Wondering how to help your neighbors who might be having a tough time this holiday season?

There are several opportunities, including volunteering at the Lyle Good Food Pantry during food distributions every two weeks. To help out, contact Chris at 509-493-9483. 

Also, if you have extras in your pantry, food can be dropped off at the Lyle Community Center on the pantry's operating days, on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. If you drop off in the am, it will go directly out to the community.   The December dates are December 1 and 15.

The Lyle Lions

For as long as we all can remember, the Lyle Lions Club has gathered donations and put together food boxes for families in need during the holiday season.

Our local Lions continue to offer Christmas Food Boxes to community members and families in need of help to put enough on the table over the holidays, along with a turkey and trimmings for the holiday. This long-running effort fed 232 adults and 94 children in 2020 and around 245 individuals in 2019.

The high school Leadership Club is collecting donations of breakfast cereal through December 10, which will be provided to the Lions to add to the Christmas Food Boxes.. Parents are encouraged to buy an extra box or two and send along with their kids who attend Lyle School. In Dallesport, watch for the fire trucks collecting food donations on Tuesday, December 7. These donations, too, will go to the Lyle Lions program. (See the ELFF flyer below)

To make direct donations of food or money, individuals can contact Joan Titus at 509-365-2872. 

Mugs’ Giving Tree 

For the sixth year in a row, Mugs Coffee in Bingen will include Lyle families on its “Giving Tree.” Despite a fire in their original site that forced the shop to relocate in 2018, followed by a global pandemic, Mugs has determinedly continued this yearly tradition on behalf of the area’s children.

The 2021 Giving Tree located in Mugs Coffee Shop, 221 West Steuben in Bingen, has tags with information about a family, including children’s likes and sizes to help shoppers pick out great gifts.

Visitors can select one or more tags to take with them while shopping for the kids. Tags that begin with an “L” indicate they are for a Lyle family. Gifts should be wrapped and returned to Mugs, along with the original tag, by December 14, to allow time for the school to pick up and distribute the gifts to families before Winter Break begins.

For those with limited time to shop, or who may not be able to get to Bingen, here’s another way to help. Some of Lyle’s older students in particular have very specific needs. With a little financial help, they can pay for items that will help them get a job or otherwise get ahead in life. All cash gifts are carefully reviewed by Lyle School’s staff and go for very worthy uses. If you can donate cash to this fund, contact Lyle Community Schools at 509-365-2211, extension 126.