Ellen Engel Monthly food and cash donations for the Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank in Chandler have continued to increase now that the holiday season is upon us, and the results for November were encouraging, indeed. Generous Sun Lakes residents contributed a total of 1,525 pounds of staple foods and $435 in cash prior to this…
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Clubs & Classes, November 2015
Reach out Sun Lakes
Ellen Engel Monthly food collection drives sponsored by Reach Out Sun Lakes on behalf of Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank in Chandler have begun to increase now that most of the summer has passed and the results for September were encouraging, indeed. Generous Sun Lakes residents contributed 312.5 pounds of nourishing food and $395 in cash.…
Clubs & Classes, October 2015
Reach Out Sun Lakes reports 312.5 lbs of food and $395 in early September collections
Ellen Engel Reach Out Sun Lakes, a volunteer coordinating group for local charities, continues to collect food and dollars to support the work of the Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank, which serves over 600 needy Chandler families, because hunger does not stop during the sizzling summer months or national holidays. The partial totals for September are…
Clubs & Classes, September 2015
Reach Out Sun Lakes continues to help Matthew’s Crossing
Ellen Engel In the two August collections of food and cash for the Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank in Chandler, our loyal volunteers collected from only two local organizations because of summer suspensions by some of our other regular contributors. The Sun Lakes Bridge Club contributed 52 pounds of food and $65 in cash, while the…
Front Page, August 2015
Reach Out Sun Lakes seeks increased participation from our neighbors
Ellen Engel Collection of food items and cash contributions from our Sun Lakes friends during the July pickups of Reach Out Sun Lakes (ROSL) were incomplete as of this month’s Splash deadline; they will be reported next month along with the August pickup results. However, it is worth noting, as we did in last month’s edition,…
Clubs & Classes, July 2015
Reach Out Sun Lakes reports its half-year results for Matthew’s Crossing
Ellen Engel Collection of food items and cash contributions from our Sun Lakes friends during the June pickups of Reach Out Sun Lakes totaled 375 pounds of groceries and $226 in cash, all of which was delivered to the Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank. Even more impressive are the totals for the first half of 2015…
Clubs & Classes, June 2015
Reach Out Sun Lakes continues food bank support
Ellen Engel Food contributions and dollar donations collected by Reach Out Sun Lakes (ROSL) in May totaled 522 pounds of staple foods and $401 in cash. And the April totals, which were unavailable at press time last month, were 523.5 pounds of food and $156 in cash. Food collections for the year so far total…
Clubs & Classes, April 2015
Reach Out Sun Lakes continues its work
Ellen Engel Here are the results for The March food collection. On Monday, March 2 at the collection sponsored by the Sun Lakes Duplicate Bridge Club, generous Sun Lakes residents contributed 163 pounds of food and $97 in cash. On March 9 at the collection sponsored by the Sun Lakes Democratic Club, we garnered 278…
Clubs & Classes, January 2015
Reach Out Sun Lakes – January 2015
Ellen Engel Monthly food collection drives sponsored by Reach Out Sun Lakes and targeted for The Mathew’s Crossing Food Bank in Chandler have entered their seventh year. In 2014, Reach Out Sun Lakes collected 5,202.5 pounds (over 2.5 tons!) of basic foods and just over $5,200 in cash from generous residents. The dollars were used…
Clubs & Classes, November 2014
Reach Out Sun Lakes – November 2014
And the beat goes on – as representatives of Reach Out Sun Lakes continue making their monthly pickups of donated foods and cash contributions for the Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank of Chandler. Shown here are at the site of the October pickup from the Sun Lakes Bridge Club are (left to right) Reach Out Sun…