Published December 27. 2021 01:45PM
Palmerton’s Kids for the Community earned extra points with Santa this week as they donated $300 to the CACPAC food pantry located at St. John’s Lutheran Towamensing Church on Fireline Road in Palmerton.
Ken Kaiser, Chair of the CACPAC Pantry, said “we really appreciate cash donations. Government money helps us purchase nutritious food but doesn’t allow us to buy things like paper towels, soap, shampoo or laundry soap. Cash donations from the community helps to buy those things for people.”
Isabella Kistler, a 16-year-old 11th-grader at Palmerton Area High School, said she was proud to donate so that CACPAC “has more money to do the good things they do.”
Front row, from left: Carter Lesher, 6, kindergarten, St. John Neumann; Zoey Ziegler, 7, S.S. Palmer, second grade; and Kaylee Lesher, 8, St. John Neumann. Back row: Ken Kaiser, CACPAC chair; Brooklynne Winger, 14, CCTI; Fiona Winger, 16, 11th grade, Palmerton Area High School; Isabella Kistler, 16, 11th grade, Palmerton; Kori Kistler, 15, ninth grade, Palmerton; Brynn Merkel, 17, 12th grade, Palmerton; Cassidy Merkel, 13, eighth grade, Palmerton Area Junior High School. Not pictured: Joshua Merkel, 15, ninth grade, Palmerton Area High School; Jolene Papay, 6, Parkside Elementary School, and Hannah Papay, 9, third grade, S.S. Palmer. BETH RITTER-GUTH/SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEWS