It has been a busy few months here at Twelve Baskets Food Pantry!!! Great things have been happening. Let me share with you a few awesome highlights in this months newsletter.

We had a great turn out for our plant sale. Lots of flowers and plants were donated from the nurseries around the community. We were able to raise more money this year then any year before!! Thank you to all that made this possible, from the volunteers that set it up to the loyal customers that come back year after year to buy their plants from our fundraiser!!

The Krugh Family continues to be a huge support to our Food Pantry. We love seeing their little guy every month. He really enjoys shopping for items to donate with his parents. Isn’t he adorable !? We think so!! Thank you so much to this family for their continued support in our mission to help STOMP OUT HUNGER right here in our community.

We also had a bittersweet dinner between the board members and our AMAZING foreign exchange students , Maurice and Ruta. We are sad they had to return back to their countries but so blessed that they chose Twelve Baskets Food Pantry for their community service hours. These two kids are so kind and very helpful. They brought the sunshine on rainy days with their infectious smiles and positive attitudes. Even after their required hours were done, they continued on volunteering with us every week!! They will definitely be missed as they are very loved and part of our family now.

Our board member, Heather, lead a mother’s day project for the needy moms that shop at Twelve Baskets Food Pantry. She says “With the grace of the Lord and the amazing community I was able to make 52 bags full of fun pampering stuff for the moms that shop at Twelve Baskets. It was beautiful hearing all the excitement come from the moms when they returned after opening their bags. I feel that moms never take time out for themselves and thought that it would be a great treat for them. I couldn’t have done it without the help of the community and God. Thank you for everyone’s help to make mother’s day special for several moms at the pantry.”

We have been getting lots of goodies from our new pick up from Blain’s. From nuts, chips, candies, and several other nonperishable food items. Thank you so much to Blain’s for your continued support in our mission to STOMP OUT HUNGER. We also picked up a new restaurant!! We now get food from Outback Steak house as well!! How awesome is that ??!! Thank you so much Outback Steakhouse for your support !!

We’ve had several girl scout groups come through volunteering their time and raising money for us. We received several boxes of girl scout cookies from a couple of the groups this past few months. Thank you so much to these hard working, sweet girls. We appreciate when the community groups join together to helping feed the hungry in our community. We also had a group from a dance academy volunteer their time. It is great!! We definitely love these volunteer groups.

We had a great time at Eaton Corp during their employee fun day. Board members Tami and Heather represented Twelve Baskets Food Pantry during their day of fun. The girls set up a fun game inspired by the Bozo Show from their childhood. Instead of buckets they used 12 baskets of different sizes for the employee to try to toss the ping pong ball. The employees had to donate money in order to play. If they won or donated money they got raffle tickets for their chance to win prizes supplied by Eaton. So it was a win win for everyone. They had lots of employees playing their game. It was a lot of fun and we were able to share information about our pantry to the employees and other booths. GREAT DAY!!

We have our ANNUAL GOLF AND DINNER FUNDRAISER coming up this September 14th 2019 at Indian Run Golf Club!! Get registered today to hold your spot. Space is limited. It is $75 per player and that includes golf, lunch at the turn, and dinner with a band for dancing!! If you can’t or don’t like to golf we have a just dinner option just for you!!! For $25 you get an awesome 5 star dinner with dessert and a great time dancing to the band. To get registered and join the fun email board member Heather at mazeheather@yahoo.com and she will get you preregistered for this awesome event. We will have several raffles so be sure to bring a nonperishable food item or personal care item. For each item that you bring you will receive a raffle ticket for your chance to win awesome prizes!!!

Thank you to all of our volunteers that continue to show up and help us during stocking and distributions. If you are looking for something fun and fulfilling to do join us every Tuesday from 10 am until around 1 pm and every Friday from 9 am-1:30 pm for stocking. We also need volunteers to help during distributions too. Distribution day and times are the first and third Friday from 4-7 pm and the 2nd and 4th Saturday from 8:30 am until noon.

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God Bless