Current Class Projects

The Local Flavor of Lackawanna
As members of the 2007-2008 Leadership Lackawanna class, we have chosen to support the Children's Advocacy Center by holding a wine and food tasting event - The Local Flavor of Lackawanna. The goal of the evening is to bring community awareness to the issues abused children face, while highlighting the fact that they need not go through these troubling times alone. Financially, we hope to raise funds to help sustain the efforts currently provided by the Children's Advocacy Center.  Our event will be held Thursday, June 5, 2008 from 6-9 PM at the Scranton Cultural Center.  A variety of local wine and restaurants, a celebrity auction, door prizes, raffles and much more will be featured!  Tickets are $50 per person and can be purchased from our website – Local Flavor Lackawanna  For additional information please click HERE.

Project Success: A Conference for Youth
Project Success: A Conference for Youth is designed to introduce local high school students to avenues that will help them to be successful by exposing them to various speakers, exercises, and activities.  The Conference will give the students an opportunity to shadow a local business professional and learn about a job they have some interest in pursuing following high school.  The Conference will take place at Lackawanna College on Saturday, April 26, 2008 and May 3, 2008 with the job shadow taking place during the week of April 28, 2008.  For more information, please contact Marie Allison at (570) 702-8924 or mallison@johnson.edu.

Leave Your Mark on the Park
Leadership Lackawanna, a program of the Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce, recently announced a group project from the current Leadership class focusing on the restoration of the Schimelfenig Pavilion at Nay Aug Park.  The project also includes installing landscaping and a brick-paver walkway and patio on both sides of the pavilion.  Restoration of the pavilion will include replacing all exterior woodwork, facades, and panels with AZEK Trimboard.  AZEK Building Products is donating all façade material for the project.  Construction work is being donated by local contractors and volunteers.  To raise funds for the restoration, group members are selling brick pavers that will be used for a brick-paver patio and walkway around the pavilion.  Each brick can be engraved with up to four lines.  6”x9” brick pavers are available for $100 each; corporate sponsorships are available on 12”x12” brick pavers for $250 and can include a corporate logo for $275.  To purchase your brick paver and/or for additional information contact Bonnie Urzen at (570) 963-2750 or blu2@psu.edu or visit Electric City Renaissance and click on the link for the Leave Your Mark on the Park group project.  For additional information please click HERE.

Answering the Call of the Wild
The Genesis Wildlife Sanctuary in Nay Aug Park, a non-profit organization, has been a home to exotic and endangered animals that were rescued from owners who acquired them illegally, were no longer wanted by zoos because of their age or health, or were captured by the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Without the Genesis Wildlife Sanctuary, these animals—often thought of as “throw-aways”—would have been euthanized.  Members of the 2008 Leadership Lackawanna class created the “Answering the Call of the Wild Project” in order to assist the Wildlife Sanctuary in providing the best life possible to these animals.  The primary goals of this project include promoting awareness of the mission of the sanctuary, organizing various on-site cleanups and raising money for food and supplies.  In the past, the Nay Aug Park Zoo was home to many animals that hold special places in our hearts and memories. Who can forget Joshua the Donkey and Tilly the Elephant? Today, we are asking you to open your hearts to Reba the Tiger, Yasheka the Siberian Lynx and other animals of the Genesis Wildlife Sanctuary by sponsoring the Answering the Call of the Wild project.  Our goal is to raise $15,000 including in-kind donations, and each dollar raised will go directly to support the Sanctuary.  For more information about how your tax-deductible donation will help, contact Desiree Ranella at dranella@scrantonchamber.com.  For additional information please click HERE.

Current Class 2007 - 2008