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Omaha Branch Supports Lions Club’s Colorado Peach Sales Fundraiser To Help Local Communities

Aug. 21 2017 Miscellaneous By Mid-States Utility

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Josh Blenderman helps move boxes with peaches to a Mid-States reefer to keep the fruit refrigerated until all orders are collected. The Lions Club pre-sold 800 boxes this year, the most since Mid-States Utility got involved over 10 years ago!

Our Omaha location welcomed their local Lions Club on Friday August 18th to support the remarkable fundraising efforts of the organization with the sales of Colorado peaches. The Lions Club International is the world’s largest service club organization, working hard to meet the needs of local communities all around the world every day. Founded in 1917, the Club is best known for fighting blindness but its members also volunteer for many different types of community projects including caring for the environment, feeding the hungry and aiding seniors and the disabled. Their community projects often support local children and schools through scholarships, recreation and mentoring. Internationally, the Club offer many programs, including youth camps and exchanges. Over the years the Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) has awarded more than US$700 million in grants to support Lions humanitarian projects around the world.

Mid-States Utility Trailer Sales have worked with the Lions Club for over 10 years now.  We make refrigerated trailers available and when peaches arrive, our warehouse technicians move them inside our trailers and keep the fruit refrigerated until all pre-ordered boxes are collected.

Dave Emry, the Chair of the Colorado Peach Sales project in Omaha, and a board member of the West Lions Club in Omaha, says: “We have 3 clubs in Omaha – the Millard Lions Club, the Noon Lions Club and the Omaha West Side Lions Club. The clubs raise funds for the Nebraska Lions Foundation which provides financial assistance for community projects such as free eye screening for children, free hearing sets for the deaf and hard of hearing or individual assistance programs.” “We have received orders for over 800 boxes of fruit this year. We really could not do this without the help of Mid-States Utility and their staff.”

Zach Fritz, the Service Advisor and Warranty Coordinator at our Omaha location said: “Each year we look forward to having the Lions Club here with us to help move, store and refrigerate their fruit. The club works very hard to support our local community. We have a strong relationship and will continue providing support in every way we can now and in the years ahead.”

For more information about the Lions Club, go to www.lionsclub.org
For more information about the Lions Club Foundation, go to www.md38.com