Thank you to all of you who worked with the Thanksgiving food and delivery to make it another successful project. I am amazed with the energies and cooperation that you put forth! You are a great group of folks to work with. Ya git in thar an’ ya gitter dun! No fooling around!
Seriously, Lion Chris profiled all the families and obtained so much info for us – some corrections as well as some incite into the family situation.
Lion Bob Newlin again coordinated the School Food Drives with Rocky Hill Middle School coming thru with approximately 2500 items and Damascus High School with approximately 1200 items. We take half of the DHS Food Drive while the Legion receives the other half. Thanks to all the “food movers”.
Lion Joy coordinated the sorting of food and packing it into the boxes with the help of 8 other Lions – there was no socializing, you all kept your hands busy and had completely filled all the food boxes in 2 and half hours.
Lions Warren and Rusty made up the boxes, bagged the apples and kept the cardboard under control. Lion Bob Snapp assigned all the boxes to the families. Lion Warren went with me to Safeway to get the non-perishables on Friday. Lion Ray met me at Safeway on Saturday to get the perishable items.
And then to make it all happen, 9 teams of Lions, family and friends loaded up their vehicles and made the deliveries on Saturday AM.
We were finished Saturday by 9:30.
We clocked over 150 hours on this project, with approximately 40 people involved and spent $1,471.00 on food. Butler’s Orchard donated the apples, Huang Distributors donated 2 dozen dinner rolls and the Goldstein Family baked and elegantly prepared a special pumpkin loaf package for each family. Hyatt Building and Supply, namely Phil Green, graciously let us use the room, used their pallets and loader to move the food for us and have stored the non perishables that we did not use until Christmas. When you see any and all of these donors, please express our appreciation.
Again – Thank you to all of you! It sure makes a project so satisfying when all of us put our efforts forth to serve! I am so grateful for all of you and the Lions Club!