01/21/2025
“Pouring with a Purpose” lemonade trailer donated to Chino Police
By Josh Thompson. Jan. 18, 2025
As Let it Be Foundation volunteers moved out their final belongings and equipment from the Central Avenue office and warehouse, one piece of their legacy will remain in Chino.
Founders Michael and Ruthe Rosen donated the “Pouring with a Purpose” lemonade trailer to the Chino Police Department for use at community events.
“I let God direct where the trailer was supposed to go,” Mrs. Rosen said on Jan. 9 at an informal ceremony in front of the police department. “We shared this with our board which unanimously agreed to donate the lemonade stand to the Chino Police Department.”
Chino Police Officers’ Association President Alex Wright said he was grateful for the donation and the trailer will be well used.
“The association served between 12,000 and 15,000 meals last year, completely paid for by the officers of the Chino Police Department,” Cpl. Wright said. “We are pretty darn excited to see someone recognize how much work we do in the community, and we will see our association using the heck out of this trailer.”
The trailer will be repainted to reflect the police department and will include the name “The Let it Be Foundation” to keep the legacy alive.
“We just can’t pretend they did not exist,” Cpl. Wright said
The Rosens, longtime Chino Hills residents who moved to Nashville several years ago, established the Let it Be Foundation in 2006 on what would have been the 16th birthday of their only daughter, Karla Asch-Rosen, who succumbed to brain cancer four months earlier.
For the next 18 years, the foundation worked to provide normalcy to families of ill children as they coped with day-to-day living.
“Karla used to say, ‘Give it to God and Let it Be, Amen.’ That became the slogan of our foundation,” Mrs. Rosen said.
A copy of Karla’s winning essay on the DARE program (Drug Awareness Resistance Education) will be incorporated into the re-decoration of the trailer.
Let it Be closed its doors in December after being challenged with state regulations, staff changes, increased expenses, and a decline in annual giving and event revenue.
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