packing for the weekend

School staff donate ‘Cookies for a Cause’ to Packing for the Weekend recipients

Dec 24, 2025

Lake City Public Schools teachers and staff once again provided home baked Christmas cookies and bags of Chex snacks for the families enrolled in the Packing for the Weekend food program. The 34 plates of cookies and snacks were delivered with the regular food delivery on Dec. 12. This is the...

Packing for the Weekend receives $10,000 challenge grant for third year

Dec 10, 2025

The Greater Lake City Community Foundation recently presented a $10,000 check to support the Lake City Packing for the Weekend Program. This is the third year of a challenge grant from an anonymous donor through the donor’s Donor-Advised Fund. Donor-Advised Funds allow a donor to make a...

St. Mark’s donates $2,000 to Packing for the Weekend

Dec 3, 2025

We are fortunate to have an organization in Lake City that provides weekly assistance to our families. This organization is Packing for the Weekend, a service that exists in communities throughout the United States. We are fortunate that this program exists here in Lake City. The group is...

Bethany Lutheran donates fundraiser proceeds

Nov 5, 2025

Bethany Lutheran Church announced the recipients of funds raised at two fundraiser events. “Bethany Lutheran Church would like to thank our members and neighbors for attending our Block Party and our fall Garage Sale. We were able to donate $500 each to the Local Food Shelf, Packing for the...

St. Mary’s women’s group donates $1,500 to Packing for the Weekend

Oct 29, 2025

The CCW of St. Mary of the Lake Catholic Church has donated $1,500 to the Packing for the Weekend program for Lake City School students. Making the donation on behalf of the church’s women’s group is Kelly Haeska, Linda Harvey, Anne Beckman and Anne Nibbe. Accepting the donation on behalf of...

Legion, auxiliary donate $2,000 to Packing for the Weekend program

Oct 1, 2025

Joyce Moechnig (right) treasurer of American Legion Auxiliary, presents a $2,000 donation to Al and Gay Thompson, representing Packing for the Weekend. Also present from left to right are Bill Otto, commander of Post 110 American Legion; Ray Niemczyk, financial...

Packing for the Weekend meets $10,000 challenge grant goal

Nov 6, 2024

A $10,000 challenge grant, initiated in 2023, by an anonymous donor to the Greater Lake City Community Foundation, for the benefit of the Lake City Packing for the Weekend program, has again reached its goal of $10,000 from the community, matched by a $10,000 donation from the donor’s Donor...

Donor to match $10,000 in Packing for the Weekend - Lake City donations

Feb 7, 2024

For the second year, The Greater Lake City Community Foundation has established a Donor Advised Fund (DAF) with an anonymous donor to match donations made to Packing for the Weekend - Lake City. “Packing for the Weekend - Lake City is a local program that supplies supplemental weekend food for...

School staff make annual ‘Cookies for a Cause’ donation to Packing for the Weekend

Dec 27, 2023

Again this year, the staff of Lake City Public Schools, through their “Cookies for a Cause” program, provided Christmas cookies and other snacks for the weekend (P4W) program. They included approximately 64 dozen cookies, along with 32 bags of Chex mix and a similar number of frosted pretzels. “...

Legion Auxiliary gives to Packing for the weekend

Nov 29, 2023

Joyce Moechnig (right) presents a $250 donation to Packing for the Weekend coordinators Al (left) and Gay Thompson. This donation is on behalf of the Lake City American Legion Auxiliary. Packing for the Weekend provides free food on the weekend year-round for approximately 50 children here in Lake...