Carry On Bags
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!
The Fairfield Lion's Club and others (even a princess) helped Carry On Bags fill close to 400 bags this afternoon! The bags of food for preschool through high school students were filled in record time! Thanks to all who assisted Carry On Bags complete their mission. Your help is greatly appreciated! October 27, 2025
We are very grateful for the wonderful help we received this afternoon from FHS Student Council! Additional help came from friends of Carry On Bags! They filled 350 bags to be delivered to local schools this week and next. Thank you one and all!
October 13, 2025.
Thank you Girl Scout Troop 2269! This group of volunteers came and filled 400 bags of food this afternoon in a very short time! They did a great job and we are very thankful for their hard work!
September 29, 2025.
Thank You Farm Credit Services of America!
Carry On Bags would like to thank Farm Credit Services of America for the generous grant recently awarded to our nonprofit. It is charitable donations like these, and the numerous individual donations we receive that enable Carry On Bags to help reduce food insecurity in Jefferson County.
Farm Credit Services of America
is a mission-driven, customer-owned financial cooperative dedicated to serving rural America.
Serving rural America means more than financing those who farm and ranch.
Our community involvement program focuses on ag education, hunger relief, rural disaster relief, and rural health services. We support these initiatives through employee volunteering, financial contributions and grants.
Word of Life Lutheran Church in Fairfield were the first volunteers, of the 2025/2026 school year, to help us fill bags. We filled a little over 400 hundred bags to be delivered over the next two weeks to schools in Jefferson County. We appreciate their hard work in the high temperatures of this warm September day. Thank you Word of Life!
September 15, 2025.
Carry On Bags would like to thank the Greater Jefferson County Foundation for the generous grant awarded to our nonprofit at the awards ceremony Tuesday August 26, 2025. Our Vice President, Kevin Heston was present to receive the grant (second from left). Thank you Greater Jefferson County Foundation!
Picture from Southeast Iowa Union.
Carry On Bags would like to thank Vaju Moorthy and the MA Center Iowa in Fairfield for the benefit luncheon they hosted to raise money for Carry On Bags! They prepared and served a delicious North Indian meal on Friday, July 18th at Phoenix Rising Hall. We also thank all those who have helped support Carry On Bags by their attendance and donations! There was good food and fellowship with an all around desire to support the children of our community. Much thanks to all involved!
The MA Center Iowa has more benefit luncheons planned. If interested, you can find more information about their organization and their upcoming meals at:
na.amma.org sgiglia@gmail.com
Fairfield Kiwanis Builders Club set a new record time for filling 313 bags this afternoon. We don't have the exact time but it was around 15 minutes! Thank you Builder's Club, you were amazing! We hope to see you back again next year! May 12, 2025.
A fantastic group from St. Mary Catholic Church helped us fill weekend bags for children in the Fairfield schools this afternoon. They worked quickly to fill 347 bags for delivery this week and next! Thanks for your help! April 28, 2025.
Fairfield First Baptist Church was our volunteer group that helped fill bags today. They, along with two additional volunteers, filled over 300 bags! We are blessed to have such great help! Thank you, friends! April 14, 2025
Libertyville Church of the Brethren came to help us fill bags this afternoon! They filled 343 bags in a very short time!! These bags will be delivered to local schools over the next two weeks. Thank you friends for the wonderful help! March 31, 2025
We had some excellent help this afternoon from the Fairfield Lions Club! They quickly filled two weeks of bags for approximately 200 kids! Thank you Lions Club! We appreciate your help and heart for kids! March 10, 2025
Fairfield High School Student Council teamed up with Cambridge Investment Research this afternoon to help us fill 362 weekend food bags for kids in Jefferson County. The bags will be delivered over the next two weeks! We thank all of you for the superb help! February 24, 2025
We had a lot of great help this afternoon when the Leading Hands 4-H Club came and helped us fill bags! Many hands make light work!! They filled 368 bags in a very short time! Thank you friends, we always appreciate your help! February 10, 2025.
Carry On Bags is truly blessed to have so many great volunteer groups! This afternoon Word of Life Lutheran Church in Fairfield came to help us fill 355 bags. They were quick and efficient. There was even some singing going on! We thank you friends, you did a super job! January 27, 2025.
