during the school year and in central PA during the summers. He and his wife Kelle have started a vegetarian permaculture community on a land trust near State College. Bob has been a member of Sierra Club for almost 10 years. He was also a founding member of the Pennsylvania Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living festival and continues to serve on the Board. Bob's interests include environmental and social justice, vegetarianism and animal welfare, renewable energy and sustainable living.
Bob Millar RobertJMillar@earthlink.net
Vice ChairInternational Trade
I have been a member of the Sierra Club for over twenty years, and have been active as an Executive Committee member for almost that long. I currently serve as Vice Chair of the local group, and as Political Chair. I am a graduate of Kutztown University (B.S. & ME.D.) and have taught sociology and political science at Reading Area Community College for over thirty years. I also host a monthly "Alternative News" program on Berks Community Television (www.bctv.org) since 1991, which often discusses environmental issues.
My wife Lynn & I have lived in Berks County since the late 1960s, and have raised three children here. We currently live in the woods between Fleetwood and Oley. We have several acres fenced in for our Shetland Sheepdogs, with the rest of the land available for a small herd of deer, wild turkeys, a family of red foxes, groundhogs, gray & red squirrels, turtles, snakes, etc. and many types of birds. We are also fortunate to have some very large oak and tulip popular trees on our property. We have avoided cutting down trees on our property, but have added native scrubs and flowers.
In addition to environmental work and teaching, I take an active role in local and regional politics. I believe good candidates and officeholders need to be supported with my time and contributions. In our democracy, being an involved citizen is very necessary to both protect our environment and protect our political and social freedoms. And a strong and equitable economy is also necessary to maintain that democracy.
Janet Drayer tenon103@netzero.com
Transportation
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Keith Wexler ksqwex@dejazzed.com
Treasurer
A resident of Longswamp Township, Berks County for the past nine years. Active in the Sierra Club Kittatinny group as Treasurer for the past eight years. Married stay home father of one, also very active in my daughter's school, PTO, and Coach of the girls volleyball team.
Laura Fake lfake456@hotmail.com
Membership
Coal Power Plants
Energy
Environmental Justice
Sierra Club member of Berks Group since 1991. Membership Chair. I've helped with phoning our members when we needed members to call their congressional representatives. I would like to continue as Membership Chair.
Kathy Stoica seven7dog@hotmail.com
Kittatinny Newsletter Editor. I am also a member of the Berks County Earth Day Committee. I am a member of the Sierra Club because I believe that we should be responsible and preserve our environment, not only for future generations, but also for the flora and fauna that have little say in regards to our actions.
Julie Gartside jgartside@gmail.com
Secretary
Webmaster
Being a part of the Sierra Club Excom committee has allowed me to join with others that share my concerns for the environment and make an impact on our local community. I am an active hiker with an interest in botany. I believe that our group has encouraged people to enjoy and protect the green world around them. Being on the Excom allows me to get involved in to helping others along the way.
Mark Fiorini organicallymark@yahoo.com
Conservation
CAFOs
Mining
National ForestsState Forests
Waste
Water Quality
Wetlands
I've been with the Kittatinny Group for a couple of years now and I am really enjoying the experience. I started off as just a member, like most of you, but I decided to go to a meeting and then knew I had found a home. I'm now the Water and the Conservation Chair, and I'm having a good time doing it. I'd like to stay on the board and remain very active with it.
Harriet Rauenzahn kojak1415@verizon.net
I became interested in helping to save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge while viewing a slide show presented by the Alaska Wilderness League and sponsored by our local Sierra Club. My interest led me to attend the Sierra Club Kittatinny group executive committee meetings and become a chair representing Alaska issues.
In the ensuing 15 years I have also served as Endangered Species Chair, another passionate interest of mine. The camaraderie in the group is inspiring, and the work, I feel, is important.
I live in Reading with my husband in a 40-year-old house with a spacious yard, flowers, and bird feeders. In my spare time I play the piano, cook a little, play bridge, work out at the gym, and take walks with my Pomeranian, Sofi. I also serve on Reading’s Environmental Advisory Council.
Jillian Rolen jrolen969@lcccmail.org
An Environmentalist in Education…
As a future educator, I believe that by directing ourselves to the children of the world and teaching them about Mother Nature, they can both work on their parents and also become environmentally aware in their own right.
When offered the position of Sierra Student Coalition Liaison for the Pennsylvania Chapter and my local Kittatinny group, I jumped at the opportunity to become actively involved in environmental issues and to further educate my fellow scholars and the local community in order to make the changes we need in this world.
Currently, I am continuing my education at Lehigh Carbon Community College (LCCC) after having received my Associate in Arts Degree in Education from LCCC this December. Also, I am going to initiate an environmental organization at the main LCCC campus in Schnecksville, PA before moving on to a four year institution. In the fall of 2009 I plan to transfer to four-year college where I can continue efforts to bring further environmental awareness to the community.
Outside of the environmental area, I serve as a Presidential Ambassador for Lehigh Carbon Community College; enhance my pre-service portfolio as president of the Teacher Education Student Association; have an opportunity to participate in college governance as a senator for the LCCC Student Government Association, and I am an active member of the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society of the two-year college. Above all, I believe that it is imperative to find peace and embrace beauty in nature every day.
Schnecksville, veterinarian. Life member. Founder of and active in both the Kittatinny Group and Pennsylvania Chapter since 1970. Chapter Delegate At-Large, Delegate to Sierra Club Council of Club Leaders. Bylaws and Standing Rules Committee. My greatest concern is to achieve a globally sustainable future. This requires reducing consumption of resources, especially in the United States, and the stabilization of world population.
Chapter delegate
Book/ CalendarChapter Delegate
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This is Bob... our fearless leader.
Learn more about membership
We are honored to have Patti Fenstermacher, Sierra Club Pennsylvania Chapter Delegate, as part of our local group.
Contact Bob Flatley at
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Kutztown Pa 19530
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