Four Paws donations
Four Paws provides pet food to needy Loudon County families through the Good Samaritan Center in Lenoir City.
Following are the totals for January:
Dog chow delivered — 80, 18.5-pound bags totaling 1,480 pounds at a cost of $757.60.
Cat chow delivered — 60, 6.3-pound bags totaling 378 pounds at a cost of $255.
Total expense for the month was $1,021.60.
Following are totals since the organization began in September 2009:
Bags of dog chow delivered — 8,379.
Pounds of dog chow delivered — 163,843.
Cost for dog chow — $76,906.94
Bags of cat chow delivered — 6,681.
Pounds of cat chow delivered — 45,333.
Cost for cat chow — $33,312.85.
Total cost of pet food — $110,219.79.
Total pounds delivered — 209,176.
Total bags delivered — 15,060.
For more information, call 865-408-0327 or email info@fourpawsfoodpantry.org.
Mailbox project raises $8K
The Tellico Village Chapter AX of the Philanthropic Educational Organization Sisterhood raised more than $8,000 in its third annual Christmas mailbox greenery project conducted in December. The funds will go toward the PEO mission of helping women seeking higher education through awards, grants, loans and scholarships.
“Chapter AX of the P.E.O. Sisterhood offers a big ‘thank-you’ to the 550 Tellico Villagers who purchased the decorative mailbox greens last month,” Carol Johnson, chapter president, said. “We had both a record number of greens installations and a record amount of money raised for women’s education.”
More than 50 chapter members and some of their husbands gathered greens and assembled and installed the decorations during a one-week period. Village resident Kay Patterson chaired the project.
Through its 250,000 members in nearly 6,000 chapters in the United States and Canada, PEO has provided more than $234 million in scholarships, grants and awards. PEO also operates Cottey College, an independent liberal arts and sciences college for women in Nevada, Mo.
