Optimists, Order of Alhambra Deliver Food To Those In Need.

Members of the Optimist Club of St. Clair Shores and the Order of Alhambra gathered Sunday assembled and delivered food baskets to 12 local families. 

Volunteers packaged perishable and non-perishable food for each family in at the South Lake Schools' warehouse, and then personally delivered.

Each box of food contains enough food for a family for a week, and includes milk, eggs, bread, spaghetti sauce and noodles, cereal, treats, pop, desserts, peanut butter and jelly, canned vegetables, juice, condiments in addition to the ingredients for a traditional Thanksgiving turkey dinner with all the trimmings. 

Each box of food also has a gift certificate which was given to project co-chair Pattie Wielgot received from her employer, Oak Ridge Market. 

“This is one of the finest group of people to work with,” states Joe Wielgot, this year’s club president and chairperson of the Thanksgiving Food Program in a release.  “Our club’s purpose is to work with the kids and families in our community volunteering our time and services to meet those needs.”  

Families receiving the boxes of food are referred to the Optimists from the administrative offices of  South Lake Schools, Lakeview Public Schools and Lake Shore Schools.

Donations for the project were also collected at the Light up the Shores festivities hosted by the 9-Mack Merchants, and boxes set up at local stores.