Carnegie-Collier Rotary Club

Yes, it's true that 64,000 more meals were packed on Saturday December 5, 2009. There were 88 volunteers during the morning shift that put together approximately 30,000 meals. The afternoon shift of 53 people did even better: 34,000 meals that all went to the local Carnegie food banks. Special thanks to Andrew Clark for organizing this packing event and to Mark Brilmyer for organizing the food portion of the packing event. As you can see from the photo, Mary Lou Kientz was there as was, Adrianne Jellison, Rich Meyer, Lou Holzer, Jeff Tindall, Sue Kelly, Eileen Dombrowski, Kay Downey-Clarke, Diane Karcz (Friday), Dana Craig (1st time). Giffin Interiors provided some trucks as well.

August 29 2009. 54,000 More Meals Are Packaged!

Rick Iorio and Ed LaBruna are working "The Meal Fights Hunger" event at the Hillside Church in Carnegie on Saturday August 29th.

The Volunteer Trainer: Eileen Dombrowski

Yes, that really is Eileen Dombrowski (in the lovely hairnet) on the right. Eileen was the volunteer trainer for this event. Good Job Eileen!!

Lou Holzer: The Rice & Soy Man !!

Lou Holzer put in some serious time and work on Saturday August 29th, making sure there was plenty of rice and soy for the tables.

Dennis & Kathy Crawford.

It was great to see past Rotary District 7300 Governors, Dennis & Kathy Crawford, pitching in. A special "Thank you" to both of them for the nice McDonald's lunch break !!

Adrianne Jellison

Here's a photo of Adrianne Jellison working on one of our assembly lines and dishing out the soy.

Leigh & Wes White.

Leigh & Wes White arrived for the second shift and they did an outstanding job of putting the boxes together, helping with the rice and soy, etc.

George, Lindsay and Fred.

Photo of George Haudenshield, Lindsay Hewitt and Fred Jackson at the conclusion of another successful meal packing event.

John Mendenhall.

Yes, Virginia, that is John Mendenhall slaving away on the assembly line.

Janet Mendenhall.

Congratulations to Janet Mendenhall. The poor woman has been home from Ireland only three months and she has already outworked one-fourth of our club members this year with her second tour of duty at The Meal Fights Hunger.

DGE Cindy Sakala.

Rotary District 7300 Governor Elect, Cynthia Sakala, is shown here participating in her second "Meal Fights Hunger" campaign. Cindy is thinking of making the "Meal Project" a district-wide project in 2010-2011.