Tooele residents assist Ibapah Goshute Tribe food pantry in need

Volunteers and club members delivering the donated food for the Ibapah Goshute Tribe food pantry.

When Dennis and Rosemary Hullinger, members of the Tooele Valley Rotary Club and active with the rotary club’s statewide Native American Initiative, learned that the Ibapah Goshute Tribe food pantry was in desperate need of food and were down to just a couple cases of tomato paste, the answer was simple as to what had to be done, a food drive. But they had to act fast.

Lorina Bishop, another member of the rotary club and employee of the Leavitt Insurances of the Rockies, contacted the owner of the insurance agency in hopes they’d be willing to help. Not only did the owner immediately jump on board with the initiative, they became the corporate sponsor and partnered with not only the Tooele V