by Dennis Dalman
Ten members of the St. Joseph Y2K Lions gathered at the American Legion Club March 24 and filled 61 Easter baskets that were given to people in need.
It was just one of the many Y2K Lions good-deeds projects done throughout every year by the Lions.
Lions member Beth Leither told the Newsleaders some of the Easter baskets were given to the St. Joseph Community Food Shelf where they were distributed to clients’ children under the age of 17. The other baskets were delivered to special-needs people in the St. Joseph area.
Individuals, businesses and local organizations contributed money or items to fill the Easter baskets – items that included candy, snack cakes, potato chips, apples, oranges, coloring books and personal-comfort-hygiene items such as toothbrushes and toothpaste.
The first Easter Basket Project started in 1984, Leither noted. At that time, the Lions’ women’s club was known as the St. Joseph Lionesses. Just before the year 2000 began, they changed their name to Y2K Lions – Y2K standing for “Year 2000.”
Those who participated in the Y2K Easter Basket Project are (front row, left to right) Sandy Stocker, Sr. Thomasette Scheeler (Order of St. Benedict) and Beth Leither; (back row) Ginger Meier, Becky Staneart, Beth Sueker, Kathy Schmidt, Bernie Heurung, Kay Lemke and Caroline Linz.
