Attention Canton ROTARIANS….We need your help to raise $1,500 to fill 1,000 Backpacks with food for Canton City School Kids who are in severe poverty and are food insecure.
 
To help get this NEW opportunity rrrrrunning, fellow Rotarians, Suzette Matthews and Denny Fuhlmer, are dedicating their Canton, Ohio Pro Football Hall of Fame Half Marathon (13.1 miles each) Runs on Sunday, April 30, 2017, to help gain your support to feed the kids. This is our 2017 RUN, RUN-RAISER to raise funds for a worthy cause in Canton, Ohio, and Suzette and Dennis are doing the running for us!
 
As you may remember last spring, our Canton Rotary 2016 RUN, RUN-RAISER raised and donated $1,300 to the RED CROSS to help purchase and install 95 SMOKE ALARMS to save lives in our community. Thank you Rotarians, your support made all the difference to those less fortunate who now have smoke alarms in their homes. It was made possible because of your kindness and donations and the dedicated efforts of our local RED CROSS, a BIG thank you to all who participated!     
 
With this year’s NEW Canton Rotary Feed The Kids BACKPACK PROGRAM, backpacks will be filled with non-perishable items and given to kids to take home over the weekend (when they aren’t in school) so they don’t go hungry.
 
Here’s how your money works to feed our local kids in need:
$50 fills 33 backpacks for 33 kids for a weekend’s worth of food
$20 fills 13 backpacks for 13 kids for a weekend’s worth of food
$10 fills 6+ backpacks for 6 kids for a weekend’s worth of food
There are so, so, so many kids who are food insecure and need our support. Please know how much we appreciate all donations of any amount.
 
Here’s the “scoop” on how you can be part of this great worthwhile cause:  
Simply bring your cash donation to the Canton Rotary meeting on Friday, April 28, 2017 and our BACKPACK PROGRAM SCOOPERS will “scoop it up” in our yellow Canton Rotary scoops! It’s that easy.
If you are unable to make the meeting, you can drop off your donation to the Rotary office or give it to a fellow Rotarian to bring to the meeting for you.  
 
Thank you ROTARIANS for your compassion and your generosity to help us meet our GOAL of raising $1,500 to FILL 1,000 BACKPACKS for Canton City School Kids in need! We appreciate your support and donations and look forward to seeing you Friday, April 28, 2017.