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SEPTEMBER, 2014 NEWSLETTER
Page 1 Foothills Food Bank — June, 2014
Fall Calendar Oct. 1 Sign up for Adopt-a-Family begins 15/16
Taste of Cave Creek 17 Empty Bowls 18 Tatum Ranch Car Show 25
Wicked Halloween in Cave Creek 27 Thanksgiving Turkey
distribution
begins
Nov. 1/2 Wild West Days Rodeo/food drive
1 Wild West Days Parade 8 Shred Event 20 Board Meeting 25 Turkey
Tuesday (St. Vincent De Paul) 27/28 Food Bank closed 29/30 The
Nativities Dec. 1 Christmas Turkey distribution begins 13 Festival
of Lights Parade- Carefree
14 Adopt-a-Family Party and gift distribution with Santa
25/26 Food Bank closed
Dear Patrons, Donors, Volunteers and Sponsors, As you will see
when you read this newsletter, there is a lot going on this time of
year, and many reasons for us to be thankful for all of the
contributions that our volun-teers, neighbors and friends make to
the Foothills Food Bank. While we continue to fulfill our mission
to feed the hungry, we also continue to add services in hopes that
someday our clients will no longer need our assistance to survive
and thrive. There are many ways to help us through the next very
busy Fall and Holiday seasons. Looking at the calendar, you will
see opportunities to have fun, engage in commu-nity activities, and
support the Food Bank. Please consid-er joining us for an event,
conducting a food drive, con-tributing to our coffers, or perhaps
enrolling in our Adopt-a-Family program, which begins October 1.
You can be the Santa for one of the more than 400 families who rely
on Food Bank services for support. Contact us at
[email protected] or call us to sign up. As
always, if you can volunteer some of your valuable time to help us
pick up, deliver, mentor or serve in any way, we are grateful for
your support. Thank you so much, and I hope to see you at one of
our community events. Blessings of the season to all. Pam DiPietro,
Executive Director
Newsletter Contents
P. 2 Letter from Board President Food Bank Contact List P. 3 New
Services for Clients P. 4,5 Sponsor a Food Drive Anthem 9/11 Wagon
Train Come Shred with Us P. 6 Tickets Fore Charity Tatum Car Show
P. 7 Empty Bowls Event Wicked Halloween P. 8 Fulfilling Our Mission
What We Always Need
Jan. 1/2 Food Bank closed
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Foothills Food Bank_____________________________
Mission
The Foothills Food Bank and Re-source Center provides food,
referral information and finan-cial assistance to individuals and
families in need within our ser-vice area.
Hours of Operation
Monday: 9 am—3 pm Tuesday: 9 am—3 pm 5:30 pm—8 pm Wednesday: 9
am—3 pm Thursday: 10 am—4 pm 5:30 pm—8 pm Friday: 10 am—4 pm
Care Club Pick-up Times
Each Month
1st Wednesday Noon—4:30 pm
3rd Thursday Noon—8 pm
Physical Address
6038 E. Hidden Valley Drive
Cave Creek, AZ 85331
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 715
Carefree, AZ 85377
Contact Information Email [email protected] Phone
480-488-1145
Fax
480-488-9008
Twitter www.twitter.com/FoothillsFood Website
Foothillsfoodbank.com Facebook
www.facebook.com/
FoothillsFoodBank
Summer is a very busy time at the Food Bank. We continue to help
a growing number of clients, but there are signifi-cantly fewer
volunteers available because of the migration back to summer homes.
Fortunately, we have great folks helping with the work schedules
and even greater volun-teers with attitudes of “doing whatever it
takes to help out.” We have also been fortunate to have a number of
students volunteer. We are happy to have them, and thank them and
their parents for their support over these past few months.
Our shelves are stocked in the summer with a combination of
groceries donated from our local grocery stores, purchases made at
food stores, and from discounted purchases from our partner St.
Mary’s Food Bank. Our inven-tory shrinks during the summer because
more food goes to clients and less is donated or purchased. We
welcome the coming Fall when so many food drives are initiated, and
our inventory increases with each passing week. Without food drives
such as those illus-trated on pages 4 and 5, we would not be able
to maintain our support to our grow-ing client base. October is a
very important month to the Food Bank. A number of our volunteers
return to the area, and key fundraising activities such as Empty
Bowls are held. Learn more about these fun fundraising events on
pages 6 and 7. Adopt-a-Family sign-up also starts in October, and
we hope to have another successful year of giving during our
holiday season. As you can see by the articles on the opposite
page, we continue to look for ways to help our clients help
themselves. The Food Bank is expanding both our Snack Pack and
Resource and Education Advocacy programs, and introducing new
programs to teach our clients how to grow produce and how to
prepare for a successful job search. As always, should you have any
suggestions to add to our services, please let us know. Thank you
for helping us help others.
