By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY
Staff Writer
The Crestline Lions Club has been collecting aluminum pull tabs for the Ronald McDonald House for several years. They are now incorporating the Valley of Enchantment Elementary School into their collection campaign.
The Ronald McDonald House provides a free place to stay for for parents of children who are in the hospital facing serious illnesses and operations.
Last week, Lions Club members delivered pull tab collection cans to each of the VOE classrooms. This collection project is being coordinated by Lion Libby Hayes. The classroom that collects the most pull tabs by April will win an ice cream party for everyone in the classroom.
The students and their families only need to save their pull tabs from soda and other aluminum cans and send them to their classroom whenever convenient; there are cans to collect them in each classroom. Lions Club members will collect the tabs from the school and then take them in April to the Ronald McDonald House in San Bernardino.
The pull tabs are used by the Ronald McDonald House as a fundraiser to help support their services to families that have their children in the hospital. The tabs are made from a higher quality aluminum than the cans themselves and can be remanufactured into syringe needles for medical use. This is beneficial for all, by recycling the metal and benefitting parents of hospitalized children who need a place to stay at the Ronald McDonald House while their kids are in the hospital.
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