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| School Supplies Collected!! Wow! |
Summer 2012 Hons On A Mission collected school supplies to be donated to students that come to The Franciscan Center in Baltimore for help. Angela Wu headed up this project and she wanted to extend a heart felt thank you to the community for all of these great supplies. The new backpacks, composition books, pencils, paper, markers and ..... just everything that students need to start off the school year right.
1 in 4 Baltimorians live in poverty. These children often go to school without the tools to learn. The Franciscan Center collects supplies to given out in August. Many poor children will benefit from your kind efforts.
Thank you Angela and all of you who helped make this drive a success.
Here is a quote from our contact at the Franciscan Center about the school supplies drive -
“The Franciscan Center is so grateful to Hons on a Mission for their generous donations of school supplies. The Center is assisting our clients with filling their children’s school supply lists and so far we have assisted 20 families! Thanks to all who helped in this effort by helping us provide the tools necessary for students to succeed!
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A VERY SPECIAL COOPORATIVE FOOD DONATION EFFORT - HOAM AND MULTIPLE CARING NEIGHBORHOOD CITIZENS ON PATROL (COP) WORK TOGETHER!
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| Campus Hills COP member Wesley Wood picks up food from Ridgely Condominium COP leader Roger Proehl |
This year National Night Out (community-police awareness raising event) featured a huge multi-community food drive to
benefit the Assistance Center of Towson Churches, which coordinates the
ecumenical efforts of 48 churches to provide emergency food and help to those
in need. The COP patrollers participating in the motorcade brought non-perishable food items from their neighborhoods to Towson Place, where ACTC officials collected it.
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leaders and patrollers are donating to ACTC because hunger does not go
away," said Roger Proehl, a COP leader from The Ridgeleigh Condominium.
"Helping those in need is always a blessing. It’s good for them and good
for you too.”
ACTC is always in need of deodorant, razors, lotion, socks,
and toiletries as well as cereal, canned tomatoes, pork and beans, canned
vegetables and fruits, canned pasta meals (ravioli,spaghetti),
spaghetti sauce, tuna, peanut butter and jelly, soup, dried pasta (spaghetti,
macaroni), boxed saltine crackers, pop-top canned goods for homeless Care
Bags, canned meat (beef stew, chili, Spam, etc.), macaroni and cheese,
boxed potatoes.
Thank you Lee Klima, TACOP photographer! Above info from local press release.
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| Lindy Uternmhole, first director ACTC with Mary Wynne Eisenberg of Stoneleigh and Charlie Utermhole, ACTC volunteer |
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| Brian, Bisset and Fiona with Bella - food donations from Stoneleigh |
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| Annie Biser, Stoneleigh Neighborhood Food Drive Coordinator with Charlie |
Our next big drive will be for teenage girls and boys clothing, shoes, etc. We have been asked to collect these items for the residents of a nearby mental health facility. Please keep this in mind as you go through your children's clothing and pass this on to friends, family and co-workers.
If you would like to get involved with this drive, please contact me (see below).
And if you would like to start a Hons On A Mission group in your community, please contact Donna Rae Smith at donnaraesmith@yahoo.com
Have a great rest of the summer. Hope you enjoy some peaceful moments before the busy school year starts and the holiday season and so on and so forth. Fall is my favorite time of year. For me a time to reflect on the new year coming and enjoy the earth changing into a whole new beautiful landscape of color and a whole new vib. Meanwhile, enjoy these last days and what magnificent beauty they have to offer.
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| Photo by Emily Rae Sturtevant Martin, extraordinaire! |
