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17th Annual Holiday Guide Annual Winter Food & Funds Drive Is On! You Can Help Sonoma County People Facing Hunger


Dalton Wiley. “We rely on the public to donate critical food, money and volunteer time to help our friends and neighbors in need during the holidays and throughout the year.” Hun- ger is year-round for our most vulnerable neighbors, yet food and money collected during the winter season helps to support ending hunger every day of the year.


During the Winter Food


Santa Rosa, CA. ~ The Red- wood Empire Food Bank (REFB) region’s leader in hunger relief launched its An- nual Winter Food and Funds Drive to help the one in six So- noma County residents strug- gling with hunger. It began November 1st


and runs through January 31st, 2016. Thousands


of Sonoma County businesses and individuals will help end hunger in our community by donating food and funds to the REFB. “Community involve- ment allows us to provide food assistance to 82,000 children, adults and seniors in Sonoma County,” said REFB Commu- nity & Events Coordinator,


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and Funds Drive, look for the orange REFB food donation barrels at the following gro- cery stores: Safeway, Oliver’s Markets, G&G Supermarkets, Whole Foods Markets and the Grocery Outlet in Santa Rosa.


How to get involved Sonoma County residents can


get involved in the following ways:


• Make a fi nancial donation. For every one dollar that is do- nated, the REFB can provide two meals to a neighbor in need. The REFB accepts dona- tions online, by phone, mail or


in person at the REFB located at 3990 Brickway Blvd., Santa Rosa, CA 95403. • Host a Food & Funds Drive. Go to www.refb.org to sign up! Food donations ensure our shelves are stocked for people seeking emergency food assis- tance and monetary donations allow us to purchase nutritious food for families in need. • Volunteer at the REFB. The REFB relies on over 4,000 vol- unteers each year to pack, sort, deliver


and distribute more


than 15 million pounds of food annually. • Visit our website at www.refb. org – for more information.


Valuable corporate sponsors support our mission to end hun- ger in Sonoma County. Thank you to Redwood Credit Union, this year’s Presenting Sponsor, for helping us to ensure that children, families, and seniors receive the food assistance they need. For more information: Christy Gentry, Communica- tions Coordinator. 707)523- 7900 x 158 | cgentry@refb.org


The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.


Thomas Henry Huxley, An Address to the Students of the Faculty of Medicine in University College, London, May 18, 1870


JOKES & Humor # 8 ... continued from page 22


At the end of a year he owns three old trucks. His two sons have left their neighborhood gangs to help him with the tomato business, his wife is buying the tomatoes, and his daughter is taking night courses at the community college so she can keep books for him. By the end of the second year he has a dozen very nice used trucks and employs fi fteen previously unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. He continues to work hard. Time passes and at the end of the fi fth year & he owns a fl eet of nice trucks and a ware- house which his wife supervises, plus two tomato farms that the boys manage. The tomato com- pany’s payroll has put hundreds of homeless and jobless people to work. His daughter reports that the business grossed a million dollars.


Planning for the future, he decides to buy some life insurance. Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fi t his new circumstances. Then the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the fi nal documents electronically.


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When the man replies that he doesn’t have time to mess with a computer and has no e-mail address, the insurance man is stunned, What, you don’t have e-mail? No computer? No Internet? Just think where you would be today if you’d had all of that fi ve years ago!”


“Ha!” snorts the man. “If I’d


had e-mail fi ve years ago I would be sweeping fl oors at a large fi rm and still be making only $5.15 an hour.”


We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. ~Lynn Hall


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