Stories for Community Service
Pets of the week
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Omar: 458824 Ormar is all muscle and a giant heart! He’s a 5 year old neutered pit bull and is looking for love and a home where he can get lots of play time! Omar loves to go for walks and is very treat motivated. He would do best in a home where he can work on his training and learn new tricks. He already knows how to ‘sit’. Omar does seem to have some allergies that cause the pads of his paws to swell. This will need to be monitored and hopefully his new family can find the cause and get him on a special diet.. Come meet this handsome boy today!
Meino: 458723 This pet of the week is a true kitty Casanova. Meino is a 2 year old black tabby with white. He’s a neutered male and would love a home in time for Valentine’s day. Meino came to the shelter as a stray and is now hanging out in our new Petunia Louise Community Cat Room. He LOVES napping in the window seat and people watching. He’s very playful and very affectionate. He can get a little rough at times when he plays and would do best in a home with older children. Come meet this handsome man today!
Contact The Humane Society for Tacoma & Pierce County, (253) 383-2733 for more information. You can now see all shelter pets online.
AD: Tacoma/Pierce County Habitat for Humanity Changing Lives Luncheon
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Emergency Food Network receives $15,000 from Harlequin Books
Posted by | CommentsAfter more than 111,000 online votes and 7,800 Facebook shares, the 2012 recipients of the eighth annual Harlequin More Than Words award are Mindy Atwood of Hilliard, Ohio, who runs Patches of Light, a nonprofit organization where anonymous angels pay the rent for parents of desperately ill children; Helen McGovern of Tacoma, Washington, who oversees Emergency Food Network, which distributes food to 67 food banks, meal sites and shelters, including those with health restrictions; and Sally Spencer of Toronto, Ontario, who manages a mentoring program that rescues at-risk children.
Lakewood Boys & Girls Club to take over the Lakewood Ram
Posted by | CommentsThe Lakewood Boys & Girls Club will take over the Ram Restaurant & Brewery from 4pm to 9pm for a fundraiser that will see 10% of all proceeds during this time donated to the Lakewood Boys & Girls Club.
The money goes to support programs and to allow 270 kids a day to be exposed to a safe, positive place to go after school, where they can have fun and build relationships with caring adults and other youth! Please come out and enjoy some food and support the youth in Lakewood as they strive to reach their own GREAT FUTURES!!!
The Ram Restaurant is located at 10019 59th Ave. Lakewood, WA 98499
For questions or more information contact Erik Kramer (253) 502-4661 or kramere@bgcsps.org
AD: Tacoma/Pierce County Habitat for Humanity Changing Lives Luncheon
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Boys & Girls Club to take over The Ram
Posted by | CommentsBy Erik Kramer, Director
The Lakewood Boys & Girls Club will takeover The Ram Restaurant & Brewery (in Lakewood) on Tuesday, January 31st. From 4-9 p.m., the Ram in Lakewood will donate 10% of all proceeds to the Lakewood Boys & Girls Club. So, lets try to fill this place. Please, come on out enjoy some great food and drinks and support our youth at the Lakewood Boys & Girls Club.
Rotary Club of Clover Parks moves meetings to Carrs in Lakewood
Posted by | CommentsExecutive seeks applicants for Ethics Commission vacancy
Posted by | CommentsThe Pierce County Executive's Office is accepting applications to fill an expired Ethics Commission position. The citizen commission is responsible for promoting and upholding ethical conduct in Pierce County government.
Applicants must be registered to vote in the State of Washington, reside in Pierce County, and licensed to practice law in Washington State. Ethics Commissioners also may not hold or campaign for elective office, be an officer of any political party or political committee, be a lobbyist, assist a lobbyist, or employ a lobbyist.
Carr's Community Takeover is Jan. 24
Posted by | CommentsThe event was moved up a week because of inclement weather
Volunteers needed for Pierce County’s annual homeless survey
Posted by | CommentsOrganizations that help the homeless are seeking volunteers to gather census data of people who are homeless or are on the verge of it in Pierce County.
