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1. Cupcakes for a great cause2. Farewell to Viola Abbitt3.
Volunteers needed4. Healthy Choices: Food Pantry Demo
5. FOCUS Summer Worship Returns6. Gardening in a Bucket Heads to
Albany
Family Shelters7. Advocacy Opportunity
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FOCUS AlertMay 3, 2013
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1. Cupcakes
4. Healthy Choices Food Pantry Demo
5. FOCUS Summer Worship Returns!
In the mood for a delicious cupcake?Come out and support FOCUS
at the Cupcake Tasting fundraiser.
Information below:
2. Farewell to Viola AbbittViola Abbitt leaves FOCUS after an
8
month internship with FOCUS through her
studies at Meadville Lombard Theological
School. Vee as most people at FOCUS
know her, has been a bright presence in
the lives of many people connected to
FOCUS. Vees contributions have been
enormous. She has participated in the
breakfast programs, the food pantry, or-
ganization of service fairs, creation of a
prayer wall for breakfast guests,
community outreach, and beyond.
3. Volunteers Needed
Cornell Cooperative Extensions Ruth Steel demonstrates
cooking
skillet tuna casserole - using ingredients from the interfaith
food pantry.
Seventeen families (including Gerald Fordham, pictured)
taste-tested and
took home the recipe. Later this month CCE will be cooking up
healthy
French Toast.
We wish you the
very best Vee!
As FOCUS enters the warmer months of the year, were also
preparing for
our summer programming. If youve been thinking about getting
involved
or volunteering for the first time at a FOCUS program, give it a
try! All are
welcome.
Gardening in a Bucket
Gardening in a Bucket provides Food Pantry guests with the tools
and supplies
they need to grow their own vegetables. Volunteers needed to
assist guests in
assembling their own take-home bucket during pantry hours. Any
time slot be-
tween 10-1pm. Contact Becca for more info:
[email protected]
Breakfast Express
A buffet-style breakfast for our neighbors. Volunteers needed
Tuesday and
Wednesday mornings, 7-
8:45 AM. Contact Beth for more info:[email protected]
The Community Harvest Garden
Volunteer for this project and get your vitamin D as well as the
fun of gardening
and the satisfaction of growing vegetables for a worthy cause!
Produce goes to
the FOCUS Interfaith Food Pantry. Contact
[email protected]
443-
0460
Share Grow Volunteer
JULY 7 Emmanuel Baptist Church
AUGUST 4
Trinity United Methodist Church
SEPTEMBER 1 First Presbyterian
- ALL SERVICES BEGIN 9:30 AM -
6. Gardening in a Bucket heads toAlbany Family Shelters
During May and June FOCUS staff and volunteers head out to
Marillac
and Schuyler Inn (shelters for families experiencing
homelessness) to
engage all the children in an art & horticultural
project.
Everything from choosing containers, painting pots, planting
tomato and
pepper seedlings, to learning about photosynthesis and
hydration. When
families transition to permanent housing, the kids take their
garden with
them. Volunteers are welcome please call the FOCUS office for
times
and locations: 443-0460.
6. Advocacy Opportunity
New York State should raise the minimum wage for tip workers to
thesame level as other workers. Presently, most tip workers in NYS
re-ceive a minimum wage of69% of other workers.
Twice as many restaurant workers qualify for food stamps / SNAP
ben-efits compared to other workers. 88% of all tip workers are
over theage of 20 and 72% are female.
FOCUS Advocates Meetings: Please join us!May 8, 8am:Albany
County Executive Dan McCoyto meet and greet at Breakfast
Express.
May 9, 11:30 am: Meeting with Assemblywoman PatFahy.For more
information, contact FOCUS at
443-0460 [email protected]
Federal Farm Bill: Action Alert
Access to nutritious food, support ofbeginning farmers,
conservationallof these are linked to the federalFarm Bill, and yet
Congress has letopportunity after opportunity slip by to
pass a fair Farm Bill and addressthese injustices.
Did you know? Tip workers inrestaurants and elsewhere werenot
included in the recentminimum wage bill that passed
the state legislature.
Call your representatives today and tell them to sign-on
asco-sponsors to important marker bills. Click here to look up your
repand find out if they have co-sponsored the bill.
Read more about the bills here:
http://www.hungeractionnys.org/?page_id=2556
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