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Greetings!
Thank you for giving your time to help fight hunger.
Whether you volunteer by repacking food, working in
the Learning Garden, assisting with nutrition classes,
helping with events or special projects or giving
hunger a voice through advocacy or the speakers'
bureau, your work has a tremendous impact on OFB's
abillity to meet the needs of people who are hungry
in our communities. Last year, volunteers came
together to contribute more than 88,793 hours to
Oregon Food Bank.
This newsletter is another way to thank you, to
inform you and to recognize your work. We welcome
your feedback. Please send your comments to
e-news@oregonfoodbank.org. If you would like to
stop receiving this newsletter, simply click on the
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| Volunteer at the Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival |
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?I like to be where the action is. That?s why I
volunteer at the blues festival. It can be hectic. But
it?s very entertaining.?
?Jesse Reding, Wells Fargo employee.
Have fun, help fight hunger and hear the greatest
blues artists in the world. Volunteer at the Safeway Waterfront
Blues Festival, Friday, July 30, through
Tuesday, July 4, 2006.
The Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival is the largest
blues festival west of the Mississippi and the second
largest blues festival in the nation. It's also the
largest fund-raiser for Oregon Food Bank.
More than more than 2,200 volunteers are the driving
force behind the festival?s success each year.
OFB still needs volunteers to help with
this year?s five-day festival, particularly on Monday,
July 3, and Tuesday, July 4.
To request a volunteer shift, contact
sbrockmeier@oregonfoodbank.org. State that
you
would like to volunteer for the Safeway Waterfront
Blues Festival, and list your contact information and
the dates and times that you are available. OFB will
contact you to schedule your volunteer shift.
Find answers to frequently asked questions about
volunteering at the Safeway Waterfront Blues
Festival.
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| Letter Carriers Food Drive brings in 1.4-million pounds of food |
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More than 500 OFB volunteers helped make this
year's National Association of Letter Carriers Food
Drive, the largest one-day
food drive in Oregon and in the nation, a huge
success.
Volunteers sorted and boxed more than 1,401,454
pounds of food that letter carriers collected in just
one day. That exceeds last year's statewide
total of 1,358,819 pounds of food.
?What our letter carriers do on this one day is simply
amazing,? said Rachel Bristol, executive director of
Oregon Food Bank. ?We are grateful for their
tremendous work. We also thank the hundreds of
volunteers who stepped forward to help and the
hundreds of thousands of postal customers who
donated bags of high-quality food for their letter
carriers to pick up on this day."
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Oregon Food Bank is an affilate of America's Second
Harvest-The Nation's Food Bank Network.
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Oregon Food Bank celebrates outstanding volunteers |
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Oregon Food Bank celebrates outstanding
volunteers
Oregon Food Bank celebrated volunteers at a special
dinner and awards ceremony on April 26, during
National Volunteer Week.
OFB presented awards to individuals and groups
who have contributed 1,000, 2,000 or more than
8,000 volunteer hours to OFB. And author, Jody Seay
spoke to volunteers about the impact of their work in
the community.
"It was an honor to be surrounded with so many
amazing volunteers and to recognize them for their
dedication to helping to fight hunger," says Queta
González, volunteer program manager.
Oregon Food Bank recognized Donna Ching, Mary
Ruhl and Shirley
Sutton for volunteering 1,000 or more hours.
In addition, Oregon Food Bank recognized First
Christian Church, Nike, PGE, Rose City Park
Presbyterian, Tektronix, The Standard, Central
Catholic High School, Catlin Gabel Middle School
and Willamette Primary School for each
group's contribution of more than 2,000 volunteer
hours to OFB. OFB awarded Hands on
Portland for
directing more than 8,000 hours of volunteer service
to OFB's programs.
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