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The Lake Forest Women’s Club (LFWC) presented local non-profit companies, Mercy Medical and Prodisee Pantry, with donations raised from its cookbook sales. Pictured from left are Alice Albright, LFWC first vice president, Lisa Griggs of Mercy Medical, Lura Kaufman, LFWC president, Deann Servos of Prodisee Pantry, Marty Boor, LFWC Treasurer and Cecilia Mace of Mercy Medical.

Recently the Lake Forest Women’s Club (LFWC) held its holiday luncheon and presented donations to Mercy Medical and Prodisee Pantry. The donated funds came from proceeds of Chefs of Lake Forest, a cookbook authored by club members. Both organizations had an opportunity to share its mission with the members and enjoy the luncheon.

In its thirty-first year, LFWC has been promoting social interest and good will in our community.

“We think of Mercy Medical as one of our main charities and were so proud to contribute funds from our cookbook to this wonderful organization. Women Helping Women, part of Prodisee Pantry, is another one of our important charities and we were also proud to support Prodisee Pantry as well,” said Lura Kauffman, a semi-retired oncology nurse and president of LFWC.
Each organization was given a $300 donation. The LFWC also hand-delivered more than fifty heartwarming Christmas gift bags to the residents and patients of Mercy’s rehabilitation hospital in Daphne. Members are planning to help Mercy’s recreational therapy department with designing fabric therapy tools in 2010.

Mercy Medical has touched the lives of many generations of families in Mobile and Baldwin counties and has been a leader among healthcare providers on the Gulf Coast since 1949, when the Sisters of Mercy founded Villa Mercy in Daphne. Mercy Medical is a faith-based healthcare continuum that provides services in acute rehabilitation, skilled nursing care, long-term care, home health, hospice, assisted living, independent living, and memory care. For more information about Mercy Medical please visit www.mercymedical.com or for more information on how you can support Mercy Medical call 621-4884.

Prodisee Pantry is a faith-based community food pantry that has provided assistance to over 16,500 Baldwin County families facing hardship stemming from job loss, medical expenses, natural disasters and other crisis. For more information on Prodisee Pantry, call 626-1334.