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Donation pool helps fill Pelham Cares shelves BY SARAH MURRELL VOICE Staff When Courtney VanGeest read in The Voice that Pelham Cares was in need, she responded by making a donation to the local food bank. She also organized a food drive at the Pelham Pool, where her children Isabel, 4, and Grayson, 8, are enrolled in swimming lessons. VanGeest explains at holidays and throughout the school year children are encouraged to think of others and donate to various organizations, but felt learning to think of others should touch every aspect of life. “It should happen in all you do, not just organized events,” she says. The pool is such a high
traffic area, as families file in and out for swim lessons and public swimming, VanGeest said she thought it would be a great opportunity to collect food for Pelham Cares and for kids to know they can give in all they do, not just at school. Grayson, she added, is beginning to understand what giving means and wants to do things to make a difference. “Good,” was all Grayson would say about the pile of food filling a kiddie pool inside the pool house, acknowledging it feels good to have helped Pelham Cares. “No one should ever feel alone,” says VanGeest on why she teachers her kids the importance of giving to the community. “It means a lot,” says Pelham Cares president
Jane Gilmour on the summer food drive. T r a d i t i o n a l l y Thanksgiving and Christmas bring large donations of food but throughout the summer the shelves can get a little bare. Gilmour also said it is nice to see the families who donated responded to the organization’s list of most needed items. “We’re very grateful to the generosity of the community,” she said, “ and the neat ideas people come up with.” Because of the VanGeest’s initiative and the response by pool users, Gilmour says Pelham Cares volunteers were able to deliver the regular Friday deliveries, noting there were some items the were right out
SWIMMERS Grayson and Isabel VanGeest helped organize a food drive at the Pelham Pool and, with lifeguard Andrea Mannell, presented the collection to Jane Gilmour, president of Pelham Cares. Sarah Murrell/Voice Photo of but the donations have filled the shelves back up. While the food donations are all on Pelham Cares’ most needed list, Gilmour says they still have a need for any kind of potatoes, canned or boxed, as well RACHEL Austin, 11, of Crystal Beach was the Market Bucks winner on July 26 and spent the whole week preparing her shopping list. When she got back to Market on Aug. 2 her first stop was at the Juice King where she bought some white grape juice from Bev Yungblut with her $40 in market bucks. Sarah Murrell/Voice Photo
as canned fruit. Andrea Mannell, a lifeguard at the pool, says the response to the food drive was terrific. Kids would bring in grocery bags, said Mannell, and it was obvious they
had shopped directly from Pelham Cares’ list. “It was really cute,” she said, adding it was nice to see the families shopping specifically for the donation together.
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