AREA ROTARY, INTERACT
CLUBS JOIN TOGETHER TO PROVIDE
FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY,
HERE AND AROUND THE WORLD
The Rotary
Club of Linden has joined five other clubs in Warren, Clarke, and Frederick counties
in an “Area 1 Rotarians Against Hunger” service project. This effort, in
cooperation with the Stop Hunger Now organization, will purchase and package
24,000 meals on February 6. Stop Hunger Now provides the food for packing at a
cost of 25 cents per meal and ships it to areas all around the world. Area Rotarians
and Interact members (Rotary’s service club for young people
ages 14 to 18)are doing their
part to create a world without hunger, and you can help!
During the
month of January, the Skyline High School Interact Club (sponsored by the Linden
Rotary) and the members of the Rotary Club of Linden are raising funds to
purchase dehydrated food for packaging and shipping to other countries. When
you see a container for this effort at one of the local businesses, please drop
in your change.
Students
from Randolph-MaconAcademyMiddle School donated $110 to the Linden
Rotary in support of the Rotarians Against Hunger project. Two of the students
attended the club’s January 6 meeting to present the donation.
In
addition, the clubs are collecting non-perishable food items for the Front
Royal-Warren County C-CAP (Congregational-Community Action Project) food bank. Non-perishable
food items can be dropped off at The Apple House in Linden, Turner-Robertshaw
Funeral Home (1200 North Shenandoah Avenue), and Jean’s Jewelers (407 East Main Street).
For more
information, call June Rinehart, Linden Rotary (540-636-9984), or Melanie
Hamel, Linden Rotary Interact Club contact (540-671-3369).
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