Jay McAlister, LR Ruritan awards Lisa Dixon with the club’s “LR Ruritan of the Year.” The Lower Richland Ruritan Club honored The Threatt Family: Billy, Harriett, and Pam, with a plaque announcing them as the "Lower Richland Family of the Year Award at the September monthly meeting. Among their family projects, the family delivers useful, handmade items for a local nursing home, donates to food pantries throughout the Columbia area, donates to several church’s Christmas Child Programs, and donates holiday and mid–year items to a local mental health facility housing with over 50 residents. Lower Richland Ruritan Club also awarded the Threatt’s oldest daughter, Lisa Threatt Dixon with Lower Richland's Ruritan of the Year Award. Lisa contributed many items and time with her Threatt family but also completed over 17 LR Ruritan contributing projects in just one month. Some of these projects were working with the Family Readiness Program at McIntire Air Base, crocheting prayer shawls, collecting books for medical waiting rooms, cooking casseroles for “Caring Casseroles,” donating blood and organizing a blood drive, and donating meals for fire fighters in the Lower Richland area.
The Threatt Family accepts “LR Ruritan Family of the Year” award from their daughter, Lisa Dixon, chairperson of the Social Development Committee. (L–r) Billy, Harriett and Pam Threatt.