The Lacey Food Bank is thankful and grateful to the members of the Rotary Club of Forked River and the students of the Lacey High School Interact Club who today provided the manpower to pack and carry out the fixins’ for a complete Thanksgiving Dinner for our Lacey Food Bank families. For more than 30 years Thanksgiving Dinners have been a Rotary gift to the Lacey Food Bank families. This year the LTHS Interact students raised $600.00 to help defray part of the cost of providing this holiday meal! With turkeys provided by Walmart and the trimmings from Lacey Shoprite this joint venture with the Lacey Food Bank allows the students, and all of us, to experience first hand a 21st-century version of the first shared harvest feast.
The Lacey Food Bank is indebted to the many community groups, businesses, individuals and schools who open their hearts and their pocketbooks to help us feed the Lacey families who are in need. In a time when more people than ever are reaching out for help, we are proud to be part of a community working together to put food on the tables of those who need it the most.
~ Laura Caroccia