Letter to the Editor: Boys & Girls Club partners with many to make holidays happier

Editor:

If a body of water has no outlet, it becomes stagnant,but if the inflow is matched by the outflow, it becomes a source of freshness and life.

Just so, the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line is not a stagnant “dead sea” receiving and hoarding the generosity of the community, but a fresh and refreshing lake, into which and out of which gifts flow, enriching the lives of many in the community.

Of course, almost 200 children are enriched in after-school activities at the club daily thanks to the generosity of the community. But during the Christmas season, the club also becomes a special channel for benefiting others.

During this holiday season, the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line partnered with several businesses to provide area families with a special boost.

• The Town Pump Charitable Foundation’s 2014 Adopt-A-Family Program

• PEMCO’s 2014 Holiday Brigade Family Wish List

• Cape Air’s & Billings Depot’s Christmas Dream

These businesses gave and the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line passed on the gifts: food, clothing, toys, books, travel, household items, things we all need and often take for granted. The club is the hand that passes along the gifts.

Desmund Tutu, Nobel prize-winning Anglican archbishop in South Africa, has remarked at the odd arithmetic of giving, whereby the more we subtract by giving, the more we receive. In this arithmetic of the season, the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line, these businesses, and the whole Hi-Line community gives and receives.

Thanks to all.

Krista Solomon

Tim Brurud

Gal Simanton

Michelle Fleisch

Mary Owens

Priscilla Presness

Rich Jespersen

of the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line