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Bring Cool Can Sam
to Your Vacation
Bible School!
Harvest Hope's mascot Cool Can Sam has a busy summer
planned, but can still find time to visit your Vacation Bible School. Cool Can
Sam would love to drop by to talk with kids about nutrition and the importance
of caring for those in our community. He will be happy to bring along coloring
books and stickers for everybody! To schedule an appearance of Cool Can Sam at
your Vacation Bible School, please call Katharine Stafford at
(803) 254-4432
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Spring Valley Storage Center
Presents FREE Family
Concert and Fun Day
Everyone is invited to come out
on Saturday, June 5 from 1:00 - 6:00 pm and enjoy a family-oriented food
drive for Harvest Hope Food Bank presented by Spring Valley Commons Storage
Center and held at their location at the Spring Valley Commons Shopping
Center at 9005 Two Notch Rd.
Admission is free with a donation of non-perishable food to
Harvest Hope. Activities will include live music, an inflatable
moonwalk, face
painting, hot dogs, hamburgers, soft drinks and other refreshments and
more.
There will be drawings for prizes including a laptop computer, a $150
gift
certificate to the Cycle Center, five months free storage at the Storage
Center, $10 gift certificates to Sammi's Deli and more.
While
this fundraiser is a one-day event, it kicks-off a
year-long campaign wherein three area Storage and Business Centers will
serve
as convenient drop off locations for donations to Harvest Hope Food
Bank. In
addition to the Spring Valley location, the other sites are the Beltline
Storage & Office
Centre at 3509 West Beltline Blvd and the Woodhill Storage & Office
Centre
at 6000 Garners Ferry Road.
Sponsors
for the event include: Spring Valley Storage and Business Centre, The
Cycle Center,
Tec Support Group, Hunni B Hair Studio, Thompson's Grand Rental Station
and
Lonnie Roberts Auto Repair.
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Enjoy Greenville Barry Blast Concert While Giving to Harvest Hope
Barry Blast Benefit Concert for Harvest Hope Food Bank at Gottrocks in Greenville Saturday June 5 starting at 9 pm.
The Barry Blast Concert at Gottrocks on Saturday June 5 will be a benefit for Harvest Hope Food Bank. The concert will feature Tambou Fou with special guests: Laura Reed, Solomon Wright, Slappy, Josh Riley and many others. Tickets are only $8 at the door. All door proceeds benefit Harvest Hope Food Bank in honor of the late Chef Barry. Gottrocks is located at 200 Eisenhower Drive, Greenville, SC 29607. |
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| Local Church Gathers
2,206 Pounds of Food
During Church
Service
New Springs Church in Florence gathered an amazing 2,206
pounds of food during their church service on Sunday, May 23, held at the
Florence Civic Center. The congregation of approximately 600 members not
only filled 12 barrels and 12 boxes of food, but took the time to separate and
organize the different food items in preparation for its pick up by a truck
from the Pee Dee Harvest Hope facility the next morning. This is the second
food drive for the Pee Dee branch organized by the congregation of New Spring
Church with more planned for the future.
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Find Your Funny Bone
at Free
Laughter Class
Let laughter bring the gift of food to hungry families in
our community and join us the first Monday of each month for FREE
Stress-Busting Laughter Exercise Classes presented by The Laugh Connection and
Harvest Hope Food Bank. Beginning Monday, June 6 at the Wingate Hotel on Hwy
378, Laughter Classes will be held from 7:00 until 8:00 pm and admission is
FREE with a donation of canned food to Harvest Hope Food Bank. Each healthy stress-relieving session is a
mind-body-spirit program of energizing laughter designed to provide light to
moderate exercise to promote mental and physical flexibility, mood regulation
and attitude boost. The program is G-rated and kid friendly so be sure to bring
the whole family. Come out, bring food for the hungry and let laughter de-tox
your spirit!
For more information please call Amy Lowery at
254-4432
ext. 2104.