The annual survey - which is in its sixteenth year - is scheduled for Jan. 26-27. The Pierce County Department of Community Connections and the Tacoma-Pierce County Coalition to End Homelessness seek more than 100 volunteers to survey individuals and families at meal sites, day shelters, health clinics and on the streets. The Homeless Network is accepting donations of personal items that will be distributed over the two-day period.
Dupont blanket drive for the homeless Jan. 18-20
Posted by | CommentsThe DuPont Fire Department is partnering with the DuPont Lions on a Blanket Drive for the homeless shelter. Please bring your gently used or new blankets to the Fire Dept at 1780 Civic Drive, DuPont. Last day of the Drive is January 20th.
More information is available here.
If you have questions, please email Heidi Wiser athwiser@ci.dupont.wa.us
Lakewood Rotarians repair sign
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Members of Lakewood Rotary braved cold temperatures Wednesday morning to fix the "Welcome to Lakewood" sign at the intersection of 127th and Nyanza. Steve Mazoff, Duncan Cook, Greg Horn, Richard Simmons, Ted Wier and Lowell Johnson (from left) repaired the sign (originally erected by Lakewood Rotary) which suffered damage at the hands of a vehicle.
Caring for Kids Happy Hearts Dinner Auction
Posted by | CommentsCaring for Kids Needs Your Help!
The Happy Hearts Dinner Auction is just around the corner. February 11th at the McGavick Center at Clover Park Technical College at 5:00 P.M. we will be holding our annual fundraiser to help kids in need in our community. Remember we are an all volunteer organization, so all the money we raise goes directly to help the kids, as we work through our local schools and organizations. We provide school supplies, clothing, hygiene products, food, books and ready to learn materials.
At the end of year, Emergency Food Network (EFN) Director Helen McGovern looked at EFN’s food distribution numbers and was able to quantify the state of the emergency food system in 2011. Our emergency food system had surpassed its 2010 total by more than 2 million pounds. For all of 2011, area food programs had distributed 19,396,885 pounds of food. That translates to 15,517,664 meals, more than 1 million more meals than the prior year. Emergency Food Network provides 80% of Pierce County’s emergency food.
The demand continues to increase, and EFN continues to keep pace with the demand. “We are ending the year at EFN with hope, as we faced the largest challenges we have encountered in the near 30 years of Emergency Food Network,” says McGovern.
Area food programs see an average of 147,000 visitors each month. Demand for emergency food in our community increased 43% from 2008 to 2010, and then grew an additional 6% this year. Total visits to food banks, meal sites and shelters topped 1,285,000 visits, an increase of 74,000 over 2010.
Bring hope this season and year
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January is the start of a new year and a renewed effort to help find the cure for cancer. Won’t you join us at our next Relay Rally and see for yourself what this fight is all about. A meeting will be held January the 17 (6:30-7:30 pm) at the Little Church on the Prairie.
Christmas Day a little merrier thanks for LASA, sponsors
Posted by | CommentsBy Leah Henderson, LASA
On Christmas Day 75 families served by LASA woke up to a merrier Christmas thanks to the generosity of our community. Gifts ranged from sending a family with a life threatening illness to Great Wolf Lodge for the weekend to providing a gas voucher to help a dad get to work. We had enough goodies that we were able to open our doors at the last minute to help people in need besides our usual clientele. We want to thank the following companies for placing Christmas trees and mini-giving trees for the pubic to be able to grab a child's wishing star and make their Christmas Dream come true. Read More→
A busy year for Caring for Kids
Posted by | CommentsBy Diane Formoso
Caring for Kids has had a very busy year. In Clover Park School District alone 71% of the kids are on free and reduced lunch with 95% of that number being free. Being an all volunteer organization we work every day helping our kids in need. Since the first day of school in September, working directly with school staff, we have filled 723 clothing bank orders. The year end total is 1,423 orders for 2011. In August we held the Ready to Learn Fair and participated in two additional events at Springbrook Park and Tillicum Community Center. We helped 2,441 kids with school supplies, backpacks and hygiene products. In 2011with the Ready to Learn Fair and the school supply bank orders we helped a total of 3,485 kids in need with school supplies.
