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Loaves & Fishes of Contra Costa has been feeding the hungry for over 25 years. Jolene Lafayette and Eleanor Bonner are Development Director and Interim Executive Director, respectively. Loaves & Fishes run 5 dining rooms in Antioch, Bay Point, Martinez, and Oakley. They serve between 800-900 nutritious meals at lunchtime. Overhead is less than 15%, [...]
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Trust in Education’s latest project is solar ovens. Through the passion of a local East Bay volunteer, TIE made five solar cookers and sent them to Kabul in mid-2010. Then during Budd’s visit in September, they assembled the ovens and delivered them to refugee camps. The Afghanis didn’t know quite what to make of them. [...]
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Our Program Director Extraordinaire for 2010-11 , Steve McKae, presented the speaker books to Creekside Librarian, Larissa Worth. After each speaker’s presentation, Steve presented a short synopsis of each book he chose for the benefit of the club and speaker. Then the speaker signed the donation plate inside the book cover. Some of the books [...]
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Having Budd MacKenzie speak to us about Trust in Education is almost an annual event. We have been supporting TIE for several years, and did so again this year with a donation. Budd founded TIE in 2004, and has gone to Afghanistan twice a year for six years. He started by raising funds to build [...]
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This year’s Rotary Convention was held in New Orleans from May 22-25. Over 18,000 Rotarians attended the convention. Incoming President, Mike Sherrill was in attendance, as was current President, Melanie Prole. David Behring was there representing the Wheelchair Foundation. We got to see each other at the District Mixer held at the historic Hotel Monteleone [...]
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Our primary motivating force, “Service Above Self”, is to give back to the community and to help those in need. The generous participation of our sponsors provides us with the resources to undertake more projects than ever before. Through your generous donations we are able to reach out to those in need in our community [...]
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