Byesville Rotary provides 175 families with Xmas food baskets

Byesville Elementary students show off their donations.

Secrest students ready to load their canned good contribution. 

Brook students with their donation. 

 

Meadowbrook High School students collecting their contributions in the school cafeteria.

 

Shana Fair, Byesville Rotary president, shared the final details of the club’s Christmas food Basket service project with club members. Food baskets were provided or 175 families living in the Rolling Hills School District. This meant the club provided food for about 700 children and adults.

Fair stated that the Rolling Hills Schools did a great job with their canned food drives. She reminded club members to thank the staff, students and parents donated the bulk of the non-perishable goods provided in the food baskets.

Each of the schools held a canned good drive. Students at Meadowbrook High School held a competition among 4^th period classroom. Each classroom was challenged to collect enough canned goods to fill in the doorway of the classroom. The winning classroom partnered with the students at Brook and combined the canned goods collected at Brook with the cans the high school class collected. Byesville Elementary held their drive in conjunction with their Literacy Night. Secrest Elementary and Meadowbrook Middle Schools also made donations to the food basket project.

Fair thanked club members who solicited donations from local businesses and community members. The club also held a successful fundraiser in October by collecting funds at the intersection of Main and 2^nd streets in Byesville. Fair also thanked Jan Wilson who wrote a Rotary to help with funding. Funds raised from these efforts were used to purchase the non-perishables and the turkeys included in the food baskets.

Byesville Rotary at: www.Byesvillerotary.blogspot.com or https://www.facebook.com/pages/Byesville-Rotary/256548047818283. The club meets 7:30 am, Tuesday at the Stop Nine Senior Center at 60313 (GPS use 60299) Southgate Road, Byesville. Walk-ins are welcome at the club’s meeting.