A year ago, due to dwindling numbers of quilters for Sallisaw’s Senior Nutrition Center, Robert Morris thought 2024 would be the last year Sequoyah County residents could buy tickets for a drawing for a handmade quilt.
And after receiving a record $2,300 from the sale of tickets for the 2024 drawing, it seemed an appropriate ending.
But just a month or so ago, a benevolent benefactor stepped up and donated a quilt to the center for yet another fundraiser.
And Robert Morris, the do-everything goodwill ambassador for the Senior Nutrition Center, has again been making the rounds to benefit the center.
“My ticket sales are tremendous,” Morris reported at Monday’s county commissioners meeting. “I don’t sell very many tickets, but I get a lot of donations. We lack about $100 or so having our goal, with a little over two weeks to go. It looks like we’re going to make it. Anybody still interested, I’ve got tickets left to sell the next couple of weeks.”
Morris also reported that the SNC is the recipient of a donation of a pool table. He said James Riggs will remove the current pool table at the SNC, and move in the new one.
“He says it’s a tremendous, top-of-the-line table,” Morris says of Riggs. “It’ll last us the rest of our lives, probably.
“We appreciate people like that that give the seniors things like that. It won’t cost us anything.”
The Senior Nutrition Center is located at 115 W. Redwood Avenue.
