2010 Fremont Community Holiday Food Drive

The Fremont Area Chamber of Commerce and Town of Fremont sponsored a Holiday Food Drive to benefit the Fremont Community Food Pantry located at
the Fremont Community Church. Food donations were dropped off from December 1st, 2010 through December 10th, 2010 at the following Fremont locations:

Fremont Fire Station
Fremont Moose Lodge
Fremont Town Hall
Rickles Pickles
Fremont American Legion
Fremont Public Library

Thank you to the businesses that helped collect donations and to all who donated food items. The picture shows Ruth Chupp and Carolyn Smith of the Food Pantry plus Lori Masters of the Fremont Area Chamber of Commerce with the donated food items. A check was also presented to the Food Pantry for $500.00 from the Fremont American Legion Auxiliary and the Fremont Chamber of Commerce. These funds came from the proceeds of the Chili Cook-off held in November at the American Legion.

Special thanks to the employees and management of New Horizons Baking Company in Fremont for their large donation of food items for the Food Drive. Your generosity and support is appreciated.

Thank you to all for your support of the Fremont community during this Holiday Season.

 

 

Fremont Boomerang Backpack

The Fremont Area Chamber of Commerce made a $1,000.00 donation the Fremont Boomerang Backpack Steering Committee on January 19, 2010.  Linda Fulton, Chamber President, presents the check to Mary Sacquitne, Chris Phillips, Angel Frain, Joy Thompson, Steering Committee representatives and Ben Stuckey, FIST representative at Fremont High School.

The Boomerang Backpack program is designed to help supplement students’ food needs on weekends. The program provides students on free/reduced lunch with a backpack filled with healthy snacks to take home and eat over the weekend to deal with hunger. It also works to help students gain an understanding of helping others and philanthropy. High School students work as job coaches with the special needs students being shown that philanthropy is truly rewarding and can be for their entire life. It is hoped that the program will increase attendance rates on backpack distribution days and improve achievement from students on Mondays. The Fremont Area Chamber of Commerce made a $1,000.00 donation the Fremont Boomerang Backpack Steering Committee on January 19, 2010.  Linda Fulton, Chamber President, presented the check to Mary Sacquitne, Chris Phillips, Angel Frain, Joy Thompson, Steering Committee representatives and Ben Stuckey, FIST representative at Fremont High School.

 

September 17, 2010

The Fremont Area Chamber of Commerce made another donation to the Fremont Boomerang Backpack Program in the amount of $500.00. The funds were the result of a raffle of a motorized kids vehicle given away at Music Fest 2010 and the fund from the 2010 Chamber Golf Outing. The vehicle was donated by Perego. Thank you to all Chamber members and supporters for helping with this effort.

The Fremont American Legion Auxiliary will hold a benefit breakfast on Saturday, October 16th, 2010 from 7 am to 10 am. The proceeds will go to the Fremont Boomerang Backpack program and all are invited and encouraged to attend.

 

Linda Fulton, President Fremont Chamber of Commerce 2010
Chris Snyder, Fremont Town Manager
www.fremontchamber.org