Since 2012, the local chapters of two international service clubs - the Whitingham-Halifax Lions and the Deerfield Valley Rotary - have been working together to bring light and joy to hundreds in the Deerfield Valley who are in need of food.
Their December 2016 “Holiday Food Basket” project proved to be their largest joint endeavor to date.
On a very snowy Dec. 17, Lions & Rotarians spread out from Halifax to Wardsboro to deliver food to more than 150 families, and visited an additional 66 individuals with cheer-up poinsettias.
This year, the Readsboro Lions also joined in and made food deliveries to more than a dozen families there. All told, the groups served 500 people.