Lioness Club donates to Boys & Girls Club, Cancer Foundation
CHERYL SCHWEIZER | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 4 years, 1 month AGO
Kim Pope (center), Executive Director of the Boys and Girls Club of the Columbia Basin, accepts a check from Lioness members Deb Graser (left) and Michele Bingham (right).
Lioness members Deb Graser (left) and Michele Bingham (right) present a donation to Angel Ledesma (center) executive director of the Columbia Basin Cancer Foundation.
Senior Reporter Cheryl Schweizer is a journalist with more than 30 years of experience serving small communities in the Pacific Northwest. She began her post-high-school education at Treasure Valley Community College and enerned her journalism degree at Oregon State University. After working for multiple publications, she has settled down at the Columbia Basin Herald and has been a staple of the newsroom for more than a decade. Schweizer’s dedication to her communities and profession has earned her the nickname “The Baroness of Bylines.” She covers a variety of beats including health, business and various municipalities. | December 7, 2020 1:00 AM
MOSES LAKE — The Lioness Club of Moses Lake donated proceeds from Spaceburger sales to two Moses Lake organizations.
Lioness member Deb Graser said fellow members gave $3,216 to the Boys & Girls Club of The Columbia Basin and $3,216 to the Columbia Basin Cancer Foundation. The money was raised during an event at the Boys & Girls Club.
“That was in one short day, because we ran out (of Spaceburgers),” Graser said.
Spaceburgers are a longtime Lioness fundraiser. They originated at the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle, and were made in a special machine. Eventually the Lioness Club bought the machine and Lioness Spaceburgers became a tradition at the Grant County Fair and a few other events.
“We sell a lot of Spaceburgers and give all the money back to the community,” Graser said.
The Lioness Clubs are a division of the Lions Club International.
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