Sunbury Eagles gather, hand out Holiday baskets

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Mem­bers of the Fra­ter­nal Order of Eagles, Aerie 3614, a.k.a. the Sun­bury Eagles, are always ready to lend a help­ing hand, and last Sat­ur­day Eagles mem­bers gath­ered at their facil­ity at 235 North Colum­bus Street in Sun­bury to pack Christ­mas bas­kets and bags of food for fam­i­lies in need around the area.

The day began at 7:30 a.m. when Wor­thy Pres­i­dent Steve Webb and sev­eral other early-bird Eagles went to Kroger and filled three pick-up trucks with $3,000 worth of groceries.

Back at the Eagles Club, over 50 vol­un­teers had a com­ple­men­tary break­fast, then packed 30 Christ­mas bas­kets and 150 gro­cery bags of food, includ­ing hams and turkeys.

“After we loaded our trucks we headed out to hand deliver over 150 bags across the com­mu­nity, trav­el­ing to Sun­bury, John­stown, Cen­ter­burg and Cro­ton,” said Aerie 3614 mem­ber Duane Dumas. “When it was all said and done we had deliv­ered Christ­mas bas­kets and gift cards to over 30 families.”

Dumas said the Eagles would like to send a spe­cial Thank You to Kroger for prepar­ing all the food for pick up.

In addi­tion to help­ing fam­i­lies dur­ing the Christ­mas hol­i­days, in recent years the Sun­bury Eagles have donated money to the Ohio Fallen Heroes Memo­r­ial Fund, the Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety, the Big Wal­nut Edu­ca­tion Foun­da­tion, Com­mu­nity Library, the BST&G Fire Depart­ment, the Harlem Town­ship Divi­sion of Fire, the Genoa Town­ship Fire Depart­ment, the Porter-Kingston Fire Dis­trict, and the Sun­bury Police Department.

Also ben­e­fi­cia­ries of the Eagles’ gen­eros­ity have been the Big Wal­nut High School Girl’s Soc­cer Boost­ers, the Big Wal­nut High School Girls Bas­ket­ball Boost­ers, the Big Wal­nut High School Wrestling Boost­ers, the Big Wal­nut High School Cheer­lead­ing Boost­ers, the Big Wal­nut High School March­ing Band Boost­ers, and the Big Walnut/DACC FFA, to name just a few.

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