A business in Jefferson recently made a donation to have those less fortunate individuals and families. 

Wild Rose Casino and Resort gave $5,000 to the Greene County Action Resource Center. The local food pantry has seen a dramatic increase in those using the food pantry as Manager Shirley Haupert says there were 73 more individuals that used the food pantry in July compared to July of 2021. 

“They’re bigger families, not just single individuals and older individuals that we normally served. A lot of them tell us, they may have a part time job that’s all they can get. They can’t make the dollar stretch far enough to feed everybody in the family.”    

Haupert is grateful for the donation and says without help from businesses like Wild Rose, their mission of providing food for less fortunate people would be tougher. Wild Rose Jefferson General Manager Travis Dvorak says when the idea came up that they should make a monetary donation to the food pantry, he was enthusiastically behind it.