Making A Difference: Christmas Fruit Baskets

“BELLBROOK — Call it well planned, controlled chaos – that might be best way to describe what I saw at the Bellbrook Lions Club building. It took just minutes for club members and members of the Lions Auxiliary to load more than 240 fruit baskets in their cars.

In teams of two, they hit the road to make deliveries.

“This is our tribute to the widows and widowers of the Bellbrook Sugarcreek area.” Ernie Josche and his wife Jeanne have spent the last 20 years leading this basket giving program.

Jeanne described this as a bittersweet time, “we care about them, and that we wish them them some happiness during the holiday season that’s always hard.” The club started delivering to widows in 1954. That year…” Continue Reading