The Rotary Club of Lake Conroe is one of those “dynamo-clubs” with lots of service projects to help the community. Members of this Club save toilet paper cardboard rolls all year for a special Project to help orphanages in Mexico. Those poor children are lucky they have a roof over their heads and meals, but that is about it for these orphans.
These orphans do not have any opportunities to experience the joys and presents of the Christmas season, except the Rotary Club of Lake Conroe is changing that concept. For years, the Rotary Club of Lake Conroe has gathered those cardboard toilet paper rolls, hard candy, wrapping paper, and tape to fashion a “Christmas Tube of Candy” to provide those orphans. Several thousand candy rolls were prepared in festive Christmas paper and filled with hard candies for those orphans to enjoy at Christmas.
This year, the candy roll quantities were prepared by Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Lake Conroe and the Rotary Club of Conroe. Both Clubs gathered at 11:30 in the back room of Amore’s Restaurant on S. H. 105 on the shores of Lake Conroe for lunch, fellowship, and assembling thousands of candy rolls. Old acquaintances were renewed among the Rotarians of these two Clubs. I am unsure who benefitted the most from this back room operation, being either the orphans in Mexico or the members of both Rotary Clubs. Those orphans will benefit from the fun generated in Amore’s back room!
The Thanksgiving Celebration will be here soon. We have so much to be thankful for. We have had a bountiful harvest of food and income along with friends to help make this giving of thanks so meaningful. Each year, the Salvation Army hosts a Thanksgiving Feast for those who did not reap as much. Rotarian and Salvation Army Lieutenant Cody Johns is preparing for a traditional feast of turkey, spiral-cut hams along with all of the trimmings. He is especially thankful to the anonymous donors organized by former Mayor Web Melder who provided in excess of 100 hams for this feast.
Preparations start on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving with cooking the foods at their large commercial kitchen at 304 Avenue E in Conroe. Volunteers are needed to help assemble the Thanksgiving Meal Boxes consisting of turkey, ham, dressing, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, and pie. These boxes are provided to all who need these meals. There will be drive thru lines and a large tent set up for those who wish to eat their meal at the site. I gave out meals one year to an elderly bicyclist who asked for nine meals. He draped the plastic bags of the meals on his handlebars as he peddled away. I was told those meals were for him since he had no other food source. I enjoy preparing those meals, handing them out, and sitting with those who dine to hear their stories. If you want to volunteer to help with Thanksgiving, please call the Salvation Army at (936) 760-2440. I hope I see you and your family members there with other Rotarians in our community to serve the needs of people in our community.
The Rotary Club of Conroe meets Tuesdays at noon at Honor Cafe in downtown Conroe.
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