Byesville Rotary donates toys to Interact Angel Tree

Pictured: Byesville Rotary members donate toys to the Meadow Brook Interact Club for their Angel Tree project.

 

No reading assignment for next meeting.

 

Reminder:
Call Bob Long or Denis Harding to volunteer for bell ringing. This effort raises funds to support the Christmas food basket program. We have around 160 families to provide baskets for.

 

 

Mark the dates December 14 and 15. Celebrate Christmas with other club members by helping pack and distribute food baskets.

 

 

Byesville Rotary members celebrate the holiday season by giving back to their community. At their Tuesday meeting, club members brought toys to be donated to the Rolling Hills Interact Club in support of their Angel Tree project. This project insures that about 40 students from the Rolling Hills elementary and middles schools will be getting Christmas gifts from Santa this year.

 

On Friday, December 14, Interact club members will return the favor by joining Byesville club members to fill Christmas food baskets. Basket filling day takes muscles and stamina. Interact students and Rotary club members will begin their day by collecting hundreds of pounds of canned goods from each of the Rolling Hills schools. During November, students from Rolling Hills School District have collected canned goods and other non-perishable items to contribute to the food basket project. Once the canned goods are delivered, cans will be sorted and up to 200 baskets will be filled. 

 

Christmas Food Basket distribution will begin on Saturday, December 15, at 7:00am. Club members will arrive early to pack another 200 baskets with perishables including milk, eggs, and turkey. Baskets can only be given to families who have signed up. Bob Long, chair of the Christmas Food Basket project, stated that the food basket program is open to any family living in the Rolling Hills School District. Families who would like to receive a basket and have not yet signed up can call him at 740-685-3620. The deadline to sign up for a basket is Wednesday, December 12. 

 

On Saturday, December 22, Byesville Rotarians will ring in Christmas week by hosting “Breakfast with Santa.” Breakfast will be served between 8:30 am—11:30am at the Stop Nine Senior Center in Byesville. Santa will be at the breakfast to talk to the children attending the breakfast. 

 

The club will be serving pancakes, eggs, sausage, juice, milk, and coffee. Cooking again this year are Rich Dair, Head Chef, and Larry Miller, Pancake Specialist. Breakfast is $5.00. Pictures with Santa are complementary with the purchase of breakfast. Funds raised at the breakfast will be used by the Rotary to support local service projects such as providing dictionaries for every third grader in Rolling Hills or supplying Christmas food baskets.

 

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.