OSKALOOSA — The Oskaloosa Rotary Club is teaming up with community partners to make sure local families have tasty holiday meals to enjoy this Christmas.
The Fellowship Hall of the Central United Methodist Church of Oskaloosa looks like a grocery store. Tables piled with apples, oranges, bags of flour, canned vegetables and more dominate the room. Bags of potatoes line the wall of the hallway just outside the door. Perishables including milk, eggs, and even turkeys will be added later. It’s an abundance of riches ready to be made into holiday-worthy Christmas dinners, just as soon as the diligent members of Oskaloosa’s Rotary Club finish packing the items into various sizes of boxes and distribute them to local families in need.
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