Pictured: Interact and
Byesville club members filling food boxes.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Don't forget Santa will be here for breakfast at the Senior Center on Saturday, 8:00am--11:30.
Byesville Rotary members
celebrated the holiday season by giving back to their community. On Saturday,
club member distributed over 300 food baskets to families in the Rolling Hills School
District.
The food basket community service
project is one of the club’s largest annual projects. Club members began raising
funds for this project several months ago. Part of the funds raised by their
chicken BBQ’s support the food baskets. Fundraising also includes bell ringing
and soliciting local individuals, organization, and businesses for donations.
The club also received a grant from Rotary District 6690.
Food baskets included both
non-perishable and perishable foods. The Meadow Brook Interact club, sponsored
by Byesville Rotary, helped fill the baskets by sponsoring a canned food drive
at all the schools in the Rolling Hills School District. Club members and
Interact members spend the day preceding the food basket distribution sorting
cans and filling baskets with non-perishable food items.
Early on the morning of food
basket distribution day, club members accepted deliveries of perishable food
items including turkeys, milk, oleo, eggs, and produce. As families arrived to
collect their baskets, perishable items were added to the food baskets. Friends
and family members, Interact students, as well as several members of the
Byesville VFW and members of the Phi Chapter of the Alpha Pi Sigma sorority
joined Byesville Rotarians to share the Christmas spirit and help load baskets
into cars.
The
club meets 7:30 am every Tuesday at the Stop Nine Senior Center at 60313 (GPS
use 60299) Southgate Road, Byesville. Anyone interested in learning more about
the Byesville Rotary can call Membership Chairs Marty Patchen, 740-685-3828, or
Evelyn Spring, 740-439-4343.
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