By Mary Frances Gosnell, Chair
Talents – let us think – interviewers, family counselors, mind readers, Interpreters, shoppers, coordinators, packers, wrappers, gift consultants, truckers, haulers, movers, leaders, followers, cardboard engineers, analysts, custodians, workers, volunteers, adjusters, sleigh drivers, Santas, jokesters, sorters, and on and on. That is what it takes to make this project a winner! Lots of Talent! And we will put all these talents to work
Oh, that was the December Lions Tale message…….. But we put all those talents to work to make our Holiday Giving Project one to be proud of. Let’s think of the project in numbers –
- We served 78 children and 89 adults, a total of 167 people
- We served 30 families
- We coordinated food drives with schools and NRC Employee Club netting some 6000 items
- A member of the NRC Employee Club made 100 pot holders
- We received over 90 toys from the Tradesmen Motorcycle Club Jingle Bell Toy Run including two bicycles
- We worked approximately 390 hours to make the project a success
- Thirty three Lions, 2 partners-in-service, 4 family members, 9 Boy Scouts and 12 friends of Lions worked on the project
- We purchased 152 clothing items for the children and had 4 items donated
- We purchased 30 pounds of butter, 30 gallons of milk, 30 dozen of eggs and 300 pounds of potatoes
- We purchased 60 dozen dinner rolls and 60 loaves of bread
- We had 3 dozen of cookies for 30 families – 90 dozen homemade cookies
- We had mittens, gloves, socks or hats and scarves for each of the 78 children donated by Lions
- We filled a stocking for each family with 10 different items – a total of 300 items donated by Lions
- Two bushel of apples (approximately 160) were donated by Butler’s Orchard
- We had 360 oranges purchased from Laytonsville Lions
- 170 toothbrushes donated by Damascus Dental Group
- Lions donated $ 451.61 in cash thru “Albert’s Jar”!
And so the project is complete for 2014 at a cost of $ 3,954.18. The Holiday Giving Fund is still in progress and counting.
Thank you to key people in the project –
- Lion Chris Fletcher who profiled every family in a very timely manner and followed the project to the end
- Lion Bob Newlin who followed thru with the school food drives with much success
- Partners-In-Service Jennifer Molesworth and Bonnie Mayhew who helped with toys, shopped for clothes and coordinated the wrapping of the clothes
- Ray Molesworth who gets the food boxes, who waits in the sideline for my beckon and call, goes to the store with me to get the perishable foods and then helps pack it in the boxes and takes the extra food to the HELP Closet
- Last but not least – all Lions, yes,all of you, who have been a real support group with the whole project.
The Holiday Giving Project is one that the Damascus Lions can take pride in knowing that thirty families in the Damascus/Clarksburg area were served this Holiday Season!
Thank you Lions for a GREAT HOLIDAY GIVING PROJECT!
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