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Hauswirth & Sons Insurance - Lacey Champions for a Cause!
There isn't an easier way than this if you want to help the Lacey Food Bank. Hauswirth
& Sons Insurance is donating $5.00 to the Lacey Food Bank for every referral they get from YOU!
Not only that but there are some extra perks waiting for you too .... like gift cards... or maybe you could even win a Kindle
Fire! Visit their February Newsletter, The Hauswirth Report...PAGE 3... for all the details and then start telling your
friends and family to give them a call for the best quotes on the best coverage to meet their particular needs! Check
out both these links...TODAY!
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Do you have a couple of hours a month to help the Lacey Food Bank find, complete and
submit grant applications for corporate and charitable funding? As an on-line, on-going project,
this is a work from home opportunity, perfect for the detail oriented. Are you a responsible college student looking
to fulfill community service obligations? Or perhaps you're someone who finds our regular volunteer schedule
to be in conflict with your personal availability. Recently retired? Don't let those business skills go to
waste! Familiarity with grant writing is a plus! Please call 609-242-2848 and leave a message for Co-chair
Laura or email lauracaroccia@msn.com for more information. Thanks!!
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THE LACEY FOOD BANK NEEDS PEANUT BUTTER!
PLEASE
USE THE BINS AT SHOPRITE TO LEAVE YOUR DONATION
or stop
by the Food Bank at 102 Station Drive, Forked River,
Monday-Friday
from 10 am to Noon
Many thanks!
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“LIKE” BAYSIDE DENTISTRY FOR THE
LACEY FOOD BANK
Are you on Facebook? Have friends and family who live locally who are? Then this is the easiest opportunity
for you to help the Lacey Food Bank without it costing you a dime or more than a minute of your time. FROM TODAY UNTIL FEBRUARY 29TH BAYSIDE DENTISTRY IN BARNEGAT WILL DONATE $1.00 FOR EVERY "LIKE" TO THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE TO BENEFIT AREA FOOD BANKS.
Log into Facebook and go
to BAYSIDE DENTISTRY. At the TOP of the page CLICK on the “LIKE” button. That's all you have to do! For every LIKE they
get, the Lacey Food Bank will share in a cash donation with other area food banks.
Time is limited so get to "Liking" BAYSIDE DENTISTRY ... TODAY!
.....and pass it on to your
family and friends in the 609!!
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.151677578227006.31894.151641608230603#!/pages/Bayside-Dentistry/151641608230603?sk=wall
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A Christmas Thank You from the Lacey Food Bank Kids Committee
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmastime. Now we find that the JOY we give to others comes back to us a hundredfold. The Lacey
Food Bank Kids Christmas 2011 was a heartwarming and overwhelming success...THANKS
TO YOU!!
So many gifts are left anonymously. So many more are group
gifts. We wish there was a way to know and acknowledge everyone! Please know that we are grateful to each and every one who
shared the caring message of Christmas.
THANKS TO YOU!!
May JOY be your gift during this Season of Miracles and your Blessing
all year through!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
LFB Kids Committee
( In this photo, LFB Kids Committee volunteers assist the
Moms in picking out the 'just right' gifts
for their children.)
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A Message from Lacey Food Bank Co-Chairman, Pete Peters:
First off, let me say to
all of you how very grateful and thankful Guy, Dick, Laura, and myself are for all of your hard work and loyalty to support
our Lacey Food Bank. So many of you work hard behind the scenes, and we want you to know we went over the top this month
with our largest distribution ever. Its becoming a real challenge trying to keep up with the growing number of clients due
to the poor economical status of our country, but you folks stepped up to the plate.
Along with the LFB Kids Committee headed by Laura Carroccia, and our LFB
workers, we were able to help a record 204 families with not only clothing for kids, toys and other gifts, but an additional
$25 dollars added to the regular $10 Shop Rite cards, cookies baked by the Girl Scouts
specially wrapped and many extras including turkeys and hams to our neighbors in need.
Annual Volunteers Christmas Party
Wednesday,
January 4, noon
Captains
Inn on East Lacey Rd
Secondly,
I want to remind all of you who haven't signed up yet, of our annual Volunteers Christmas Party on Wed Jan 4, noon, at
the Captains Inn on East Lacey Rd. There will be a
choice of 3 meals and a few nice door prizes. So far we've got 44 folks and guests attending and we'd like to see 100%
of our 96+ roster. You can pay the $10 charge at the door, but we need to know by December 30 how many attendees we have. Give me a call at 609-242-0806.
Again,
our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all of you. Have a wonderful Christmas
and Holiday. See you at the party!
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PLEASE DON'T LEAVE DONATIONS OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING
The generosity of our Lacey Community is what keeps the Lacey Food
Bank going and growing. We would ask however that you not leave your donations outside the building. We try to
have a volunteer on site Monday, through Friday from 10 AM - Noon. If we are closed, please
call 609-242-2848 and we will be happy to make other arrangements. Food donations left outside overnight or over
a weekend are subject not only to the weather but also are attraction for pests and animals. Many times, these
donations must be thrown out.
Please help us by contributing donations other than food to the
appropriate charities.We do not have the storage space or the manpower to handle clothing or other household
donations at this time.
Thanks for your support!! Laura
Caroccia, Co-Chairman LFB
IMPORTANT NOTICE
"Every year about this time, a solicitation comes from the Monmouth Ocean
Food Bank, directed at our schools and youth organizations. First, we would like to say that Monmouth Ocean Food Bank
is the "mother" food bank for food pantry & soup kitchens in both counties and we value our alliance with them.
The Lacey Food Bank benefits from this association by being able to buy pantry food at a reduced cost, and to receive
free USDA food that is distributed to us utilizing MOFB as a clearing house.
That said, what most people in Lacey do not realize is that when
you hold a food drive for them here in Lacey, the food is sent all the way up to Monmouth
County. When we receive the monthly list of available foods , we order & BUY
the food from them at a (sometimes) slightly lower cost than from the supermarket.
Then Monmouth Ocean turns around and delivers it back down to Lacey to us.
This hardly makes sense, and forces us to purchase the same food that you could have given to us directly.
Food drives held within our Lacey community are critically
important to us in meeting our commitment to those who need food.
I would ask you to consider this
when making your decisions to donate to out of town food drives. Please consider "doing your little bit of good"
right here in Lacey Township. Use the bins at Shop Rite or drop your donation off at the Lacey Food Bank, Monday to
Friday from 10 am-Noon. Those hours not convenient? Give us a call, we'll work something out. The
volunteers and the clients of the Lacey Food Bank would really appreciate it. "
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