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Hancock, MI 49930
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Winter Fun Sweepstakes
Thanksgiving and Christmas 2008
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December 200826 Office clean up25 Christmas Day Dinners and Hot Meal Delivery to the Homeboud 22 Keweenaw Winter Fun 2008 Sweepstakes drawing 17 Chrismas Lights evening tour 6-24 Prep for Christmas Day parties 3-24 Christmas Package and Gift Deliveries 13 Food Bags ready for distribution 12 Birthday Party 5 Begin delivery of Christmas gifts 3 Houghton 6th Graders Christmas luncheon with our elderly 2 Christmas Food Box package wrap November 200828 Office clean up27 Thanksgiving Day Dinners and Hot Meal Delivery the Homebound 21 Food Bags out 17 Set up Great Room for parties 7 Toddler Tea 1 Lambda Chi Alpha Food Drive October 2008
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Toddler Tea Looking to Volunteer? Thanksgiving and Christmas are fast upon us. We need help answering phones, picking up food donations, sorting items for the 11 party sites, and delivering to the party sites. In addition, we always need help on Thanksgiving and Christmas Days to set up, cook, transport our eldery, and clean up. We continue our year round programs of Visiting, Medical Transportation, and Birthday Parties and still need volunteers for these programs. Call Cathy at 482-6944 for more information.
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We are gearing up to stage our holiday parties on Thanksgiving and Christmas days. On each day we'll have more than 350 seated guests, and send out another 350 meals to our homebound elderly friends. 300 volunteers will help us mail invitations, track responses, solicit donations of food and party supplies, help us prepare and bake 65 turkeys for each party, stage the parties, and transport our friends to and from the parties. Our parties include turkey, sweet potatoes, stuffing and white potatoes made from scratch, a decorated hall with a table set with candles, music, and a memento and flower for each guest before they depart. Our goal is to welome our guests as we would members of our own families. Our parties are designed for those elderly who would otherwise spend this day alone, a common occurence in the Copper Country. Most of those we serve have children that have left the area in search of employment, their spouse has passed on, their siblings are deceased or too infirm get together. With mass transit limited to the cities of Houghton and Hancock, most of our elderly live outside the bus route. We recruit volunteers to transport our 300 guests on the holiday, and to deliver another 300 meals to homebound. | ||||