Each year the Orange Elks deliver Christmas Baskets in the city of Orange to families that are in need.
This year would be no different, get donations, purchase the items for the baskets, have a Italian dinner, assemble the baskets and then deliver them on Saturday. Again this year was an example of how the lodge uses Time, Treasure, Talent and Teamwork to complete a great project. Our Christmas basket committee, Colin Smith, Jim Jung, Adam Thomasson and Don Westerfield made sure it went off without a hitch. Collecting over $8.000 in cash donations, picking up 100 boxes of food from the Food Bank of OC, purchasing the food items for the boxes and 30 bikes,
assembling and taping the 200 boxes,
preparing an Italian Dinner for one hundred and seventy five people,
Our dinner servers
The stations for assembling of the baskets included canned and dry foods
and over fifty cars and trucks delivered the Christmas Baskets with the bikes
Stuffed animals and candy canes were included
It was especially great to see so many kids helping out!
L- R Sarah Ricker, Dalton Saunders and Julia Brower
