Ellen Engel Usually in this space we report the results of each month’s food drive for the Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank in Chandler, but collections were not completed before the deadline date of the Splash this month, so we decided to skip the results and simply to review the process and its progress. We will report…
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Clubs & Classes, August 2017
Reach Out Sun Lakes encouraging summertime results
Ellen Engel Collections of staple food items and cash contributions from our Sun Lakes friends during July by Reach Out Sun Lakes (ROSL) brought forth 369 pounds of grocery items and $413 in cash contributions, a remarkably satisfying outcome for what is normally a very slow season for us because of the absence of our…
Clubs & Classes, July 2017
Reach Out Sun Lakes continues spring success
Ellen Engel We start this month’s report with a plug for our beneficiary organization, Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank of Chandler. Our Sun Lakes community continues to have significant impact on meeting the need, both through the monthly “Reach Out” food drives and with resident volunteers who work at the food bank itself. Matthew’s Crossing always…
Clubs & Classes, June 2017
Reach Out Sun Lakes continues its efforts for Matthew’s Crossing
Ellen Engel Here are the May (and late April) results for recent food and funds collections by Reach Out Sun Lakes on behalf of the Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank. On May 1, at the collections sponsored by the Sun Lakes Duplicate Bridge Club and Unity of Sun Lakes, generous Sun Lakes residents contributed a combined…
Clubs & Classes, May 2017
ROSL food donations for Matthew’s Crossing
Ellen Engel As of the Splash deadline in April, food donations to Reach Out Sun Lakes (ROSL) from generous Sun Lakes residents have totaled nearly a ton of foodstuffs so far this year, and the April collections are still coming in. We will report those totals in next month’s Splash. As a reminder to those who…
Clubs & Classes, March 2017
Food donations for Matthew’s Crossing already exceed a half ton in 2017
Ellen Engel We are off to a great start in our 10th year of collecting food and funds for the Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank in Chandler. Food donations to Reach Out Sun Lakes (ROSL) from generous Sun Lakes residents have already exceeded a half-ton, and the February collections are still coming in as we reach…
Clubs & Classes, February 2017
Reach out Sun Lakes begins its 10th year
Ellen Engel In a fine finish to its ninth year of collecting food and funds for the Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank in Chandler, and thanks to a late December contribution of 127 pound of staple foods from the Sun Lakes Jewish Community, Reach Out volunteers collected a total of 5,653.5 pounds (well over 2.5 tons!)…
Clubs & Classes, January 2017
Reach Out Sun Lakes winding up 9th year for Matthew’s Crossing
Ellen Engel In a fine beginning to the end of its ninth year of collecting food and funds for the Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank, Reach Out volunteers collected a total of 225 pounds of staple foods and $260 in cash from three of its four monthly collections — 196 pounds of staple foodstuffs and $545…
Generals, January 2018
Reach Out Sun Lakes winding up 10th year for Matthew’s Crossing
Ellen Engel Reach Out Sun Lakes has completed its 10th year of service to Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank of Chandler with a record 2017 collection of 5,305 pounds of staple foods (that is over two-and-a-half tons!), plus $5,239 in cash contributions to help purchase foods that cannot be donated (such as fresh fruits and vegetables…
Clubs & Classes, December 2016
Important new information about the Chandler Food Bank
Ellen Engel Because so many Sun Lakes residents have been saving their empty egg cartons for donation to Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank of Chandler, we are repeating an important announcement first published last month. We have been informed by the director of the Food Bank that they can no longer accept empty egg cartons (which…