Mahanoy City Elks Lodge donates $6,000 to food pantries

Mahanoy City Elks Lodge 695 recently donated $6,000 to Schuylkill Community Action (SCA) for food pantries located in their district in Shenandoah, Mahanoy City, and Ringtown. The money was secured from an Elks National Foundation Grant. Pictured, from left, are: Jason Schally, Food Network Director for SCA; Teresa S. McCord, Exalted Ruler; Linda A. Fetter, PER, Chairman for ENF; and Brad Dougherty, Food Network Coordinator for SCA, along with volunteers at the First United Methodist Church distribution location in Mahanoy City. The Elks National Foundation is a program that helps build stronger communities by helping youth develop lifelong skills, send students to college, meet the needs of today's veterans, support charitable work and fund projects that improve the quality of life in local communities. The Mahanoy City Lodge was able to secure a total of $9,500 in grants through the program this year.

Former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, a New York Republican who resigned from Congress following a tax fraud conviction, is paralyzed from the chest down after being thrown from a horse during a polo tournament, according to friends who are raising funds to pay for the ex-lawmaker's medical care. Grimm, 54, suffered the devastating injury in September and is now being treated at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in New Jersey, where the late actor Christopher Reeve was treated after a similar equestrian accident in 1995, according to Vincent Ignizio, a friend of Grimm's who is a former New York City Council member. "It was a passion of his and he suffered a tragic accident at the end of September," said Ignizio, who has set up a GoFundMe account to pay for Grimm's medical care.

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