Rotary asks community to help make this a 'picture perfect' holiday season

[November 15, 2013]  The Lincoln Rotary Club is sponsoring a food drive this holiday season and asking all members of the community to get involved. All of the proceeds from this drive will go to the Logan County Food Pantry.

Rotary is asking the community to help make this a "picture perfect" holiday season and help Rotarians with "stocking" their shelves in order to stock the Logan County Food Pantry shelves. The goal is to have the Rotary Christmas Tree filled with nonperishable food items by the time of the Main Street Lincoln Christmas Parade on Dec. 5. The man-made tree was constructed by Lincoln Rotarians to help measure and display the amount of food donated by the community.

"We want everyone to have a visual of the generosity of our wonderful community. This not only allows us to show off the amount of food donated, but we are also hoping it will be a nice Christmas display for our downtown." said Michelle Bauer, who is helping lead the project for Rotary.

You can watch the Lincoln Rotary Christmas Tree being decorated with food items by visiting the display window at 113 N. Kickapoo St., next to Abe's.

Rotary is asking that people not leave food items at the 113 N. Kickapoo address. Donations of nonperishable food and cash donations will be accepted at the following locations:

• Lincoln College Library, 300 Keokuk

• Lincoln Park District, 1400 Primm Road

• Lincoln YMCA, 604 Broadway, Suite 1

• Lincoln Animal Hospital, 1415 N. Kickapoo

• Chamber office, 1555 Fifth St.

• Or with any local Rotarian

With questions, contact Michelle Bauer at 217-750-1061.

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Rotary food drive (PDF)