The Elks Lodge in North Bay just helped families with disabled children or teens to be able to go shopping for groceries in a lot easier manner.
The local lodge has donated a Caroline’s Cart to the No Frill’s grocery store on Lakeshore Drive this morning.
Denis Ellingboe, the National President of the Elks Club of Canada, was on hand for today’s delivery.
Ellingboe, who hails from northwestern Alberta, says Elks Club’s are leading the cart cause across the country supplying a number of grocery stores with the helpful shopping carts.
“It provides an opportunity for mother’s who have children with disabilities and when you are shopping it’s very hard to hold a child and be able to shop at the same time but the Caroline’s Carts provide an opportunity for the child to sit in the front of the cart and a mother can go ahead and do her shopping without having to hold the baby or child at the same time so that’s why we got into it because we are just trying to help others in a less fortunate situation and that’s what Elks are all about,” said Ellingboe.
The seat in the front of the cart can seat a child or a young adult up to 250 pounds in size.
Ellingboe says he’s getting a lot of positive feedback from Elk’s Clubs who are raising money for Carline’s Carts in their communities.
“All the lodges are pretty excited about the opportunity to get involved with their local grocery store and provide a cart to help out people,” he said.
Ellingboe will be in North Bay to address Club members at a dinner tonight at the local lodge.
For more information on Caroline's Carts go here: http://www.carolinescart.com