CANNED
FOOD DRIVE
STANISLAUS COUNTY FAIR OPENING NIGHT
Stanislaus
County Fair opens Friday, July 16th at 5:00 pm. Mark
your calendar now to attend! Bring 2 cans of food for
the hungry & homeless and receive a $2.00 discount
coupon on your adult admission fee. Last
year we collected 1,220 lbs of canned food.
We challenge all our supporters to beat last
year's number. All
canned food is used for
our Daily Bread lunch program and Emergency
Food Box program. Please be generous and
help fill our shelves.
Volunteers are needed
to help collect food – we have several 2 hour shifts. Email
Maris, or call her at (209) 668-4853. Thank you to
the Modesto
Bee for their sponsorship of the opening day of the
fair.
PIE
CONTEST HELPS HUNGRY
The seventh annual All
American Apple Pie Contest is on Friday, July 16th at the
Stanislaus County Fairgrounds. Five judges will taste and
grade each pie for appearance, taste & texture of the
crust &
filling. During prior annual events USF has received 40
to 60 pies. After the contest, pies are served from
our lunch trucks to Turlock hungry & homeless. Dust
off those pie recipes and register before July 16th at
the Fairgrounds office (corner of Canal Dr & Broadway.
There is no entry fee). Event Sponsor, Dr. Dave Dubyak
of Dubyak Family Chiropractic, asks contestants
to bake two pies so we'll have plenty to share with
those in need. 1st prize is $100.00
and second prize is $50.00! For more information
contact the Fairgrounds at 668-1333 or Dubyak Family Chiropractic
at 668-1944.
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Touching
Lives
Making A Difference
Because of your faithful
support, USF Daily Bread Trucks served 27,041 meals
in May 2010.
In our Emergency
Food Box Program, 287 families (647 people)
were provided with a three-day, three meals per day supply
of food equaling 5,823 meals.
Last quarter, 301 adults
and 87 children were served in our clothes closet. Did
you know that USF also provides a laundry and shower facility,
and a postal mail station for the homeless in Turlock?
We thank all of you for
your faithful support of our organization.
 For
more information,
please contact:
Marie Assali, 209.765.6889
or
Peggy Stepro, 209.620.2229.
For a look at the fun we
had at last year's event,
please visit our News page.
Feinstein Foundation Challenge
Many thanks to all who
donated money and food during March and April to help
build our share of the Feinstein Challenge Grant. Your
response to the challenge has been tremendous.
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USF HIGHLIGHTS THE TURLOCK SITE
The Turlock site is home to our administrative
staff: Director, Barbara, Operations Manager,
Maris, Accountant, Holly, Administrative Assistant,
Toni and our Receptionist, Paz. Eight hundred
meals a day are prepared in our kitchen for
the Turlock and Keyes/Ceres mobile lunch truck
routes by staff persons Cheryl and Falesoa, assisted
by community service workers and many
volunteers. Anita serves the homeless that use
the Homeless drop-in Center for showers and laundry. Through the Emergency
Box Program over two hundred Turlock residents who are in need of
more than just a daily lunch are assisted. We thank the dedicated group of
volunteers and community service workers who help prepare and distribute
the food boxes on the last Tuesday and Friday of each month. Staff person,
Betty assists clients in the Clothes Closet with help from volunteers and community
service workers who sort the clothes that are donated for the Clothes
Closet. In our warehouse, Russel keeps our trucks running, while Bill and
Ronnie are busy picking up food product that has been donated from local
businesses. We thank the volunteers who also help with this task. We
deeply appreciate all our hardworking staff and our many volunteers who
help us carry out our mission. We couldn’t do it without them. For more information
on how you can help, donate or take a tour of our facility and meet
our staff in person, please call 668-4853.
Our monthly newsletter is available online.
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Hunger
and Homelessness in California
4.3 Million
people experience hunger each year in
California, and an estimated 350,000 are homeless.
Today, 4.6 million
Californians, including
1.8 million children live in poverty.
A recent study
of 75 food and shelter providers in
California shows the situation is getting worse.
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July
Wish List
Our needs
include laundry
soap and 3 big bottles of shampoo per week
so we
can provide 100 to 150 showers to the less
fortunate. We also need travel-size bar
soap and all types of cleaning supplies, especially
shower cleaner.
Our clothes
closet is in need of Jeans, Jeans, Jeans especially
for men sizes 30 to 34 waist and very
large T-shirts, men's and women's socks and
underwear and shoes. We are
also in need of suitcases and duffel bags and
sheets of all sizes.
For our
Emergency Food Box Program we need plastic
grocery bags and egg cartons. Thank you
for your continued generosity.
YOUR
DONATIONS CAN BE BROUGHT TO 220 SOUTH BROADWAY,
TURLOCK.
All
donations are tax deductible.
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