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By NATALIE JOHNSON
Last year, when the Shelton Burg-
er King participated in the Muscular
Dystrophy Association's Shamrocks
against Dystrophy program, in which
the store sells one-dollar paper sham-
rocks, they raised $3,000 to send sev-
eral kids with muscular diseases to
summer camp.
One of those kids is Kayleigh Lor-
mor, a six-year-old kindergartener
from Rochester, who has spinal mus-
cular atrophy. The disease keeps her
on a ventilator in a wheelchair, and is
so severe, her doctors predicted that
she wouldn't make it past her second
birthday.
But this August, Kayleigh is going
to summer camp for the very first time.
"I'm really excited," she said.
Her mother, Cyndi Lormor, thinks
that Kayleigh may be just a little ner-
vous too, and is a little nervous herself,
since it will be the first time Kayleigh
has ever been away from her.
Programs like MDA's Shamrocks
help keep the Lormor family going,
Cyndi Lormor said.
The Shelton Burger King started
this year's Shamrocks Against Dys-
trophy program on February 15, said
store manager Dena Faught.
"Last year we raised about $3,000
for the MDA and we were really excit-
ed about that," she said. "That was our
goal, we were really excited to send
some kids to camp.
This year, Faught said the store's
goal is to raise $4,000.
"I think we're at approximately 100
to 130 a day so far," she said.
For a girl who can't eat on her own,
and needs the help of several adults to
go down a playground slide once, going
to camp is a huge accomplishment for
Kayleigh, Cyndi Lormor said.
"Anything that normal kids do takes
her 10 times longer," she said. "I look
at her life and I wonder "How does she
do it?" Well for one thing she knows no
different, but it's a matter of the way
that we teach her that just because
you're different doesn't mean you can't
do something."
She said that while her daughter
goes to kindergarten twice a week,
and is well above her peers in several
subjects, she is starting to understand
that she isn't capable of running and
playing like most students do.
"The one thing that's so amazing
about summer camp is it's the one time
of year that these kids are normal,
they're not sitting on the side watch-
ing all the other kids run, they're do-
ing races in their wheel chairs," Cyndi
Lormor said. "Everything is designed
for the kids in their chairs."
Cyndi and Dean Lormor credit the
MDA for saving their daughter's life,
and say they are grateful for the help
of communities like Shelton, filled
with people who will buy a shamrock
for a little girl they may never meet.
"We got involved with the MDA
program when we got her diagnosis of
SMA ... they gave us information on
a drug trial program that they were
involved in. Until tl~n, that was the
only hope that we had," she said. "We
don't have time as a family to go out
and try to raise money ourselves, her
care is 24/7."
The Shelton Burger King will be
selling shamrocks to raise money for
kids like Kayleigh until March 17.
Kayleigh Lormor, center, sitting with Dena
Faught, left, manager of the Shelton Burger
King, dad Dean, little brother Ryan and morn
Cyndi, will be going to summer camp in August
because of donations from Shelton residents.
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Courtesy photo
Officers and co-managers recently elected to Board of Directors. From left standing,
Barbara Hinck, president, Mike Samuel and Steve Russell, co-managers and Billie How-
ard, vice-president. Seated from left, Charlene Wilson, secretary and Susan Roettjer,
treasurer.
The Saint's Pantry is in its 30th
year of operation. It began as an
emergency food bank serving 30
to 50 families a week in 1982. St.
Edward's Catholic Church and
St. David's Episcopal Church in
partnership, operated out of a
closet at St. David's. Since that
time, the pantry has grown, now
serving 13,471 families in 2010.
This represents 55,075 individu-
als receiving 557,731 pounds of
food. The food bank is operated
by volunteers and several Shelton
churches now support it.
With the need for expanded
service, space and food storage,
the food bank, now located at 214
South Second Street in downtown
Shelton found the need to restruc-
ture its operation.
Steve Helt, who has been the
director for 12 years, is turning
the pantry over to operation man-
agers Mike Samuel and Steve
Russell. Samuel and Russell will
see to the day-to-day operation
and Helt will serve in an advi-
sory capacity for the interim. The
nine-member board of directors
oversees the operation of the pan-
try.
With the continued donations
of food and money from local indi-
viduals, churches, businesses and
the ongoing support of Northwest
Harvest and others, The Saint's
Pantry will continue to serve the
needy of the Shelton community.
Habitat for Hum nity
ives $5,600 grant
Habitat for Humanity of Ma-
son County received a $5,600
grant from the Marco J. Heidner
Fund through the Communi-
ty Foundation of South Puget
Sound. The grant will provide
funds to recruit, train and deploy
the volunteers needed to meet
the increased low-income hous-
ing needs of the community.
"One of our greatest chal-
lenges is that we are volunteer
limited," said Tammey New-
ton, executive director. Habitat
homes are built with volunteer
construction crews from the
ground up. Volunteers also over-
see the "A Brush with Kindness"
program, assist in running the
Habitat stores, serve on com-
mittees and give a helping hand
at special events and at the of-
rice. Last year, 107 volunteers
donated 4,883 hours supporting
their local community through
Habitat for Humanity. Habitat
notes that this year they need
to increase their volunteer base
significantly to keep pace with
incoming requests.
Recognizing volunteers for
their many contributions is im-
portant. "Happy volunteers who
are having fun keep coming
back," stated Michele Palomino,
volunteer coordinator. "We are
excited to be able to use a por-
tion of the funds to recognize our
wonderful volunteers for their
hard work and dedication to our
mission."
'Tqithout these hometown
heroes, Habitat for Humanity
would not be cost effective," New-
ton went on to say. "If we had to
budget for a construction crew,
the homes would not be afford-
able to our partner homeown-
ers." In addition, the lower the
costs, the greater the number of
families Habitat can serve each
year. The total cost for a Habitat
Home is around $90,000, which
includes land, infrastructure and
completed construction.
"Our volunteers not only cre-
ate a positive impact with the
families and homeowners they
work with, but the community
overall with improvements that
are felt throughout the entire
neighborhood," Newton said.
"Simply put, none of this would
be possible without the support
of community partners like The
Community Foundation of South
Puget Sound and the Marco J.
Heidner Fund. Whether you
want to swing a hammer or
paint, take in Store donations
or help stuff envelopes, Habitat
has many ways to volunteer. For
more information on how you can
volunteer or support Habitat for
Humanity of Mason County call
the office at 426-8134 in Shelton,
205-3250 in Belfair or visit the
website at habitatmasonwa.org.
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