Summer 2014 Newsletter of the Fort Bragg Food Bank

THE FOOD BAG

FOOD DISTRIBUTION SCHEDULE 910 N Franklin St, Fort Bragg 964-9404

General Distribution (All Ages) MON, WED, FRI: Noon – 3 pm

WED: 4:30 – 5:30 pm

Senior Distribution (60+) MON, WED, FRI: 10:45 – 11:15 am

Clients may come once each week

EXTRA HELP FOR SENIORS

We provide a monthly Senior Box of additional food to our senior clients through a federally funded program called CSFP (you don’t really want to

know what this stands for!). This year we were happy to add three new distribution sites for this program. Locally, seniors can now pick up their monthly box at the Redwood Coast Senior Center as well as at the Food Bank. We’re hoping this will be a convenience to seniors who regularly use the services of the Senior Center. We also added sites at the Anderson Valley and Gualala food pantries which will provide extra food to low-income seniors in these communities.

FOR THE KIDS! We’re so fortunate to have wonderful community partners concerned with the health and well-being of our children. The Mendocino Coast Children’s Fund has designated $10,000 of their share of the funds donated by Harvest Market through their Grocery Bag Token program for supplementing the nutrition of vulnerable children during extended school vacation periods when subsidized school lunches are not available to them. All summer long Food Bank families with children will receive an extra weekly food bag chock full of milk, eggs, other high-protein foods and fresh produce. We also are distributing diapers, courtesy of the Childrens’ Fund, to families with infants and toddlers.

Visit our Website: www.fortbraggfoodbank.org

FRESH PRODUCE FOR REMOTE RURAL FOOD PANTRIES

With the help of a $6,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Mendocino Co. we are delivering more fresh produce to small food pantries in the remote areas of our county – in Gualala, Point Arena, Boonville, Leggett, Laytonville, and Round Valley. So far we’ve delivered about 3 ½ tons of food to these sites each month. We already deliver USDA commodities to these sites monthly, so it made sense to make use of spare truck capacity on these monthly delivery runs to bring more food to these sites. These small rural pantries, ably run by faithful volunteers, usually take place in spaces borrowed from local churches or civic groups. Most lack storage space and vehicles to transport food so they are enthusiastically grateful for this extra food for their clients.

OUR VISION: People coming together to create hope for a dignified, abundant life for everyone.

OUR MISSION: To provide nutritious food that supports people in creating a healthy and better

PRST STD NONPROFIT

POSTAGE PAID PERMIT #18 FT BRAGG CA

BREAKFAST CLUB RAFFLE

Breakfast for Two – every month for a year! Plus on your Birthday!

Winner Takes All ! BREAKFAST FOR TWO FROM ALL 13

RESTAURANTS

Great Odds ! ONLY 100 TICKETS WILL BE SOLD

BREAKFASTS GENEROUSLY DONATED BY: Flow Restaurant Eggheads Mendocino Hotel Café 1 MacCallum House Laurel Deli Little River Inn JJ’s Restaurant Sandpiper House Cucina Verona Headlands Coffeehouse David’s Queenie’s Roadhouse Cafe

TICKETS: $50 - FOR SALE AT: THE FOOD BANK & HARVEST MARKET

DRAWING: LABOR DAY. NEED NOT BE PRESENT TO WIN

FORT BRAGG FOOD BANK

PO Box 70 Fort Bragg CA 95437

HOW YOU CAN HELP Send a check – big or small – everything helps! Bring us your used grocery bags. Drop off a case of food or bag of groceries. Too many zukes! We’ll take ‘em! Volunteer your time! Love one another!

A Benefit Concert for the Fort Bragg Food Bank Friday Aug 29 at 7 pm – 1st Presbyterian Church

Calling All Soupmakers!

