As costs soar, ShareFest Will County provides vacation cheer and help
With grocery costs skyrocketing — eggs up 37% nationwide, beef on the rise, and orange juice squeezing wallets — ShareFest Will County is stepping in to assist neighbors in want.
LOCKPORT, Sick. – With grocery costs skyrocketing — eggs up 37% nationwide, beef on the rise, and orange juice squeezing wallets — ShareFest Will County is stepping in to assist neighbors in want.
For 18 years, ShareFest has supplied meals, clothes, books, and residential items to the group. This yr, their large Christmas operation discovered a house at Lockport Township Excessive Faculty’s East Campus.
“We now have every little thing from Christmas presents to clothes for individuals who come and go to. That is all donated. After which right here within the parking zone, folks can line up and you’ve got a wide range of totally different meals stuffs that they’ll choose up. Actually simply fill their automobiles at vacation time with, you already know, primary meals provides that they actually need. So it is two totally different sides of the operation,” stated Superintendent of Lockport Township Excessive Faculty Robert McBride.
On Sunday, households from Joliet, Lockport, Homer Glen, Crest Hill, and surrounding suburbs arrived searching for help.
“We now have near 42,000 kilos of meals at this time. Inside the college, we’ve toys, we’ve brand-new garments, we’ve dwelling gadgets that may be a wide range of issues and residential gadgets from blenders to toasters to no matter and inside the college, there’s one other 20,000 kilos of meals,” stated Government Director of ShareFest Gary Cheney.
Lockport college students performed a key function, loading trunks for ready households and packing meals bins for distribution.
“Each pupil right here, Lockport Township Excessive Faculty, has to finish 40 hours of group service earlier than they graduate. So that could be a commencement requirement,” McBride stated.
With fully-stocked toy cabinets simply in time for Christmas, ShareFest aimed to bless 2,500 folks with very important assets.
“They’re doing an amazing group service. The scholars, you already know, they willingly simply come right here and work laborious. Whether or not it is, you already know, at this time an attractive day for them to be out right here. However you already know, they’re right here when it is chilly. They’ve an enormous coronary heart,” stated Imelda.
ShareFest is greater than a charity — it’s a group motion spreading the spirit of giving.
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