PS—We are still looking for a second van. Please call if you can
help!
Letter from Board President Chuck Weirauch
Summer Statistics Pounds of Food
Donated Distributed June 27,287 70,863 July 52,216 66,124 Aug.
47,263 61,862 Number of people served: 3,474
The Foothills Food Bank Newsletter Editor/Designer—Peni Long
Contributions by David Newman, Diane Steenman, Sue Kern
Fleischer, and Jeanne Dammon.
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Looking for a Job? Team Job Search Can Help Foothills Food Bank
and Resource Center now offers Team Job Search to its customers who
seek employment in the Cave Creek/Carefree area. Team Job Search
will pro-vide workshops to assist Food Bank clients to rein-
vent the way they look for work and learn how to ensure that
applications and résumés are selected for interviews so that they
can find just the right job. Workshops are at the Desert Foothills
Library on Mondays, October 6, 20 and 27 at 9:30 am and Thursday,
October 9 at 4:30 pm. Register or inquire at
[email protected].
Resource and Education Advocacy
Expansion of Client Services
The Food Bank is embarking on an expansion of existing programs
to include mentoring clients through the some-times difficult
processes involved in moving forward. Forms that need filling out
are often voluminous and over-whelming. Volunteers are now being
sought to help cli-ents understand where to go and how to ask for
things like disability assistance, insurance, or food stamps, or
how to establish a working budget. We want to give our clients the
support they need to make a better life for themselves and their
families. If you can help, please contact the food bank at
480-488-1145 and volunteer to be a Mentor.
New Services for Clients Help to Sustain a Better Life
Greens ‘R’ Great Program Takes Root
The 3,000 families, seniors and individuals served by the
Foothills Food Bank and Resources Center will soon be able to reap
the benefits of having fresh, or-ganically grown and hand-picked
produce.
Greens‘R’Great will be a two-branched program. The first branch,
a unique garden structure adjacent to the food bank premises,
cur-rently under construction, will be a place for the customer
community to gather and help maintain the crops. The sec-ond branch
will provide con-tainer plants that may be tak-en home, grown, and
cared for by food bank clients. Both branches will be educational
and focus on teaching gardening and nutrition basics through
hands-on experience.
Assisting with moving Greens’R’Great forward are individuals and
businesses that have stepped forward with generous donations of
labor and materials, in-cluding: Cave Creek Building Supply, Elrod
Fence Company, Fortezza Custom Homes, Home Depot, Larsen
Excavation, Lowes, McKenzie Bros. Construc-tion, Russ Lyon
Sotheby’s Realty, Town of Cave Creek, Walmart, and the
Greens’R’Great steering commit-tee. We thank these sponsors so much
for helping our clients develop a sustainable source of healthy
food. The program will be launched this Fall.
Snack Packs Feed Children on Weekends
It’s hard to believe, isn’t it? There are children who benefit
from the free and reduced lunch program in our public schools, but
who are left without enough food on days they don’t attend school.
The Snack Pack program aims to provide preschool, grade school and
high school children in the Cave Creek and Deer Valley Unified
School Districts with food items to take home with them over the
weekends. We need $5.06 per week per child to fund this, and we
currently are helping 225 students per week for 40 weeks of school
attendance. Can your business or community club help support this
important program? Please call if you can help.
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To honor her father, who died in the World Trade Center attacks
on September 11, 2001, Deborah Koebler and her two school-age
children conduct-ed a food drive at the kids’ school at a
parent-teacher event, as well as at several local businesses in
Anthem. She has been doing a food drive each year in remembrance of
her father. This year Deb-orah collected almost 600 pounds of food
for Foot-hills Food Bank, as well as food for the food pantry at
St. Rose Catholic Church in Anthem. Her kids actively participated
in the drive and also partici-pated in delivering and weighing in
the food at the Food Bank.
