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JUNE 2021 TIOGA COUNTY COMMUNITY PRESS PAGE 9
First Annual Elks Spring Food Drive Challenge
The First Annual Elks Spring Food 24, and this year’s winner was the County, Red Door Waverly, Lock- contact the Owego Elks Lodge at 687
Drive Challenge was a huge success Owego Rotary Club. wood Food Pantry, Park Terrace -1039 or email :
collecting “in-kind” and cash dona- Thank you to everyone who con- Food Pantry, Lounsberry Food Pan- OwegoElksLodgeEvents@gmail.com
tions totaling more than $4,135 for tributed food, made monetary dona- try, Spencer Van Etten Community Pictured with the food donations
Tioga County Food Pantries. This tions, and helped organize and run Food Cupboard, Project Neighbor- collected during the 2021 Spring
year’s challenge included teams from this year’s drive. hood of Newark Valley, and Helping Food Drive Challenge are from left
the Owego Elks Lodge 1039, the The food and monetary donations Hands Food Pantry - Berkshire. to right Betsey Bulshwiet, Carolyn
Owego Rotary Club, the Owego were divided equally to the following This is planned to be an annual Wright, Abbey Hendrickson, Jane
Moose, and Tioga Opportunities. food pantries: Open Door Mission, event and organizations that would Woody, Tim Sayers, Orville Wright,
Food and monetary donations Tioga County Rural Ministry, Catho- like to participate in next year’s Kevin Malar, and Melissa Tourtel-
were collected from April 10 to April lic Charities of Tioga/Tompkins Spring Food Drive Challenge can lotte