MONESSEN WOMAN TO HOST ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONFERENCE IN TURKEY

A Monessen woman is getting set to host a peace conference in Istanbul, Turkey, for Rotary International.  The Trib reports that Stephanie Urchick, who is the 2024-25 Rotary International President, leads 1.4 million members in more than 46,000 clubs globally, Urchick is furthering the organization’s foundational goal of world understanding by hosting a February peace conference.  The theme of the conference is “Healing in a Divided World”.  She said that the main goal of the conference is to inspire, inform and have conversations and presentations that will give the participants a chance to talk about peace building.  The conference is in conjunction with the first class of peace fellows at the new Otto and Fran Walter Rotary Peace Center in Istanbul, the seventh such center to open in strategic locations worldwide.