SWAN (Scaling Walls A Note at A Time) students will perform at our April 9th meeting. SWAN is one of the programs we support in the Summer Youth Experience. This performance comes after a very special sequence of events happened before Christmas. For more than four decades, Rotary Club of Lancaster members have been ringing Christmas bells as volunteers for the Salvation Army Lancaster Corp’s Kettle Campaign. To enhance the experience and size of the crowd, Rotary invited students and their teacher from the program called SWAN which serves children of incarcerated parents by focusing on music education and participation to enrich their lives and school experience. As the SWAN students sang, Rotary members noticed that many of the students didn’t have winter coats despite the cold and wind of the day. This triggered a “Service above Self” action with the Salvation Army “Coats for Kids” program. With Rotary coordination SWAN teachers provided the names, ages, genders, sizes, and school for each student performer. Salvation Army selected and matched a winter coat for each of the identified
students.