Fund-Raisers
Celebrity Read-a-Thon
Literacy Volunteers of Lee County, Lee County’s adult literacy nonprofit agency, will celebrate International Literacy Day from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday at Barnes & Noble, 13751 Tamiami Trail, Fort Myers, with a Celebrity Read-a-Thon. Continuous five-minute readings. Free refreshments and a raffle for exceptional prizes. Admission is free and open to the public. Barnes & Noble will also hosting a book fair from 9-10 p.m. A percentage of all purchases in the store, including the cafe, will be donated to LVLC when a bookfair voucher is used. Find a copy of the brochure on LVLC’s Web site at: www.leeadultliteray.com.
Tender Loving Care Homes for Children golf outing
The 14th annual Tender Loving Care Homes for Children golf outing will be held Sept. 25 at Heritage Palm, 10420 Washington Palm Way, Fort Myers, with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start.
Lunch, goodie bags $10,000 prize for a hole in one and an auction at lunch by Woman’s Life Chapter 701. Woman’s Life Society will match the first $500 raised at the auction.
Cost is $125 to enjoy golf, lunch and all the extras. To register a team, contact Mac Moise at 985-4256.
Tender Loving Care Homes for Children is in Cape Coral.
It is a volunteer placement home for children of all ages to live due to an abusive home, parents addicted to drugs, recently homeless, babies delivered in prison or just not wanted any more, and many other reasons. Children are welcome to stay as long as they need a warm and loving home, even if it is for his/her entire childhood.
TLC is funded by only donations and fund-raising events. For information, visit: www.tlccomplex.com.
Mel’s Family Fun Day
Mel’s Family Fun Day will be held from noon-3 p.m. Saturday at Mel’s Diner on U.S. 41 to benefit the children with cancer campaign. There will be clowns, live music, face painting and ventriloquist Brenda Stelzer. For information, call 275-7850.
Tyson delivers food to families in need
On Friday, tons of food was delivered to Orange River Elementary School in Fort Myers in honor of Sarah Owen, chief executive officer of Community Cooperative Ministries Inc., being named Tyson Food’s August Hunger All-Star.
Each month, Tyson chooses one nominee to be the Hunger All-Star of the month and donates a truckload of Tyson products to their local food bank.
Hundreds of families at Orange River each received a 20-pound box of Tyson chicken products. The additional boxes were then delivered to the Harry Chapin Food Bank.
Orange River Elementary is the first school Owen launched CCMI’s backpack program for children who get little to no food each weekend.
Since 2000, Tyson Foods has donated more than 68 million pounds of protein products to more than 950 hunger-relief agencies nationwide.
Publix donates school supplies
Trucks recently left the Publix on College Parkway and U.S. 41 full, but not with food. They were filled with school supplies collected from approximately 30 various Publix locations in the area, designated for underprivileged children.
The original recipients, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Lee County, were generous enough to share the overflow of materials with Blessings in a Backpack to help the children at Tice Elementary.
Blessings in a Backpack is a program designed to feed elementary school children who qualify for the federal free and reduced meal program and may not have any or enough food on the weekends. Eighty dollars feeds a child for an entire school year. All donations go directly to the local, Tice Elementary students.
For information, call 690-4649, visit: www.blessingsinleeco.org or contact the local effort via mail at 5781 Lee Blvd., Suite 208-239, Lehigh Acres, FL 33971.