Jayme O’Neill is a policyholder of a life policy since she was a baby. She is my niece . She goes to Kenston High School and will be a Senior she is 17 years old. She plays soccer for Kenston and a travel team that will go to Florida in July for the National title. Her sister Mary also a policyholder and winner of UTUIA scholarship have been in 4-H for years. This is her third year heading up the food drive prior to that Mary was in charge. Look at the letter it really tells it all. Lodge 1 and UTUIA 
Have also participated by donating money. I have contributed good money and helped st the church the bank. I have also taken items to the Geauga Food bank with my sister Heidi.    

Sincerely, Marilyn Spangler 

Jayme O’Neill has a life policy with UTUIA. She is also a member of Lodge 1 in North Olmsted. Her 4-H group for years collects food for Geauga Hunger Task Force along with money. They have a Dr Augustine Kellis that will match up to $25000.00 a year to what the Green Fields 4-H Food Drive raises. Last year donations totaled over $35,000. He pays $1.00 for each $1.00 raised and 50 cents on each food item. Last year and other years the kids put boxes out everywhere in the neighborhood. This year because of the COVID-19 virus there was a lot of thing they couldn’t do. So in June Jayme her sister Mary and her Mom Heidi went on their neighborhood app and put an email out. They asked the neighbors if they could leave food on their porch on a certain Saturday. The three of them went up and down developments collecting food and money. They had a great response. They also wrote letters and called businesses to donate money. UTUIA Lodge 1 donated $100.00 and UTUIA matched it. Now that $200.00 turns into $400.00. Then on Friday last week First National Bank let them use their parking lot to collect food and money. It was a busy intersection so when the light changed the kids could go up to the cars. They collected over $500.00 and 500 items that day. Jayme and 2 other teenagers from Greener fields food drive helped. Also, one of the advisers from 4-H along with Heidi O’Neill and Marilyn Spangler both members of Lodge 1.Jayme also collected food from her soccer team and some of the coaches and other sport players from Kenston High School The drive ends on August 20th but for a drive that didn’t look possible this year. They have to date raised $12,281.27 and 1790 items so the match of $12,281.27 and $895.00 totals $25,457.54.

On Friday Jayme, Heidi and Marilyn took the 500 items to Chagrin Falls Park Community Center one of the Pantry’s from The Hunger Task Force. They were quite happy with the collection. They did social distancing along with wearing masks. Jayme and Sam are both sophomores. Dennis was a senior. Normally more would help from 4-H but it is hard to get people together right now.