We’re looking for talented soupmakers to enter our annual Fundraising Event

3RD Annual

soup & Chili Cook-Off

Saturday Oct 18 5 – 7:30 pm

Pentecost Hall

Let us know if you would like to participate

Call 964-9404

Thank You

TO OUR TOP 2013 DONORS

Season of Sharing

Dorine Real & Lee Tepper

The Community Foundation of Mendocino Co

Joe & Terry Furgerson

Kathleen Kohn Fetzer Family Foundation

Robert & Susan Juntz

Divine Assistants International

Do Gooders

Harvest Market

Jeffrey & Helen Woodfield

Betty Stechmeyer

Carol Young Brooke Foundation

Mendocino Coast European Auto

Robert Jones

Bruce & Moira Conzelman

Steven & Patricia Zlatunich

Coastal Mendocino Association of Realtors

Frisbee Ice Bowl

Cheryl & Kenneth Pogue

Savings Bank of Mendocino County

Gilmore Perla

Peter Lit & Darcie Mahoney

Sharon Valenti

GAG Charitable Group

Mendocino Solar Service

Paul & Barbara Clark

Nicholas Yost & Sandra Rennie

Jerome & Patricia Thomas

Pase Trust

Lloyd & Judith Kozloff

Knights of Columbus

Hawthorne Timber Co

Doug Hammerstrom & Diane Harris

Elizabeth Gibson

Ron & Lola Brashear

Rotary Club Of Fort Bragg

Linda Kalman

Mary McNeill

Laura Vogelgesang

Judith Summers

David Gurney

North Coast Opportunities

Louise Rossi

Howard Martin

Denise Kreienhop

Betty Abramson & Charles Artigues

Heidi Altvater

Mavis Moore

Paula Gann

Oscar Erion

Jacqueline Dornan

Thomas Corey

Bill & Barbara Knapp

North Coast Energy Services

Royal Redwood Ranch

Thomas J White & Leslie Scalpino Fund

Team Insurance & Financial Services

Jeanne Stoenner

Phillip & Monica Steinisch

St Anthony Catholic Church

Samuel Snook

Mary & William Shepherd

Norman Rudman

William & Linda Rohr

Michael Nissenberg & Kathy MacDonald

Mendocino Presbyterian Church

Paul & Irene McGuckin

Judy & Bob Mathey

Susan Larkin

Elk Altar Society

Patricia Dunbar

Kristin Dempsey

Sharon Core

Claire S Ellis & Chuck Greenberg Fund

William & Mildred Bohannan

Jordan & Lila Ayers

Orval & Joan Arnett

Mike Anderson

Elizabeth Owings

Fremont De Armond

April Mason

Cap'n Flints

Rosenthal Thornton Construction

Warren Volk

Karen Lebacqz

Fort Bragg First Presbyterian Church

Norma Andres

SO MANY THANKS, SO LITTLE SPACE

We regret that we lack the space to list everyone who has donated so generously to us over the last year. So many caring community members gave that their names would not all fit on this page. Without their contribution the Food Bank would truly not be able to run. Our sincere thanks to these regrettably unsung heroes!

Only 2013 cash donors are listed above. 2014 donors will be acknowledged at a later date. We have not listed people who gave so generously through the Season of Sharing campaign as they were acknowledged in the Fort Bragg Advocate News. We have made every effort not to list donors who wished to remain anonymous. If we have inadvertently mentioned any such donors, please accept our sincere apology and let us know so that we can correct our files.

A Big Thank YouTo All Who Participated in the

2013 Season of Sharing Special Thanks To: Sharon DiMauro, The Fort Bragg Advocate News, The Community Foundation of Mendocino County and to all the community members who contributed so generously through this campaign! Special appreciation for reporter, Frank Hartzell!

Our Gratitude to the Matching Funders of the

2013 Turkey Challenge Savings Bank of Mendocino County Team Insurance & Financial Services Mendocino Coast European Auto

Mendocino Solar Service Century 12 – Paul & Barbara Clark

Thank You So Much to Local Businesses That Donate Extra Food Weekly

Harvest Market Safeway Harvest at Mendosa’s Purity Market Colombi’s Market

Corners of the Mouth Thanksgiving Coffee D’Aurelios’ Starbucks The Cookie Company

Café Beaujolais GoodLife Bakery Flow Restaurant

Our Appreciation To: Groups That Host Food Drives & Barrels

Harvest Market Safeway Letter Carriers Lavendar Lady Savings Bank of Mendo Co Fort Bragg Library

Redwood Elementary Dana Gray Elementary FBHS Key Club Fort Bragg Presbyterian

Church

4H Club Mendo Coast Frolf Club Mendocino Coast Jewish

Community

Many Thanks to:

Regular Donors of Fresh Produce Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens Mendocino Coast Produce

North Coast Brewing Company Local Backyard Gardeners

THANK YOU and A BIG HUG TO OUR WONDERFUL VOLUNTEERS!