Young assumes presidency of Rotary club

PRESCOTT – Tuesday’s meeting of the Prescott Rotary was a time of change.

This is because former president Patricia Roberts officially passed the gavel to Bo Young, the club’s president for the next year.

With no formal agenda, club members talked about harborage and food boxes. Debbie Crowder said there’s questions about the legality of the club removing shrubs and overgrown plants from private property, and it’s being checked into by Prescott City Attorney Eric Hughes. She pointed out harborage has nothing to do with unkempt and yards not mowed, but shrubbery and plants that haven’t been cut back for years and provide a place for rodents to live.

Rowe Stayton talked about blessing boxes, suggesting such food boxes be placed in local businesses where people can donate and those in need can take canned and packaged goods with them. He suggested the boxes be placed outside the businesses during the day and brought in at night. This would allow them to be monitored to see how it’s going. He also suggested a charge of a canned good be admission for the upcoming July 4 fireworks show.

Stayton offered to build boxes and paint them blue.