The Four Leaf Clovers 4-H Club, along with the help of Curley and Rita Denning, of Whitefish, have once again collected an extraordinary amount of aluminum pull tabs for the Ronald McDonald House in Billings.

    Pictured from the left are Curley and Rita Denning, along with Colt Harris and Ruby and Glen Bouma, with the 342,720 tabs the Dennings brought over from the Whitefish Moose Lodge #642 Thursday evening and JD’s Wildlife Sanctuary in Bynum. These will be added to the 320,047 collected locally by the Clovers from Ray Denny, Darlene Matheson (49,536), Ed’s Tavern, the Hi-Way, the Keg, Branding Iron and local Moose Lodge for a total of 712,303 tabs, with more to come.

    Last year the 4-H Club collected 502,176 tabs, pushing their total to 1,214,479 for the two years.

    By the way, the tabs weigh in at 507.4 pounds. The tabs will be taken to a 10-unit Ronald McDonald House where they will be recycled.

    Ronald McDonald houses provide a place to stay for parents of children receiving medical treatment, a home away from home.