2009 Holiday Food Drive (To end at the Holiday Dinner in December)

[Broli]

To follow up on the success of the food drive two years ago and the chartiable nature of TM3 members it is time for the [/b]2009 Holiday Food Drive[/b]

The Plan

Collect food and cash donations at all meets from now until the holiday dinner in mid december.

I will ask that we have a few volunteers who regularly attend the various meets to collect food and remind members of the food drive. Please post up if you would like to do this.



Why

Last year over 1 million people in the GTA made use of the food bank services.

Over 1/3 of food bank clients are children.

Greatest increases in use of food bank services have come from families where members have lost jobs or had hours cut.

17% of children and 43% of adults who use food bank services go to bed hungry at least once a week.


I am sure that we don't need to here statistics to understand that this is a signficant problem that effects our city. We have an oppurtunity to help our community. I hope that we cease it.

I also hope that we raise more food and money than we did two years ago, we will let Vince's (Whitespeed3) back be the judge of that! (lol)


Most Needed Items

Baby formula & food
Beans & lentils
Canned fruits & vegetables
Canned fish & meat
Cans of soup or hearty stew
Dried pasta & tomato sauce
Macaroni & cheese
Peanut butter
Rice
Tetra Pak, canned or powdered milk


Some additional guidlines

Only donate items you would be willing to eat.

Check that items are not older than their “Best Before” date.

Make sure all items are unopened.

We can accept opened packages if the internal packaging is still intact.

Think Protein, Think Nutrition and Think Diversity


I hope that we have a sucessful food drive this year!

[sicsol]

Plan this year to fill Effin Ital P/U truck...lol

[Broli]

haha, for sure!

all the way this time!

[She_Prime]

I'll help with the collecting/prodding

[Broli]

awesome!

[mazdaskit]

It should be each meet you have to bring something for the drive

[Broli]

for sure

i encourage people to bring as much as they can afford to give


also they can collect from friends, family and coworkers

[Broli]

just to pump people up (good suggestion Ami)

here are a few pics from the food drive 2 years ago

we collected 450 lbs of food and 229 dollars

at the bubbaQ we collected 200 dollars and the club matched it for a total of 400 dollars

lets make this year an even bigger hit!

[Default User]

To lazy to search....
...but is there a list if upcoming events.
I know C7 cruise...but what else?

[Broli]

every wednesday there is a central meet

there are biweekly meets in the west and east


whereabouts do you live and we can figure things out

[Default User]

Scarb/Pickering border

[S.F.W.]

Scarb/Pickering border

Maybe MCGuyver can help us out. He is very close to that area, perhaps if you are not coming to a La Paloma meet, you could drop the items to him, and he could bring to the meet, and myself, Phil, or Broli will collect.

[Broli]

that would work perfectly

[Broli]

some news


anyone who wishes and makes a $5.00 donataion at a meet or donates at least 3 items will have the oppurtunity to select their own user title for a few months.


so if you are tired of seeing noob or junior member, or senior member or moderator . . . now is ur chance to change that for a bit.


hope this helps to get a jump on some donations!

[Zoom Zoom Boy]

Guys, I'll make a donation, likely just in cash though. If my knee is well enough for hockey this weekend, I'll see you then. Otherwise, I'll give the donation to Ami next time I see him.

[S.F.W.]

Big thank to Froggy who donated $10 to the TM3 Food drive.

[froggy]

Big thank to Froggy who donated $10 to the TM3 Food drive.

aww shucks, now where's my changed user title?? "Official TM3 food tester" has a nice ring to it

[S.F.W.]

aww shucks, now where's my changed user title?? "Official TM3 food tester" has a nice ring to it

Done!

[froggy]

lol thanks

[Broli]

mucho respect to the hypnotoad!!!

[S.F.W.]

TM3 would like to thank Zoom Zoom Boy for donating $25 to the cause. Tim, let myself or Alex know if you would like a custom user title.

Where is everyone else's donation?

[froggy]

TM3 would like to thank Zoom Zoom Boy for donating $25 to the cause. Tim, let myself or Alex know if you would like a custom user title.

Where is everyone else's donation?

saving my pennies and quarters for the big day

[Broli]

big thanks to Tim!

hope to see some more people ante up at the dinner!

remember custom user title =

[S.F.W.]

saving my pennies and quarters for the big day

This is actually a great idea! People, on top of any other donation you were considering, please bring your change jars/buckets, etc. Myself & Broli will roll the change and add it to the club donation!

[Nextmod]

Nextmod Food Drive Match up

Nextmod would like to support the food drive.
To help encourage participation, Nextmod will match all donations of $25 or greater(to a maximum of $250).

Donations Matched:

1) Zoom Zoom Boy- $25 - Nextmod Match - $25
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