Let us give all year ’round
Fundraiser donations top more than $17,000
FORT BRAGG » This is the last of a series of articles published since early December to promote the newspapers’ year- end “Season of Sharing’ fund drive to benefit the Fort Bragg Food Bank. Along the way, we’ve visited (virtually, this year) with staff members and volunteers, some new, some longtimers, and learned about the community members they so enjoy helping.
Although Thanksgiving and Christmas 2020 are now a memory, the Fort Bragg Food Bank needs our help year-round. The Food Bank has been feeding the hungry in our community since 1979. We can all help.
In a pre-pandemic concert in San Francisco a few years ago, singer and activist Joan Baez spoke for all of us: “Now is the time to be our brothers’ and sisters’ keeper. Now is the time to feed the hungry and clothe the naked. Now is the time for love … Now is the time to take on the larger forces of darkness.” This rings true now more than ever.
Each year, the generosity of Mendocino Coast communities is proven time and again; the 24th Annual Season of Sharing fundraising drive sponsored by the Fort Bragg Advocate-News and
The Mendocino Beacon to benefit the Food Bank garnered widespread support.
The money gathered during the Season of Sharing is used all year long by the Food Bank to help ensure that the coast’s most vulnerable citizens have enough food to feed themselves and their families.
This year, donations totaling $17,080.00 were received from: Anonymous, Orah I. Young, Meg Courtney, Deborah L. Holmer, Deborah Smith, David Hayes, Bonnie Neugebauer, Katharine Lee in honor of Charles and Jean Lee, George Dreaper, Shelley Volz, Brian Christman, Patricia Tilley in honor of Betty Stechmeyer, David Linkhart, CompuAccount, Anonymous, John and Dianne Skinner, Olivia Barrager, Janice and Stephen Walker, Joyce and Paul Cookenboo, Patricia Garvin, First Presbyterian Church, Stephen Gross, Nancy Kozak, Alice Einhoom, Janine Rhymes, Jayne Bush, Susan Holli Neidlinger, Kathrine Montgomery and Lynettee Parker, James Roberts, Nancy Severy, Anne Malmquist, Diane and Teresia Zadroga-Hasse, Marta Mackenzie, Susan Larsen, Holly and David Guggenheim, Boyd and Kathryn Hight, Jim and Sharon DiMauro, Scott Bartholomew, Rosemary Bartholomew, Jennifer Shipp and Heidi Kistner, Ariana and Josh MacDonald, Judith Bayer, Allison Paranka, Tom Rawlins, Holly Rawlins, Michelle and Nick Rawlins, Nancy Paranka, James Shipp, Dixie Shipp, Jeanette Boyer, Glass Beach Bed & Breakfast Inn (Nancy Cardenas and Richard Fowler), Fort Bragg Garden Club, Tom and Julee Estes, Margaret and Karl Kramp, Monica Steinisch and Phil Maloney, Liz Helenchild in memory of Sharon Valenti, Anonymous in memory of Betty Stechmeyer, Shawn E, Patricia Sinkay, Roslyn and Bruce Moore, Ed and Jo Schiro, Ben Schiro, Arthur Morely, Steven and Pritha Worthen, Marylinn Thorpe, Lynda Ross, Joanna Leary, Red’s Vintage Parts and Diana Corbin.
Thank you to ALL of the donors and, remember, donations can be made to the Food Bank year-round.
For more information, call 707-964-9404 or visit their website at fortbraggfoodbank.org.