Canyon Springs Wolves Collect Food for 9/11 Drive
What We Always Need Lunch soups, chunky soups Stew, chili Canned
tuna, chicken, spam, salmon Canned tomatoes, sauce, paste Pasta,
rice and potato sides Peanut butter and Jelly Sugar, flour Tea,
coffee Dried beans, Canned beans Diapers—sizes 5 and 6
Foothills Food Bank_____________________________
You Can Sponsor a Food Drive
One of the greatest assets of Foothills Food Bank is YOU. If you
belong to a church, a neighborhood organization, a Country Club, or
a fraternal organization, or even at your place of em-ployment if
appropriate, consider sponsoring a food drive. It is really easy to
do, and we will provide all the assistance neces-sary. All you need
to do is contact Dave Newman, our food drive coordinator, at
[email protected] or 480.495.7721.
If you want to contact Dave to discuss the possibilities, please
do!
Food Drive in Remembrance of September 11, 2001
Deborah Koebler and Children Deliver the Goods
Come Shred with us! The Central Arizona Chapter of Enrolled
Agents – tax professionals (CACEA) is teaming up with the Foothills
Food Bank to provide FREE shredding services in re-turn for a
donation to the Food Bank. On Saturday, November 8, from 10 am to 2
pm, a shredder will be located at 37420 N. Cave Creek Road (parking
lot of CLS Cycle) in Cave Creek to accept your paper piles. Both
monetary and food donations will be accepted, and donor receipts
will be given. If you have any questions, call the Food Bank at
480-488-1145.
mailto:[email protected]
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This year, Hilary Sohm, Assistant Director and teacher at the
Quality Montessori Campus in Cave Creek, took a unique approach to
conducting a food drive. Students in grades 1-3 conducted a food
drive for the Foothills Food Bank, with over 300 students
participating. To cap off their successful event and to take
ad-vantage of their proximity to our facility in Cave Creek, the 28
students who were organizers of the drive, along with their parents
and teachers, put their collection in Flexible Flyers and other
wheeled vehi-cles and hauled them to the Food Bank in a wagon train
procession. When everyone arrived, they lined up and each group
pulled their wagons into the re-ceiving area to have their
collection weighed.
Wagons Ready to Roll
Food Bank volunteers were delighted to assist the children in
the process. Once all the food was weighed in, the children were
given a tour of the facility by Executive Director Pam
DiPietro.
After the children took the tour and asked all of their
questions, they hauled their empty wagons back to the school. ..job
well done.
Pam Gives a Tour
“Based on the feedback from the children and parents, having the
children actively participate in the delivery of the food they
collected and seeing how the food bank operates was a very
meaningful and enriching ex-perience, “ Sohm indicated. “Everyone
was even more excited and interested to have participated after
com-pleting the process.” The drive was a great success, with 790
pounds of food donated to the Foothills Food Bank on behalf of the
parents and students.
_____________________________Foothills Food Bank
Wagons, Ho!
Wagon Train Food Drive by Quality Montessori of Cave Creek
Wagons Empty — Food Bank Shelves Full
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Foothills Food Bank_________________________________
Family Fun – Beautiful Cars and Venue—Donations for the Food
Bank October 18
The 4th Annual Tatum Ranch Golf Club Car Show will be held on
Saturday, October 18, 2014 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.. This event
will feature exotics/sports cars, muscle cars, classics and hot
rods of all makes and models from across the metro area. Prizes
will be awarded for the winner in each class plus Best in Show and
Peoples Choice awards. “Goody bags” will be provided to the first
150 registrants. Admission for Partici-pants and Spectators is a
requested donation for the Foothills Food Bank. The day’s events
also include mu-
sic and a 50/50 raffle to benefit the Food Bank. Food and drinks
may be purchased at the golf club throughout the day. Whether a
participant or spectator, check out the web site, have some fun,
and support the Foothills Food Bank. Register online at:
www.tatumranchcarshow.com or call Nissa at the golf club at
480-585-2399. Last year’s event brought 150 cars, and we expect
more this year. Register early to secure your spot! Tatum Ranch
Golf Club is located at 29888 N. Tatum Ranch Drive, Cave Creek, AZ
85331
So Many Ways to Have Fun and Help at the Same Time! Join Us for
Scheduled Events
Ticket Fore Charity Golf Championship October 29—November 2
The 2014 Charles Schwab Cup Championship’s Tickets Fore Charity
is a way for you to see the PGA Professional Tour at the beautiful
Desert Mountain Club in Scottsdale and also help the Foothills Food
Bank. When you purchase the $20 Spectator tickets for the event,
you get to see the golf tournament, and the Food Bank gets to keep
the cost of the ticket. The Charles Schwab Foundation is donating
the $20 to the Food Bank if you purchase the ticket from us or
designate the Foothills Food Bank as your charity of choice. There
are several ways you can obtain the tickets: call the Food Bank,
charge the tickets over the phone, and we will mail them to you;
send a check for the tickets to Foothills Food Bank, PO Box 715,
Carefree, AZ 85377 and we will mail the tickets; or go to
www.schwabcuptfc.com and order the tickets. (Note: By purchasing
the tickets directly from the food bank,
you save the cost of shipping.)
