Stock Our Shelves (SOS) Food Drive


T he annual


Stock Our Shelves Food Drive is spon- sored by


Pensacola-area MANNA Volunteers and Providers (MVP) and supports MAN- NA’s mission to leave no one unfed. Scheduled for the late summer, the


drive is timed to bring needed re-supply to MANNA's pantry shelves follow- ing the long summer months, when the community's support generally wanes. The focus for the re-supply is on nonperishable canned and dry goods. Canned foods can be vegetables, fruit, meat, fish and soup. Dry goods can be rice, pasta, breakfast foods, dry beans, powered milk and peanut butter. The SOS Drive is designed to be


convenient. When you go shopping for the week's groceries for your family you'll be greeted by a MANNA vol- unteer at the entrance to our partner grocers. MANNA's volunteers will have suggestions for the grocery items MANNA is most in need of at the time, although any and all donations are greatly appreciated. When you're shop- ping simply pick up an extra item or two to donate on your way out. The 2010 SOS Food Drive will be


held Saturday, July 17, from 10am-2pm. Participating grocers are: Apple Market, Ever’man Natural Foods, Publix (9th Ave, Mobile Hwy), Winn Dixie (Bayou Blvd, 9th & Creighton), Food World (Pine Forest Rd, Mobile Hwy, N Davis Hwy, Barrancas), and WalMart (Creigh- ton, Hwy 29, Mobile Hwy, Navy Blvd, Blue Angel Pkwy). Volunteers are also needed to staff the collection sites, and drivers will be needed to help set up in the morning and collect donations in the afternoon. Extra warehouse help will be needed in the week following the food drive. For more information about the Stock Our Shelves (SOS) Food Drive, including details on volunteering, please contact MANNA at 850-432-2053. Visit the website at www.mannafoodpan- tries.org.


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America’s Power Colors


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What Our Flag Says About Us by Tori Hartman


America’s first Continental Congress likely didn’t consult a color glossary when choosing the colors for Betsy Ross to sew into the stars and stripes of our national flag. Yet her choices were uncanny at pinpointing the true message of the country for which it stands.


tinctive combination signals a powerful message. Our national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, honoring Old Glory, salutes the intensity that founds the home we call America. Red gives orders; it doesn’t take them. Red is in charge and represents the source of all power. It is related to the first chakra (also known as the root chakra, or spiritual energy center at the base of the human spine), signifying a rootedness in the physical land. White deflects and takes nothing


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personally. Ironically, while white can be seen as clean and pure, it can also indicate being alone, isolated and with a seeming lack of caring that may make it appear aloof and superior. Instead, in its pure form, white simply stands as a neutral presence. Blue is the color of the creative conformist, especially in the hue of navy blue. This blue assists if one is overly emotional or hasty in commu- nicating, because it helps calm things down. Navy represents truth that has been well thought out before being communicated. It symbolizes trustwor-


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hen we delve into the mean- ing behind red, white and blue, we learn that this dis-


thiness and honesty and conveys calm authority. That’s why the favorite corpo- rate color through much of the 1970s and 80s was navy. Here, then, is how the telling com-


bination of America’s colors plays out: The rashness of red conveys strength and courage, while white maintains a detached authority, and blue bears the idea that we stand united in trust and truth. Together, these three colors symbolize courage, author- ity and freedom. The Congress of the Confederation similarly chose these same three colors for the Great Seal of the United States, noting their meaning as white to mean purity and innocence, red for valor and hardiness and blue for vigilance, perseverance and justice. Americans have carried on with their energetic journey of freedom for themselves and the world since the day the first flag of the United States of America hung outside General George Washington’s headquarters on January 1, 1776.


Tori Hartman is a color consultant and author of Color Wisdom Cards. For more information on her work, visit ToriHartman.com.


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