Published June 02. 2026 02:11PM<\/p>\n
Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Bethlehem continued their stewardship of the Sand Island Children\u2019s Garden May 2 by adding 145 plants to create a pollinators\u2019 garden against the backdrop of mural art created by Vo-Tech students on a Fritch Fuel Company storage building. A crew of volunteers from the club prepared the soil and planted cone flowers, black-eyed Susans, Joe Pye weed and bee balm among the plant species selected.<\/p>\n
Professional landscaper Janice Schmidt, a member of the Monocacy Creek Watershed Association board, provided layout and plant selection guidance.<\/p>\n
Past Rotary district governor Diane Donaher says the 54 member club schedules a weeding and cleanup twice yearly since celebrating its 100th anniversary ten years ago by renovating the garden area in celebration of the city\u2019s 275th anniversary. She says the installation of the pollinator garden celebrates the Rotary Club of Bethlehem\u2019s 110th anniversary.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe environment is one of the Rotary\u2019s seven areas of focus,\u201d adds Donaher who says the $2,400 project was funded half by the Rotary Club of Bethlehem and half by a Rotary district marketing grant.<\/p>\n
Donaher says that the Bethlehem Club is always looking for more people to join Rotary. They meet on Wednesday\u2019s at noon at Prime. For more information visit their Website at bethlehemparotary.org.<\/p>\n
According to The Bee Conservancy, \u201cbees are responsible for pollinating one out of three bites of food and 80 percent of the world\u2019s flowering plants.\u201d<\/p>\n
Visit thebeeconservancy.org for more information.<\/p>\n
Press photos by Dana GrubbA group of Rotarians work on May 2 to layout and sow plants in the pollinator section of the garden.<\/p>\n
\u201cI planted one,\u201d exclaims past Rotary district governor Diane Donaher, of a Joe Pye Weed.<\/p>\n
Working off a schematic drawing, professional landscaper Janice Schmidt places individual plants in their appropriate locations.<\/p>\n
The Rotary Club of Bethlehem is celebrating its 110th anniversary with the planting of the pollinator bed at the Sand Island Children\u2019s Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published June 02. 2026 02:11PM Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Bethlehem continued their stewardship of the Sand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-209157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}