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Interact Club Hosts Community Mobile Food Pantry
Interact Club, a subgroup of the Rotary Club of Lake in the Hills, has coordinated a mobile food pantry as its first community service project.
The Lake in the Hills Interact Club only recently formed, but the group already is fast at work organizing a community mobile food pantry to help financially-strapped families.
The Community Mobile Food Pantry opens from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, at the .
The Northern Illinois Food Bank will deliver the food.
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As a subgroup of the Rotary Club of Lake in the Hills, Interact is a community-based group comprised of students from Crystal Lake South High School, Huntley High School, Marian Central Catholic School and Jacobs High School, said LITH Rotary Board President James Wales.
“This group has been in the formation stage for a couple months now,” said Wales, also director of police and public safety for LITH. “Its goal is to do community service work. The mobile food pantry is the group’s first project.”
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Wales said anyone who needs food is welcome to attend the event.
The Interact Club is open to all teens age 12 to 18 years old.
According to the Rotary Club website, Interact has 200,000 youth members throughout 10,000 Rotary clubs in 109 countries and geographical areas. The clubs are self-supporting and self-governing, but receive direction and financial support from the sponsoring Rotary club.
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