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Post by Barb on Nov 8, 2009 1:59:32 GMT -5
A luncheon will be held at A Taste of Portugal on Tuesday, November 10 (11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.) to raise money for the RSVP Giving Store. (The Giving Store provides an opportunity for Flagler County children - grades K through 5 - from qualifying families to select and receive a brand new gift to give to each member of their household for the holidays.) The menu for the luncheon is a buffet with Chicken Marsala, Roasted Pork, Fish Filet in Lemon Sauce, Rice, Roasted Potatoes, and Mixed Vegetables. Also included in the price of $20. per ticket (2 for $35.) is a salad, dessert, beverage, and gratuity. There will be door prizes and a 50/50. Bring a new, unwrapped gift for the Giving Store (no food or clothing, please) and exchange it for a raffle ticket. Come alone or invite your friends and neighbors to join us! Everyone is welcome at what is sure to be an enjoyable luncheon! Call our office (597-2950) for more information or to reserve your tickets.
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Post by KathyInArkansas on Nov 8, 2009 8:04:29 GMT -5
A luncheon will be held at A Taste of Portugal on Tuesday, November 10 (11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.) to raise money for the RSVP Giving Store. (The Giving Store provides an opportunity for Flagler County children - grades K through 5 - from qualifying families to select and receive a brand new gift to give to each member of their household for the holidays.) The menu for the luncheon is a buffet with Chicken Marsala, Roasted Pork, Fish Filet in Lemon Sauce, Rice, Roasted Potatoes, and Mixed Vegetables. Also included in the price of $20. per ticket (2 for $35.) is a salad, dessert, beverage, and gratuity. There will be door prizes and a 50/50. Bring a new, unwrapped gift for the Giving Store (no food or clothing, please) and exchange it for a raffle ticket. Come alone or invite your friends and neighbors to join us! Everyone is welcome at what is sure to be an enjoyable luncheon! Call our office (597-2950) for more information or to reserve your tickets. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This sounds yum yum yum!!! I hope there is a huge turnout...what a wonderful thing this orgranization is doing.
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Post by Barb on Nov 8, 2009 11:33:26 GMT -5
It gets bigger every year. And the lady that posted the above (I copied her post from CC) is a retired fireball! She is in charge of the Giving Store and her entire year....shopping, rummage sales, sign ups, securing the building, the entertainment, the food, the gifts, the gift wrap, the volunteers, is devoted to this yearly event. Last year, I believe there were about 1500 kids that went through the store. They are allowed one gift for every immediate family member. I would estimated it works out to about 4 gifts per child. So that's 6000 gifts that have to be on hand and volunteers to help shop and to wrap those 6000 gifts! And it's so organized...they give them "blocks of time" to come in....one "shopper" assists all the kids from one family to make sure there are no duplicates, and the gifts are always nice, not junky. There is a group through Flagler Volunteers called the "Blanketeers" who make these beautiful blankets for the infirmed, and for the hospitals and hospice and they make several for the Giving Store, too. Anyway...this lady has a lot of "helpers" who shouldn't go unnoticed either and also Suzy who works very hard for this event too.
It's held in a big hall...the Cattleman's Hall that is just perfect for the event. It has a kitchen and then the main area is divided into three rooms. The "waiting" area where the kids visit with Santa, color and have a snack. Then they pass through the wrapping room to the shopping area which is huge. The gifts in the shopping area are organized by adults (a male and female section) then children, sorted by sex and age. After the shopping..you take the child back to the gift wrap room after making sure his sibling isn't in there!
I love to shop with the kids. It's so much fun to see what gifts they choose and most of the time they give the gifts a lot of thought.
Last year, I shopped with a little boy who must have been wearing hand me down shoes. They were about three sizes too big and he was just sloshing around in them. He was very choosy about who got what and very serious about his shopping. I wish I could have found out who he was. I would love to have been able to get him some shoes.
I think Christmas takes on an even bigger dimension for these kids when they can give gifts as well as receive them. Financially, most of their parents couldn't afford for them to do this, so this provides a wonderful means of allowing them to learn the joy of giving. And Christmas should be seen through the eyes of a child.....
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