10/11/2026
❤️ HELP OUR BEARS RESTOCK FEEDING TRAYS! ❤️🐻
Our bears love their feeding trays, and we go through approximately 20 trays each year! These trays are used daily throughout the year as serving bowls for the bears. They love the trays so much the not only eat out of them but also use them as recliners. We like to keep a supply of spares on hand as when they get large cracks they need to be retired. Several were recently retired and we have no more spares.
We’re inviting our wonderful supporters to consider donating a new or gently used POLY wheelbarrow tray or purchasing one locally to donate to Valley Of The Kings Sanctuary and Retreat. Every tray helps make daily animal care an enjoyable for the bears and little easier for the volunteers!
🛒 HOW YOU CAN HELP
Option 1: Order online for pickup at Menards in Vernon Hills, Illinois.
Ordering online for store pickup can help avoid shipping costs. You can designate Shirley Combes, one of our VOTK volunteers, as the pickup person.
📍 Menards – Vernon Hills
1860 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Vernon Hills, IL 60061
Item: Truper® Wheelbarrow Poly Tray – 6 cu. ft.
Model #33837 | Menards SKU #2640624
📧 Pickup assistance: [email protected]
Having trouble entering the pickup person’s information? Please forward the QR code to the email above for assistance.
Option 2: Purchase locally and deliver to VOTK.
Find a tray only at a local store and bring it directly to the sanctuary. We appreciate every effort to help!
Option 3: Donate a used tray.
Have a gently used 6 or 8 cu ft. poly wheelbarrow tray you no longer need? We’d be happy to give it a second life helping care for our bears!
⚠️ IMPORTANT: POLY PLASTIC TRAYS ONLY — NO METAL TRAYS. Plastic trays are needed for our residents’ safety.
Every donation, large or small, helps us care for the animals who depend on us. Thank you for being part of our sanctuary family and for continuing to love them forward! ❤️
🌐 www.VOTK.org
