Not a bad way to spend a Sunday morning (apologies to Pastor Joe 😉 ) For the 39th year, the Clovis Rotary Club handed out food to those who need help for the holidays.
Our President’s back. We try to “cover” it.
Locally well known P-R Farms provided both the facility and the large wooden produce bins that were filled with generous donations in Clovis schools. Mix in a healthy amount of donations from vendors with purchases by the club, and a little from all adds up fast. Our school based Rotary Interact clubs (age of 12 to 18-year-olds who work with Rotary clubs to do service projects and develop leadership skills), Rotary sponsored Boy Scouts, at least one school soccer team, Clovis Police, plus family members of all above, showed up in force ready to fill and distribute 500 boxes. Plus, a trailer full of donated Christmas trees for those who needed one.
Boxes were filled as they moved down conveyor rollers, stacked on pallets, then moved to the drive-through lanes by forklifts.
It was an amazing process. This is my first year with this club doing my very small part to help. The scale of the operation was almost overwhelming to see compared to my former and much smaller club in Yosemite National Park where we were ecstatic to distribute 12-20 meals each year.
Good deeds, small or large, are wonderful.
