GFWC Seward Woman’s Donates Pop Tabs to Ronald McDonald House-2022

April 04, 2022

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The members of the GFWC Seward Woman’s Club again donated over 100 pounds (111.94 pounds exactly)  of aluminum pop tabs to the Ronald McDonald House in Omaha through their state affiliation- the GFWC Nebraska Federation of Women’s Clubs.  They presented the pop tabs at their annual board meeting in Lincoln along with other GFWC Woman’s Clubs from across Nebraska.  Members of the GFWC Seward Woman’s Club personally gathered the Seward pop tabs for the Ronald McDonald House on behalf of the GFWC Seward Woman’s Club and the community of Seward.

The tabs represent a community collaboration of individuals, businesses and clubs working together to collect the aluminum pop tabs to raise funds to assist in the expenses at the Ronald Mc Donald house in Omaha.  The aluminum pop tabs are sold for their aluminum to assist the Ronald McDonald Home.  The pop tabs are sold and the sales generated have traditionally funded the utility bills of the Ronald Mc Donald house in Omaha. The Omaha Ronald Mc Donald house has one of the most successful pop tab collection campaigns in the nation!

This year students from Seward High organized the collected tabs for the GFWC Seward Woman’s Club and boxed them to be delivered by the club members.

Major donors to the annual campaign include the students at St. John Lutheran School, the SHS FCCLA, the Seward VFW Club, Funshine Preschool in Seward and many of the restaurants of Seward-plus the many, many individuals, classrooms and businesses that donate their pop tabs to the club’s campaign efforts-donated from across the USA.  Collectively, the pop tabs do “make a difference” to the budget of the Ronald McDonald House and also assists with the recycling efforts.

To donate pop tabs, contact the Jean Kolterman, 1059 Plainview, Seward, 402-643-3803 or email her at dk05811@windstream.net or deliver them to their club home at the Seward Civic Center, where they are collected and transferred to Omaha. 

Photo: SHS students sorted, bagged and boxed the pop tabs for the GFWC Seward Woman’s Club.  They gathered and weighed the pop tabs before preparing them for the State Convention collection.  L-R The SHS students included Nixon Seegebarth, Lizzie Peetz and Libby Kratochvil-with Carson Core supervising their efforts.  They worked on the tabs in part of their community service day “The Bluejay Way.”