On schedule: Empty Pantry foods ready for packing today
By Linda Braden Albert | (lindaba@thedailytimes.com)
Everything is on schedule for packing of Empty Pantry Fund food bags beginning at 6 p.m. today at the Tennessee Army National Guard Armory. Volunteers are invited to come to the armory to get involved in the 60-year-old tradition of neighbor helping neighbor in Blount County.
“The food came in today on four tractor-trailers,” EPF President Lon Fox said Wednesday. Everything went smoothly, and we’ll be ready.”
Delivery will begin early Sunday morning. Routes will be available today for volunteers who wish to take food and toys, provided through Junior Service League of Maryville’s Toys for Blount County, directly to those who signed up at the annual October clearinghouse.
Toys were packed earlier this week.
Fox said donations as of today are at about 56 percent of the total funds needed to pay for the foods.
“We need to keep raising money,” he said. “We’ve still got a way to go.”
He said the sheet collections, in which members of the Jaycees and JayTeens carried sheets along Saturday’s Maryville/Alcoa Jaycees Christmas Parade route to collect money for EPF, show what can happen when everyone pitches in for a good cause.
“People threw in change from their pockets, and we ended up with $991,” he said. “You don’t have to send a check for $1,000 or $500 or $250. It all adds up.”
Donations to date
Balance Forward, $50,043.63
• Jaycees Christmas Parade
•Sheet Collections, $991.12
• Jaycees 6th and 7th grade Basketball Classic Program Donations, $268
•In honor of Pauline Steele by Linda Frye, $100
•In honor of Paul Bales by Norman and Sheila, $50
•Tim Welch, $50
•In memory of William I. Baldwin and Edward E. Baldwin by Daniel Baldwin, $50
•In honor of Paul Bales by Don and Patricia Sherwood, $500
•In memory of Justin Mize, $100
•Bobbie Evans, $25
•Dan and Bernita Hackney, $50
•Powell Truan and Patsy Carol Meek, $150
•Darrell and Ann Herron, $25
•Donald and Lynette Gualandi, $25
•Betty Carper, $50
•In honor of Jim, Sandy and Tanya, $50
•Taylor and Kristi Weatherbee, $200
•Angela and Randy Winegar, $25
•Louise Tindell, $25
•In memory of our parents, Earl and Lorene Hubbs, $50
•Charles and Clara McNutt, $100
•Jack and Melba Bruce, $50
•Jean Teffeteller, $100
•Fred and Charlotte Meadows, $500
•In loving memory of Fred and Troy Belle Waggoner by Leland Waggoner, $500
•Glenna Semmer, $50
•In loving memory of our parents, Homer and Helen Baumgardner and Lloyd (Jack) and Vina Burns, by Sam and Nancy Burns, $100
•Alcoa City Schools Central Office, $148
•In memory of Galen Sr. and Hazel Johnson, Galen Johnson Jr., Lila Myers, and Jim and Joe Crowder, by the Johnson Family, $200
•Harold Keeble, $100
•Laws Chapel Primitive Baptist Church, $100
•Oliver Roberts Jr., $50
•In memory of Sonny Murrin by Ditto Murrin and Margaret Cunningham, $200
•Anonymous, $100
•In memory of Jack Patterson by Becky and Henry Hartgrove, $25
•David Hammond, $100
•In Jesus’ love by Gene and Pat Evans, $100
•Wallace and Margaret Ogle, $30
•In memory of loved ones by Wanda Jackson, $50
•In honor of Paul Bales by Roy and Norma Eblen, $50
•Sarah MacKenzie, $50
•Sandra Thomas, $100
•In memory of Tristan Keller, $25
•In memory of our parents by Paul and Nancy Greutman, $25
•In memory of my husband, $50
•Robert Shields, $30
•In memory of David E. Ford by Billie J. Ford and Family, $50
•Elizabeth and James Conway, $25
•J.P. and Nellie Hickman, $100
•Jerome and Barbara Heiny, $100
•Kenneth and Peggy Hoy, $200
•Michael and Janet Gallagher, $100
•Orman W. and Evelyn Blackwood, $40
•In memory of Homer Shumer and Gene and Ada Caylor by Jeff and Terri Caylor, $50
•In memory of Doyle and Eunice Riden by Bobbie Carpenter and Family, $50
•In memory of Joan Webb by Herbert Webb, $100
•Alfred and Jackie Bumgarner, $25
•In honor of Pat Justice, Lorene Smith and Maxine Walker, teachers of Philathea Sunday School Class, Maryville First Baptist, $100
•Judith C. Greene, $200
•Joseph and Susan Hohenadel, $25
•James and Eleanor Sikes, $50
•C.C. Thomas, $200
•Bob and Peggy Wallace, $100
•Dean and Neal Stone, $100
•In honor of Ann Smith and Sue Bell and Georgia Russell by E.E. French, $25
•Rick and Judy Brownlie, $100
•Beverly Joann Garrott, $50
•Anonymous, $100
•Francis and Norma Garner, $200
•In memory of Joseph Coning by Betty Coning, $100
•Clifford Tilson, $20
•In honor of my great-grandchildren by Mildred Byrd, $25
•Carl and Donna Barker, $100
•John and Jill Rollins, $100
•In memory of Jack Patterson from Linda Patterson Paschal and Jennifer Paschal Gottlieb (Naples, Fla.), $50
•In honor of our three grandchildren, Elizabeth, Maggie and Rachel by Steve and
•Ruth West, $300
•Sen. Doug Overbey, $125
Total — thank you, $58,670.75
