Lions Club makes generous donation
The Tofield Lions Club made a generous donation of $1,500 to the Tofield-Ryley & Area Food Bank in October to help tide over the slower months. “This amount will help us fill the void of the slower donation months,” said Sue McNabb, Food Bank Vice Chair. “We appreciate this from the bottom of our hearts.”
Dan Hillyer of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who is also a Tofield Lions Club member, learned about the significantly increased number of hampers that the Tofield-Ryley & Area Food Bank had been giving out since July 1, and the decreased amount of food and cash donations. This prompted him to speak to his fellow members at the Lions Club, resulting in them making the donation, according to Dawn Arnold, President of the Tofield-Ryley & Area Food Bank.
“During the months of July and August we do not have any scheduled donations coming in,” Arnold explained. “And this year especially it was an enormous surprise to us that our July and August hamper numbers were at a record high . . . contd.
