Trees for the Trail

Mrs. Nelda Gross Shue shares a photo of her husband, Captain William Martin Shue, MD, with Mrs. Linda Elicker, a representative of the Trees for the Trail committee.  Mrs. Shue honored her late husband with a donation to the project; she was the first individual donor to make a contribution. The Rotary Clubs of York, Southern York County, and Dallastown/Red Lion are working to preserve the Road of Remembrance Veterans Memorial.

The Rotary Clubs of York, Southern York County, and Dallastown/Red Lion are working together to restore the Road of Remembrance Veterans Memorial.  This example of early landscape architecture was completed in the early 1920s by the War Mother’s Club to honor WW I veterans.  It consisted of 400 sycamore trees planted from the Maryland Line to the southern end of Jacobus.  Today only 200 of these century old trees remain.

York County Drug Dog - Help fund Spenser’s replacement

Meet Spenser.  In his lifetime, He was a force in the war against the opioid epidemic removing $25 Million in drug confiscations during his career.  Spenser passed away last month.

Our club is leading a county wide effort of all Rotary Clubs to remove millions of dollars of toxins from our community.   Join us on May 4^th for Give Local York to fund a drug detection dog for York County.

Research on the opioid epidemic states the total estimated burden from the epidemic in the past 17 years is $1 trillion, and the biggest share of that burden is borne by families — who measure the damage not only in financial terms, but in terms of anxiety and heartache.  A War this severe doesn’t have a silver bullet fix but Rotary can make a difference and reduce this destruction in our community.  

Rotary day of service – Quilting bee

On April 21, twenty volunteers completed 16 blankets made of fleece with fun themes for children.   The blankets, like the one shown, are being donated to the YWCA York’s ACCESS York program.  This program is a domestic abuse shelter in York that has intake safe houses for women and their children who are displaced due to violence.  The children will be given a reusable bag that will contain a blanket, an age appropriate book and a stuffed animal.  There are different bags for boys and girls and different age groups.  

The bags with the blankets will be presented to Jean Treauthart, a Downtown York Rotarian and the execuative director of YWCA York’s Access York program, on May 9, 2018 at our weekly meeting.