Ridge View Builders Club presents ‘Coins for the Closet’

    DEXTER — Each year, the Ridge View Community School Builders Club collects “Coins for the Closet” in an effort to help feed needy people in our community. This year, the club presented a check for $1,000 to the Dexter Area Food Closet. Food closet representative Dick Gilbert accepted the donation saying, “at nineteen cents a pound, this donation will buy a lot of food.”

COIN COLLECTORS — Ridge View Community School Builders Club Treasurer Kaylee Deering presents Dick Gilbert of the Dexter Area Food Closet with $1,000 raised through “Coins for the Closet.” Looking on are Builders Club officers Brayden Miller, Hannah Farrar (hidden) and Jasmine Woodard.

    Donations were accepted at school and from the community. The Coins for the Closet kickoff was held on Dec. 1 with members stationed at local merchants accepting donations. Kickoff participants were Hayley Rossman, Hannah Farrar, Aino Rutloff-Eastman, Jasmine Woodard, Kirsten Swimm, Isabella Adam, Logan Perkins, Nathan Richards, Samantha Bishop, Tory Asbury, Caleb Cyr, Kilee Lewis, Tiffany Ortiz, Nick Maglares, Jordan Renquist and Cloe Mountain. The fundraiser continued at school with a Hat Day in grades K-8 and a Jeans Day for staff.

    Thanks to the local merchants who allowed collections at their stores: Dexter Variety,  P & L Market, Tillson True Value, Toots Deli and Bud’s Hannaford.

    The club is always very grateful to all the generous people of the area who donate to help their neighbors.