With the Thanksgiving meals donated and distributed by the Rotary and the LTHS Interact Club barely put away in our clients’ cupboards, the Forked River Rotarians set up a post outside of the Walmart in Lanoka Harbor on very windy and chilly Saturday for their Rotary Day Food Drive – a day geared to restocking the shelves of the Lacey Food Bank. In anticipation of another cold winter and an increasing number of families needing help the Rotary Club of Forked River together with the Staff and Shoppers of Walmart pulled together and presented the Lacey Food Bank with more than 800 bags of shelf-stable non-perishable groceries! More than 2500 lbs of food and not one expired can in the lot!!!! And at day’s end, their collection jar held a record-breaking $1468.00 that Rotarian President Heather Scanlon presented to LFB JoAnne Kurtz. This donation will go toward restocking our shelves for Christmas. And perhaps, even more important, this Day of Giving reinforced how all of us together, Rotarians, Walmart, and the Shoppers who supported this program, can be a Gift to the World simply by doing a little bit of good, right where we live! Thank You Rotary Club of Forked River, Walmart, and Walmart Shoppers for your support of this Rotary effort to help those in our community who need it the most!
~ Laura Caroccia
