A local woman with a heart of gold left $9750.00 in her will to be used to build accommodation for the elderly in Yass and district in 1967.

The Yass APEX Club was offered the proposal as a service scheme and enthusiastically went about trying to make Mary Callaghan's dream a reality.

Through the years people have donated their time and money to the cause. Such was the community support for the project that Leo Demery and Rita Smith both bequeathed their estates to Yass Apex Club.

The penultimate stage (6) was completed in October 1991 and the final stage (7) began in 2005. It cost $1.500.000 in total including $200.000 worth of earth-works before construction could begin. 

The new tenants donated $450.000 to help build the units and it obviously wouldn't have happened without that contribution.

But on Saturday April 12, Mara Apps, Norm Napper. Bemie Crowe and Alfred McCarthy will officially open the Ray Apps Memorial Units, signifying the realisation of a vision set in motion more than 50 years ago.