Evergreen FS hosts a donation collection for Kentucky tornado victims

Posted on December 17, 2021
The collection event will run until Tuesday, Dec. 21 at 402 North Hershey Road in Bloomington. (Twitter/Tammie Sloup)

By Neil Doyle

BLOOMINGTON – A local agriculture cooperative is looking for donations to help the tornado victims in Mayfield, Kentucky.

Bloomington-based Evergreen FS started collecting donations this week to help those who have been impacted. The company is asking community members to help fill a semi-truck trailer with several different items.

“Primarily new clothing, bottled water, personal hygiene items, and baby items,” said Evergreen FS CEO and General Manager John Tuttle. “Kind of our understanding through our co-worker who has connections down there is they are really looking for the basic necessities right now.”

The collection event will run until Tuesday, Dec. 21 at 402 North Hershey Road in Bloomington. Donations can be dropped off weekdays from 7am-4:30pm and from noon until 3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

“This has been humbling and extremely rewarding to see how our employees have rallied and want to help people in need. And even based on the community members who have showed up so far because they heard about it through a community group or on social media. People want to help,” said Tuttle.

More information is available here.

Neil Doyle can be reached at [email protected]

Blogs

Labor Day – Expanding voting rights for all

By Mike Matejka Because of COVID, there is no Labor Day Parade this year.  It’s always a great event for our everyday workers to march proudly down the street and enjoys the festive crowd. If there had been a parade, this year’s Labor Day theme was to be “150 years of struggle: your right to vote.” …

Is federal mobilization the answer?

By Mike Matejka As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal marshals into Chicago, over the objections of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, recall another Illinois Governor who protested the incursion of armed federal personnel into the city.   Those federal troops, rather than calming, escalated the situation, leading to deaths and violence. Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay…

In these troubled times, to my fellow white Americans

By Mike Matejka Our nation is at a unique watershed in human relations. African-Americans have been killed too many times in the past before George Floyd, but the response to this man’s death is international and all-encompassing. I was a grade-schooler during the Civil Rights 1960s. I watched Birmingham demonstrators hosed and the Selma – Montgomery…

Workers’ Memorial Day – Remember those whose job took their life

Looking around our community, when we say employer, most will respond to State Farm, Country, or Illinois State University.   We too often forget those who are building our roads, serving our food, or our public employees. COVID-19 has made us more aware of the risk.  Going to work every day for some people means…