Clarkston Rotary Club members and friends will be on local street corners’selling the Goodfellow edition of the Rotary newspaper to raise funds for the children of Clarkston, Friday and Saturday, Dec. 4-5.
All donations’will be spent to provide Clarkston area children with new winter boots and shoes, hats, and mittens or gloves. Clarkston Rotarians, friends of Rotary, Clarkston Lions, members of Oakland Woods Baptist Church, as well as Boy Scout Troop 199 and Cub Scout Pack 499 all volunteer.
Over 2,000 volunteer hours are needed for the project. Sign up for a two-hour shift at clarkstonrotary.org.
The Clarkston Lighthouse staff and Clarkston Community School social workers have worked to sign up children on a need basis.
Clarkston schools and local churches support the program by collecting new hat and glove donations. Oakland Woods Baptist Church provides support and use of their church on the day of the distribution,’Saturday, Dec. 13. The Clarkston Lions provide Project Kidsight, a free pre-school eye examination. The Clarkston Area Optimist Club participates with their Opti-Socks program.