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Greetings!
Donations Critical to Help Feed Hungry Children During Summer Months
One out of every four children under the age of five goes to bed hungry every night in South Carolina. And we at Harvest Hope know that number is likely to increase over the summer months.
With schools closed for the summer at-risk children who usually get free or reduced priced breakfast and lunches at school will lose those meals for the next three months. This places an added burden on their already financially hard-pressed parents. These households will now have to come up with two additional nutritious meals per child per day, and for many the burden is difficult if not impossible.
We are asking everyone to think about the children in their community. Children don't understand economics and unemployment, and they really shouldn't need to. They only understand when they are hungry.
You can help us by donating canned goods like soup, vegetables, meat products and fruit. Peanut butter (in plastic jars) is an incredibly nutritious and valuable staple, as well as easy-to-prepare dry goods like boxed macaroni and cheese. You can drop off these items at our food bank at 2220 Shop Road or call us at 254-4432, tell us where you live and work and we can let you know where there is a food drive convenient to you. Or if you'd like the convenience of donating right from your own desk, kitchen table or easy chair, then check out our Gift Catalog. Go to our website at www.harvesthope.org and click on the "Shop Now" button. The gift catalog lets you pick where you want your donation to go. Every dollar donated turns into 7 pounds of food, or ten meals. Just $36 will feed a family of four for one month. Just $108 will feed a family of four for three months. All summer!
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Palmetto Half Marathon Organizers
Present $7,200 to Harvest Hope
Phillip Gerrald and Alan Richardson of the Palmetto Half Marathon presented a check for $7,200 to Harvest Hope Food Bank on Thursday, May 13 at 2220 Shop Road. The proceeds were raised during the inaugural race held on Saturday, April 10, which was organized to raise funds to fight hunger and homelessness in the Midlands. The Palmetto Half Marathon was a huge success with 1,200 participants running the various courses.The very first running of the Palmetto Half Marathon, held at the Village at Sandhill, consisted of a half marathon, 5k and kids fun run. The event raised $28,800 for local charities due to great support from the local running community and many other community partners. Race proceeds went to aid the fight against hunger and homelessness in the Midlands by benefiting Alston Wilkes Society, St. Lawrence Place, Family Shelter and Harvest Hope Food Bank.
The race committee is already hard at work planning next year's race to be held at the Village at Sandhill on April 16, 2011.
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 First Annual Shag Extravaganza
Collects $5,000 and 416 Pounds of Food
The "Capital City Shag Extravaganza" hosted by the Capital City Shag Club, Columbia, SC was a huge success! The first ever dancing event was held on March 26 & 27, 2010 at the Medallion Center on Garners Ferry Rd. Capital City Shag Club president Bob Mergle and Tri-chair Marie Kiesel were happy to present a check for $5,000.00 to Harvest Hope CEO Denise Holland. The generous donation represents the combined contributions of the club members and a portion of the profits from the opening night's party. In addition to the monetary donation 416 pounds of food were gathered at the event and donated to Harvest Hope. Shag dancing is a cultural phenomenon that says so much about South Carolina and brings joy to so many in our state. It is fantastic that an event providing this much pleasure to Capital City Shag Club members was also instrumental in providing the valuable gift of food for those in our community who could use a little joy and kindness. The Capital City Shag Extravaganza II will be held on
March 25 & 26, 2011 at the Medallion Center.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
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Harvest Hope Food Bank benefits from the generous efforts of wonderful organizations like the Palmetto Half Marathon and the Capital City Shag Club. We could not hope to feed the many hungry families in South Carolina without such caring and concerned partners.
To find out how you can hold a food drive and help us provide for those in need please contact Amy Lowery at (803) 254-4432 ext. 2104 or e-mail alowery@harvesthope.org.
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Harvest Hope Food Bank
P.O. Box 451
Columbia, South Carolina 29202
803-254-4432
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