Thanks, Paul, Frank and Igor, and all who looked at my snaps. They were taken for publicity in the local press, but I though I would inflict them on this group as well.
While I am the chair, and schedule the workers, my entire club participates in collecting contributions. We could probably find an easier way to raise the money, especially in years when the weather is not as mild as this one, but an important part of the project is to raise awareness in our community of the presence of the hungry and the homeless among us. [That is also one of my purposes in posting here. <G>] Our Rotary Club has other ways of combating hunger and homelessness, in our local community, in Nepal, and elsewhere, and, of course, Rotary International has many such programs throughout the planet. https://www.rotary.org/myrotary/en/rotary-no-child-should-ever-go-bed-hungry Thus endeth the sermonette. <G> Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's what is nice during the winter holidays season - people seem to feel > happier, sharing, helping, etc. ... even smiling more. > > The guy in the first photo looks a bit like George W. B., or, maybe, more > like one of W.'s impersonators (from SNL?). > You wrote he is a senator, isn't he? :-) > > Igor > > > > On Dec 27, 2015, at 8:51 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > >> >> For the past 15 years, I have been chair of our Rotary Club's "Holiday >> Happiness" program. We wear Santa hats, ring bells, and collect money >> at local strip malls for the local food bank and the local program for >> homeless women and children. >> >> Our prime location in outside the local liquor store, where folks seem >> to be more generous than elsewhere, especially when the neighborhood >> familily physician, the pastor of the larges church in our community, >> or our State Senator (pictured below) are on duty. >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18146637&size=lg >> >> We also work with local scouts, who work outside a pharmacy next to >> Dunkin Donuts, rather than the liquor store. (DD patrons seem to be >> more than Starbucks patrons, so we no longer collect there.) >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18146636&size=lg >> >> Dan Matyola >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
