The community was sad to hear the To Make A Child Smile (TMACS) Foundation decided to disban in the fall of 2022. Angier Rotarians supported TMACS for more than 10 years in their mission to take elementary aged children on a Christmas shopping trip geared to equip the children with clothes, shoes and toys/electronics through the start of the new year. Rotarians served:
- on TMACS Foundation Board which raised money via BBQ plate and raffle events,
- as chaperones during the shopping trip and
- by collecting and organizing food boxes, in collaboration with Angier Methodist church volunteers and local Boy Scouts, to be provided to each of the children’s families as the shopping day wrapped up each December.
An article was published in the Daily Record by former Board member Kim Lambert in November 2022 recounting the many blessings TMACS brought to the community and how these events brought blessings to all involved in accomplishing the mission each year.
The TMACS Board blessed Angier Rotary and several other civic and church groups by issuing checks from the Foundation funds before closing the books. The picture below shows TMACS Board Member Angie Ceroli (also a Rotarian, left) presenting the gift check to Gail Turner, Angier Rotary’s Treasurer.
This was a grand gesture exhibiting the True HEART of the TMACS Foundation continuing to serve our community! We hope in the near future a new Board will convene to restart TMACS Foundation’s mission making children and adults in our community SMILE! In the meantime, Angier Rotary will utilize the funds on community projects benefiting and improving the lives of the local children and their families!