Thanksgiving

Wishing you all a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving. This has been a trying year for many, and yet we all have much to be thankful for. Our family and friends, the loving and giving community in which we live and the ability to help others. Through our efforts and the efforts of many other service groups we have provided food for those who are in need. Something to think about when we sit down to enjoy the bounty of our own tables.

Food Drive update

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Hey everybody, just a quick update on the food drive-

Thank you to every person that manned a table these last few weekends, thanks to you along with a donation from a local orchard we were able to fill three boxes for each of our 20 families! That is a mighty amount of food and more than just a Thanksgiving meal! Phi Beta Lambda helped provide sustenance for a large portion of the Walla Walla valley's disadvantaged families!

Additionally, the monetary donations we received were substantial enough that each of these 20 families also received a $25 gift card to Harvest Foods of Walla Walla to help purchase the "perishable" items that are needed to make a Thanksgiving dinner work like a turkey or a ham.

On top of that, a local business (who wished to remain nameless) was willing to donate 5 fresh turkeys to help us with our cause. Two things came from this. First, our twenty families were so well provided with their 3 boxes of food and their gift card that these turkeys were able to be given to alternate families that were in need. Second, this wonderful nameless company cared so much about what we were doing that they provided an additional five turkeys! This made a total of ten turkeys which meant we helped ten additional families with our efforts!

This club has made a huge difference this quarter and I am proud to know the many folks in this club that have labored to make fantastic things happen for our neighbors in Walla Walla, stand proud classmates, you are making a difference in the world, making it a better tomorrow!

COOK BOOKS ARE HERE

So the cookbooks came today there are 227, rember they give extra books to make up shipping price. So if anyone wants to pick up any they can contact me through here, facebook, email me, I will be giving some to Mike tomorrow also or you can call me at 509-540-2019.

Food Drive

So it was lots of fun this morning getting boxes ready for people. I am getting ready to go shopping for last of the stuff and it was suggested that maybe getting some fresh apples would be nice so I called Davis Orchards to see if they would be willing to sell some apples at a discount rate and they told me they would call me back. They called me back and said yes they could give us apples but instead of buying them they would donate some so I went and picked them up thinking it was going to be a couple of boxes. No I picked up 13 boxes of apples and a box of pears to go the other food that we got tonight.

CHRISTMAS GIFT WRAPPING @ SHOPKO THIS COMING WEEKEND

I would like to remind everybody that this coming weekend (11/28-11/29) will be the weekend we chose to do gift wrapping at Shopko. The sign up sheet was passed around on Tuesday and Friday, but not everybody was there to see it and sign up. We are still in need of help on both days. If you would like to help, but can't make it for the entire shift THAT IS OK. Even if you come and help for one hour all help will be welcome and much appreciated!

If you have signed up, but will not be able to show up for some reason or another PLEASE let me know or let somebody who is working the table already know if at all possible so that the table won't be left unattended or so we won't get too short handed.

As of right now this is the way the sign up sheet is:

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 28 (7:00 AM - 7:00PM)

7:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Jody Mathews
Alexzander Kimm
Maye Hofer

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Jody Mathews
Alexzander Kimm
Debra Ocanas

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Jody Mathews
Alexzander Kimm
LaKatherine Borgers

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM (CLEAN UP)
Jody Mathews
Alexzander Kimm
LaKatherine Borgers

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 29 (8:00 AM - 8:00 PM)

8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Kim Patzkowski
Alexzander Kimm
Dorothy Wilson

11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Kim Patzkowski
Alexzander Kimm
Nora
Juana

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Kim Patzkowski
Alexzander Kimm
LaKatherine Borgers

5:00 PM - 8:00 PM (CLEAN UP)
Kim Patzkowski
Alexzander Kimm
Teresa Murphy

Again...if you would like to help PLEASE do not hesitate to show up. I would GREATLY appreciate it if I knew before hand so we can have a little bit of an idea of how many will actually be there, but even if you don't PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't hesitate to show up if you have some free time and wouldn't mind coming to help!

This will be a HUGE fundraiser for us again and I would LOVE to see this be successful!!

Food Drive for the weekend of 11/21 - 11/22

Harvest Foods Sign-up Sheet

905 S. Second Ave.

Walla Walla

Saturday, Novemeber 21st

9:00 -10:00

Debra

Nick M.

10:00 - 11:00

Debra

11:00 - 12:00

Debra

Sunday, November 22nd
10:00 - 11:00
Debra
11:00 - 12:00
Jonathon
12:00 - 1:00
Alice P.
Barbara

Andy's Market
1117 S. College Ave.
College Place
Sunday, November 22nd
10:00 - 11:00
Nobody
11:00 - 12:00
Alejandro
Maye
12:00 - 1:00
Debra

Cookbook Update

Just got notification that the cookbooks should be here next week. So we can start selling more after Thanksgiving.