More than 100 volunteers helped distribute Thanksgiving dinner baskets to 373 families at the Stanwood Camano Food Bank on Saturday.
The food bank provides food boxes monthly to more than 1,000 people in need of groceries and items such as toiletries that can’t be purchased with food stamps.
A concert Sunday will raise money, in part, for the food bank. A Celtic Christmas benefit concert is set for 7 p.m. at St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 1318 Highway 532, Camano Island. Admission is free, but an offering will be taken to benefit the food bank and the Safe Harbor Free Clinic. Childcare is provided. For information, go to www.arkmusic.com.
Also, the Stanwood-Camano School District Transportation Center holds its annual Fill the Bus food drive from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 6 at the Stanwood QFC, Stanwood Haggen and Camano Plaza IGA. Or donate online at www.stanwoodcamanofoodbank.org.
Kiwanis and teens reach out to families
For many years the Lake Stevens Kiwanis group has sponsored more than 20 local families to help them with a Thanksgiving meal. More than 30 volunteers gathered at Jay’s Market on Nov. 22 and loaded items in their cars to deliver meals to the families. Volunteers included Kiwanis members, Key Club members from Lake Stevens High School and Boy Scouts.
Each family was given a turkey, bags of groceries and two gallons of milk.
Tribes deliver big for Marysville food bank
The Marysville Community Food Bank recently thanked the Tulalip Tribes for “a tremendous donation” Nov. 14 of $31,500. Of that, $10,000 will support the Food For Thought Backpack program, which provides weekend food to school children who are at risk of not having enough food; $16,500 will go to general food purchases that support the food bank’s holiday baskets and beyond; and $5,000 has been given to help put a turkey in every Thanksgiving basket being provided to clients in Marysville and Tulalip.
Edmonds brokers’ donation weighs in at 19,200 pounds
As a part of the annual Realtor Food Drive in October, Windermere Edmonds brokers, with the help of community donors and a local partnership with Las Brisas Mexican restaurant, brought in a total of 19,200 pounds of food through food and cash donations to benefit Edmonds-area food banks. The Windermere Edmonds office — led by food drive leaders Adam Cobb, Dave Watkins, Christie Quigley, Cheri Neil and Kristine Hovde — made and gathered donations that represented 34 percent of the county-wide (28 Realtor offices) total of 56,183 pounds of food. The haul made them the “grand champions” of the Snohomish County-Camano Association of Realtors Food Drive.
Eagle Scout plants garden for church
Troop 19’s newest Eagle Scout is Parker Eugenio, the 30th Eagle Scout from Immaculate Conception and Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Everett. Parker’s Eagle Scout project was a Mary garden at Holy Innocents Church in Duvall. A Mary garden is a small, sacred garden enclosing a statue or shrine of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and includes flowers meant to symbolize her virtues.
Parker is a senior at Lake Stevens High School with plans for a career in graphic design.
Big donation by Soroptimists for abused children
Soroptimist International of Marysville recently purchased a children’s exam table for Dawson Place Child Advocacy Center. At $4,500, it was one of the club’s largest donations. The small exam table rests on a foundation made to look like a colorful turtle.
The nonprofit Dawson Place Child Advocacy Center serves child victims of sexual or physical abuse in Snohomish County, bringing together law enforcement, child protective services, medical, victim advocacy, prosecutors and mental health agencies.
Firefighters give warm donation for cold days
Lynnwood Fire Department’s International Association of Fire Fighters Local 1984 on Nov. 24 delivered more than 50 coats to College Place Elementary School to help students during cold weather. Operation Warm is a national nonprofit that was founded in 2002 to provide new winter coats to impoverished children. Support from 99.9 FM KISW and the Milgard Foundation helped make the donation possible.
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