"Fill The Bus" project underway
Posted by Robert Chambers
on Aug 21, 2012
The club's annual "Fill The Bus" project done each fall in partnership with the Rotary Club of Breckenridge, MN and radio station KBMW is underway.
This year the project will help not only the Richland Wilkin Food Pantry, that runs out of food at the end of each summer due to the lack of food drives over the summer, but also the Backpack Food Program for Kids. The latter is a program that seeks to send a bag of food home from school to help meet childern's need for food over the weekends. It is sad that many children's only food each day is their school meal on school days.
The next "Fill The Bus" is at EconoFoods in Wahpeton Thursday August 23, 2012 from 9 AM until 4 PM.
An addition this year is that the bus will be at the Breck-Wahp football game (this year in Wahpeton) on August 31, 2012. Non perishable food and cash donations will be accepted before the game.
The last drive will be at Jubilee Foods in Breckenridge on Monday September 10, 2012 from 9 AM to 4 PM.
The goal of the two Rotary clubs this year is 10,000 pounds of food and $ 2,000.00 in cash donations. The Richland-Wilkin Community has always been generous; please step up again this year,.
This year the project will help not only the Richland Wilkin Food Pantry, that runs out of food at the end of each summer due to the lack of food drives over the summer, but also the Backpack Food Program for Kids. The latter is a program that seeks to send a bag of food home from school to help meet childern's need for food over the weekends. It is sad that many children's only food each day is their school meal on school days.The next "Fill The Bus" is at EconoFoods in Wahpeton Thursday August 23, 2012 from 9 AM until 4 PM.
An addition this year is that the bus will be at the Breck-Wahp football game (this year in Wahpeton) on August 31, 2012. Non perishable food and cash donations will be accepted before the game.
The last drive will be at Jubilee Foods in Breckenridge on Monday September 10, 2012 from 9 AM to 4 PM.
The goal of the two Rotary clubs this year is 10,000 pounds of food and $ 2,000.00 in cash donations. The Richland-Wilkin Community has always been generous; please step up again this year,.