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Service

Members, guests and recipients enjoyed a potluck luncheon on May 10, 2011 as we gathered to give away the funds we raised in 2010 and the proceeds from our 2011 Festival of Tables and Fashion.

Our members actively participate in, donate to, or collect items for various projects, including:

• Adopt-a-School
    Benefits Silverwood Elementary School,Concord
• A Friendly Place
    Items collect for a homeless women's shelter
• Blue Star Moms of Contra Costa County
     Benefits our armed forces serving abroad
• Box Tops for Education
     Benefits Silverwood Elementary School, Concord
• Campbell's UPC Codes Collection
     Benefits Tabernacle Baptist School, Concord
• Cell Phone Collection
     Benefits STAND (victims of domestic violence)
• Eye Glasses Collection
     Donated to the Lion's Club program
• Heifer International
     Provides animals for impoverished families worldwide
• Ink Cartridge Collection
     Benefits Futures Explored, center for developmentally disabled adults
• Pennies for Pines
     Benefits California's re-forestation program
• Prevent Blindness
     Pre-school children's vision screening, under the direction of Prevent Blindness of Northern California
• Read Across America Day
     Promotes reading; benefits Silverwood Elementary School, Concord
• SHARE/non-perishable food collection
     Self help project: food and resource education for low income families