http://www.tatumranchcarshow.comhttp://www.schwabcuptfc.com
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Empty Bowls Event October 17
The 13th annual Empty Bowls event is set for the Carefree
Amphitheater on Friday, October 17 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. This
event features hand-made bowls, good food and auction items, and
100% of the pro-ceeds benefit the Foothills Food Bank. For a
minimum $15 donation, you get a hand-made, one-of-a-kind bowl and
the lunch to go with it. What a great deal! This event is one of
the primary sources of income for the Food Bank and also shows off
the artistic wares of bowl makers such as Carole Perry of Laughing
Glass, the event’s dedicated chairperson for the last 14 years.
Food, linens and other support goodies are provided by Carefree
Resort, and bowls and auction items are donated by artists in the
Sonoran Arts League. As you can tell from the crowd in the picture
below, it is a great idea to come early to get the bowl of your
choice, line up for the auction, en-joy the food, and most of all,
support the Empty Bowls mission to feed those who need help feeding
themselves. Come early for the best bowl-ing in town!
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Cave Creek Wicked—Halloween Fun For the fifth year, the
Foothills Food Bank and Resource Center will partici-pate in Cave
Creek Wicked, Arizona’s only all day, all night Halloween event.
From 11 am to 4 pm during the daytime portion of the event, the
Food Bank will feature fun, interactive activities at our Cave
Creek and Hid-den Valley Roads location, including:
Horse costume contest Bounce house Kids’ arts and crafts Rural
Metro fire truck Maricopa County Sheriffs Department vehicles
Bring your friends, family and animals to experience the
fun!
___________________________________Foothills Food Bank
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Everyone needs a helping hand sometimes.
S E P T E M B E R , 2 0 1 4 N E W S L E T T E
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The Foothills Food Bank and Resource Center provides emergency
food, financial assistance and other life necessities and resources
to individuals and families in the desert foothills, which
encompasses a 180-square mile area that includes Black Canyon City,
Cave Creek, Carefree, Anthem, Desert Hills, New River, Rio Verde,
north Scotts-dale and north Phoenix. As indicated in this
newsletter, we are part-nering with others and working together in
our communities to pro-vide needed services to help our clients
succeed in becoming self-supporting. Donations of funds and goods
are vitally important in helping to fulfill our mission. As you see
from the statistics on page 2, we need to make up for food
shortages substantially, especially throughout the summer months.
Please use the form below to send a donation any time. We sincerely
appreciate your support.
ARIZONA CHARITABLE GIVING PROGRAM It is never too early to be
thinking about giving, especially when your donation comes back to
you 100-fold. Show your support for the Foothills Food Bank AND
reduce your Arizona tax bill with a tax credit. You will receive a
FULL TAX CREDIT for the amount you donate. For more information,
visit www.revenue.state.az, or call 1-800-843-7196. Please complete
the form below and mail it, along with your check payable to the
Foothills Food Bank, to P.O. Box 715, Care-free, AZ 85377.
Foothills Food Bank 2014 Charitable Organization Tax Credit
Donation Form
Name
________________________________________________________________________________________
Last First M.I.
Address_______________________________________________________________________________________
(We need your address so that we may send you a letter of receipt.)
City___________________________________ Zip Code __________ Amount
Enclosed ___________________ Maximum donation is $400 for a married
couple; $200 if single, head of household or married/filing
separately
2014 Board of Directors
President Chuck Weirauch Vice President Ken Jones Secretary Gina
Durbin Treasurer Dave Flatt Directors Tim Aikin Glenn Ford Jacki
Jobe Robin Kilbane Cathie Rosenbaum Krista Walker Sharon White
Executive Director Pam DiPietro
