Lioness Club donates to Boys & Girls Club, Cancer Foundation
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.
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.
Cheryl Schweizer can be reached via email at [email protected].
