At today’s meeting our club heard from Michelle Foote, who spoke about the Ray Lovato Recycling Center. We collected donations for Rock Springs Animal Control to help with the recent influx of surrendered animals (23 in one day) including: The club also inducted three new members! Please welcome Storm Adcock, Brenda Roosa, and Lynn Young to our organization!
Our club recently donated this stunning basket for the fundraiser for the McKenzie Home.
Our Busy Hands Sections spent a recent meeting helping the White Mountain Library with their Seed Library, but packaging seeds envelopes and their corresponding information sheets! Join us at the next busy hands meeting to help contribute to this and other important local causes!
Our club recently made a donation to a the Rock Springs City Council to help with beautifying the columbarium at our local cemetery.
Every year our club donates 10% of the income generated by our Holiday House raffle to a charity of the homeowner’s choosing. Our 2023 Holiday House hostess Carmen Lakey selected Alzheimer’s as the cause she wanted to support. The club ended up donating $240.
Club members supported the 2023 Power of the Purse event to benefit Hospice of Sweetwater County.
For this year’s Advocates for Children week, our club gathered donations of items for children in foster care. Thank you to April Dittman, this year’s Junior Special Programs chair, for organizing this donation!
After collecting donations from the community throughout the month of September, our club donated 205 Pounds of food to the “Loaves and Fishes Soup Kitchen” to help combat food insecurity in Sweetwater County.
We are working to fight food insecurity this month. Look for our collection boxes at both Libraries in Rock Springs and the one in Green River, Family Vision, Joes liquor, Larry’s Hair Salon, High Country Hearing Center and the Mane Place. Food donations will go to the soup Kitchen at the end of the month. They will be used for cooking meals and to give to people who are in need. Some items suggested by the Food Kitchen include: List of items the Soup Kitchen
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Our club recently donated two baskets as door prizes for the 49th annual conference of the non-profit Wyoming Writers, Inc.
