Roadrunner Food Bank — Edgewood, July 23

July 22, 2009

Chuck Ring Edgewood News Plus, food/feeding , , , 1 Comment

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Hello Everyone-

I hope this e-mail finds you all happy and healthy.  I just wanted to let everyone know about a project that I’ve been working on and need your help to spread the word to everyone you know.  Several of us have be given the opportunity to bring a food pantry to Edgewood.  Roadrunner Food Bank is selling us the food and we will distribute it on July 23rd from 5:00-7:00 pm to anyone needing help.  I’ve attached the flier.  If you know of anyone that might benefit from this program, please let them know.  I’m also asking for help passing the flier out or distributing it to businesses or churches.  I won’t be able to hit every church or business and I know they will be a valuable resource in reaching families that can benefit from the pantry. This month, we will have enough food to feed 100 families.

A little bit about the program:
We are buying food for $.05 a pound.
$125 will buy 2500 pounds of food, allowing 50 families to receive 50 pounds of food each.
There are no income restraints-anyone needing the food is welcome.
All donations will go back into buying food from Roadrunner Food Bank.

Examples Of Food

Examples Of Food

I’ve attached some pictures from last month showing the amount of food

Food Ready For Distribution

Food Ready For Distribution

delivered by Roadrunner.

Results from last month:

89 families were served.

There were 334 people in those 89 households.

We also had 20+ volunteers-the pantry wouldn’t have been successful without their help.

Vanguard Mortgage, Prudential Sandia and the Howard/Long family are the gracious sponsors this month and Liberty Square has once again offered their space for the event.
If anyone is interested in helping by either volunteering their time or sponsoring the event, please contact me.  My phone number is 281-5364.

Have a wonderful week and thank you for your help,
Robin Prudencio

Renee Willes

Jeana Spindle

Food Pantry Info For July 23, 2009

Food Pantry Info For July 23, 2009

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The Dream Was … Perhaps Still Is

July 22, 2009

Chuck Ring State/National Politics, United States, area events/meeting, government relations , , , , , 2 Comments

by Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009)

Quote Freely From The Article – Leave The Pseudonym Alone

This story is taken in part from an article published by BBC News (Online)

Esperanto was to be a international language of hope and if zealous proponents continue their pursuit, perhaps it will develop and become so, even if it is more than a century past due. That has been the wish and the plan ever since Esperanto first came into the mind of a gentleman from Poland.

Dr Ludwig Zamenhof

Dr Ludwig Zamenhof

This year devotees of Esperanto celebrate the 150th birthday anniversary of Dr Ludwig Lazar Zamenhof (1859-1917) who is identified as the father of Esperanto. A book written by Zamenhof, Doktor Esperanto, to reflect the name given the language and the hope of the originator, i.e., that it would help to bring individuals, then groups and finally entire diverse people together, helped to spread the language intially. The basic Esperanto language contained just 900 words, but could be easily expanded through utilization of suffixes and prefixes and was derived through words in the Romanesque, Germanic and Slavic languages.

Esperanto speakers believe it would be difficult for other Esperanto afficiandos not be accepted into a group of  established speakers, no matter how diverse their origins, as they all share the common background of the language. While I wish the speakers of common languages hope and attainment of other benefits supposedly brought by a common language, I’m afraid there is no guarantee that such would be the case.

For the most part, England has shared a common language for a while now. Yet, they can be the the rowdiest of the rowdy … witness their parliamentary deliberations and their soccer games. An infusion of folks from former colonies of Great Britain has helped to dilute the pool of English speakers, perhaps mostly through the design of  religious groups or maybe in more innocuous ways.

The United States of America, although populated by legal and illegal immigrants has for years settled in to be an English speaking nation, perhaps by benign design, if for no other reason. Yet, there is more contentiousness in our government, more disputes among our ordinary people and certainly, more animosity between the major political parties than might have been at the Tower of Babel .   To put it succinctly, our English common language just makes it extra easy to argue, fuss and fight and to separate ourselves into English speaking boxes.

English has not and Esperanto can not bring us hope of civility and union of purpose. But, I do find the idea of being an Esperanto speaker to be intriguing … maybe someday?

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