Burien’s El Dorado West Retirement Community is playing Santa for the White Center Food Bank this month by placing a “Giving Tree” in their front lobby.
Everyone is invited to pick a card from the tree and purchase a gift or give cash donations for that person, then bring the gift back to be placed underneath [...]
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El Dorado West Giving To White Center Food Bank
How/Where To Help Area Needy Over Holidays
[From our sister site The B-Town Blog comes this story about how and where you can help needy neighbors in the White Center/Burien area this holiday season:]
Burien/Normandy Park Fire Department’s Lt. Inspector John Zilke is at it again!
As in years past, John is coordinating the very large and important Christmas Outreach Program in the Burien [...]
White Center-Area 5th Graders Help Food Bank
The video above (courtesy WCB Reader Hope Kerkof) shows how 24 students from the 5th grade class at the White Center-area’s Shorewood Christian School helped out the Burien-Highline Food Bank on Tuesday, Nov. 25th.
The 5th graders volunteered their time and helped hand out food at the Burien-Highline Food Bank in Burien. They came prepared [...]
“Turkeys N’Diapers” Raises Over $1,150!
Our “Turkeys N’Diapers” Fundraiser Saturday (Nov. 22nd) was a resounding success, with an impressive final tally of $1,170 in cash and food/baby item donations raised for the White Center Food Bank and WestSide Baby.
All of us here at the White Center Blog and B-Town Blogs send a huge THANKS to everyone who helped out!
Some details:
Cash [...]
VIDEO:Turkeys N’Diapers Fundraiser Goes ‘Til 4pm!
Our “Turkeys N’Diapers” fundraiser ends at 4pm today, and so far we’ve raised over $400 in both cash and food donations for both the White Center Food Bank and WestSide Baby!
Here’s a little video shot by Mark Neuman and featuring Bart “On the Street” Bryan as pitchman, along with WCB friend Steve Costanzo and Rick [...]
Shorewood Foursquare Church Food Drive Starts Nov. 13
[ November 13, 2008; ] When Shorewood Foursquare Church learned about the food shortage at the White Center Food Bank, they decided to take action and offer a Food Drive.
Sue Cross, Administrator for Shorewood Foursquare Church, explains:
“When we became aware of this food shortage crisis, we just had to get involved. We want to help get the word out [...]
White Center Food Bank Benefit Brings In $50K!
by Mark Neuman
The White Center Food Bank’s Harvest Dinner and Auction last Saturday (Oct. 18th) was “festive and well attended,” according to the Food Bank’s Volunteer and Resource coordinator Audrey Zemke.
The annual event was held at the Jerry Brockey Center at South Seattle Community College.
“We raised about $50,000,” Audrey said.
She reports this was down from [...]
EXCLUSIVE: Rat City Roller Girls Sterilize 16th Ave & The White Center Blog Is There
Story by Scoop Dum, Photos by Dee Vellup
The White Center Blog's Bart "On The Street" Bryan (left) lent a hand (and extendable grabbing thingy) to the Rat City Roller Girls as they cleaned up 16th Ave SW Saturday.
It was quite a day Saturday (Oct. 11th) when the White Center Blog’s own Bart “On the Street” [...]
White Center Food Bank Benefit Is Sat. Oct. 18th
[ October 18, 2008; 5:30 pm; ] In these tough and uncertain economic times, our friends at the White Center Food Bank would like to remind everyone of their upcoming Fourth Annual Harvest Dinner and Auction.
It’ll be Saturday, Oct. 18 at South Seattle Community College’s Brockey Center (map below).
“This Harvest Dinner and Auction is more important than ever for us,” said [...]
Help Food Banks With A Sunday Tree Gleaning
[ October 12, 2008; 2:00 pm; ] Sustainable Burien’s Food Pod is seeking volunteers for a “Tree Gleaning” this Sunday, Oct. 12th at 2pm.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Personally, we hadn't heard of "gleaning" relating to food before (pardon our ignorance folks but hey, at least we're honest) so we looked it up; here's how Wikipedia defines it:
Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops [...]
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