We want to thank the Fairfield High School Student Council for coming over once again to help us pack bags! They braved the weather this cold winter afternoon and filled 365 bags for delivery this week and next. You did a great job as always! Thank you!
January 13, 2025
We give thanks to our December 16th volunteer group (and friend), First Christian Church of Fairfield! They came in today and helped us fill close to 400 bags of food. Thank you First Christian friends for all the ways you support the kids of Jefferson County through Carry On Bags!
This afternoon Girl Scout Troop 4086 came and helped us fill approximately 400 bags!
One hundred each? Great job girls! Thank you very much for all your help! Hope to see you again! December 2, 2024
Thank you Fairfield High School Student Council for the excellent help this afternoon! They filled exactly 376 bags in less than half an hour! We appreciate your time and energy to get the job done! November 11, 2024.
Once again we had some great help from Cambridge Investment Research, along with an additional faithful volunteer! They quickly filled 426 bags, half of which will go to the schools tomorrow and the other half next week. Thank you for the excellent help and hope to see you again! October 28, 2024.
A crew from Cambridge Investment Research, and two other volunteers, came today to help us fill bags to be delivered over the next two weeks. Many trips were made around the tables to fill close to 400 bags! Thanks so much, friends, we appreciate all your help! October 14, 2024.
Girl Scout Troop 2269 and (one Boy Scout) came to help us fill bags this afternoon.They did a terrific job at filling a little over 400 bags without slowing down! Thank you friends for all the great help! September 30, 2024.
Carry On Bags had a group from Cambridge Investment Research volunteer to help us kick off the new school year this afternoon. They helped us fill approximately 350 bags for delivery this week and next! Thanks so much Cambridge for the super help! September 16 2024.
Girl Scout Troop 4086 came to help us this afternoon! They saw a job that needed to be done and went right to work! They filled 304 bags for delivery and left with energy to spare. Thank you girls, you did a great job! May 6, 2024.
We thank our regular volunteers who show up every other week during the school year to help set up for the community volunteer groups coming just an hour later to fill the bags! Here are two of several regular volunteers. Thanks to all!
We had two groups come this afternoon to help us pack bags. One group from the FHS Student Council and the other group from Cambridge Investment Research, Inc. They were a great team, filling 300 bags in a very short time! Thank you all for the great help! April 22, 2024.
Libertyville Savings Bank was our volunteer group today! They were fast and efficient, filling all the bags we need for the next two weeks in a very short time! Thank you friends! We always enjoy having you come and help! April 8, 2024
Two groups came together this afternoon to help us fill 297 bags for delivery this week and next! Three volunteers from Libertyville Savings bank and three volunteer representatives of the FHS Student Council. We thank you all for your help and willingness to serve! Hope to see you again soon! March 25, 2024.
Cub Scout Pack 64 came to help us this afternoon. They came with a willingness to help others and a lot of energy to get the job done! They filled 298 bags in a short amount of time. Thank you Pack 64 for all the great help today! March 4, 2024.
Thank you FHS Student Council! We are always glad when you come to help! We now have 2 weeks worth of bags ready for delivery! You did a wonderful job and we look forward to seeing you again soon!
February 19, 2024
Once again we would like to thank Leading Hands 4-H Club for their super help this afternoon! I believe they broke all records for speed! They were also great at seeing where to step in with extra help since we were short on regular volunteers. Thanks again, friends!
February 5, 2024.
We had some fantastic help this afternoon preparing close to 300 bags for delivery over this week and next! Thank you Leading Hands 4-H Club!! You did a great job and we look forward to seeing you again real soon! January 22, 2024.
The FHS Student Council came to help us this afternoon and did a terrific job! They filled close to 300 bags in a very short time! We were all able to meet early and get the work done before any snow began to fall! Thank you all for the great help!
January 8, 2024.
We had some great help this afternoon when Libertyville Church of the Brethren came to fill bags! They made quick work of filling close to 300 bags that are now ready for delivery this week and next. Thank you Church of the Brethren for all your help!
December 11, 2023.
