Bristol County Daily News

Every month I look forward to meeting new people that attend our gathering. We sit, we chat, we knit or crochet and we weave beautiful afghans for the homeless. This month is no different well maybe that we are working toward our 40th afghan. We have already delivered 29 afghans and during the past 2 months I have been given 8 afghans. I am about to finish my first and that well leaves us at the 40 mark!!!! We as a group have had a goal to deliver 50 afghans in a year I believe we will accomplish this goal. Maybe I should change it to 52 as a goal. That would be one afghan a week. Next year we will have to move that number up a little so that maybe we have 1 1/2 per week on average. I guess what I am saying it I am so happy to be part of this and all of you. For those who are thinking of coming this month and have not been before we welcome all with open arms we teach and have supplies and are happy to have you so please join in.

Tuesday 17 July 2007 At 6:30pm
Allen's Neck Friends Meetinghouse
Horseneck Road
Dartmouth, MA 02748

Go to www.allensneck.org for directions

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Sometimes my children give me the best ideas. Children tend to think in simple terms and well sometimes that's the best way. So here is the idea and I am going to email it to everyone I know and I hope they do the same. In this months Walgreen's flyer they have two items that are free after mail in rebate. Sanitary napkins and toothpaste. We do not think of this much but trust me if you can't afford food some how I don't think these things top the list but could you imagine being a 15 year old homeless girl and having your period and stuffing your underwear with toilet paper. This sound uncomfortable and stressful (wondering all day if you have leaked through). So on top of the free with rebate, the Sunday paper had coupons for the same toothpaste buy one get one free and a $2.00 off coupon for the sanitary napkins. This is what it comes down to for basically .41 cents the cost of the stamp and the time it takes you to buy the items you could donate two tubes of toothpaste and a box of sanitary napkins to a homeless shelter. Please everyone take the time and buy the items and send them to the homeless shelter.

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It is amazing that when you give the children a small idea the things they can come up with. I went to Sunday school armed with my four ideas to make simple and easy changes that can help people and help the world and asked the children if they could come up with an idea that they could do. Here is what they came up with: putting up posters at the schools, library, grocery store about wearing safety helmets when you ride your bike. Wearing seat belts. Collecting cans and using the money to help others. Cleaning up other peoples mess on the side of the road. Collecting money for the children's hospital. I think that the children are off to a good start. I hope that they will think about these projects and continue with all of them.

When you set your mind to it you start to realize that there are so many ways to help. See I volunteered to teach Sunday school this week and well it just so happens its on community service. I wanted to get the children's minds working. I wanted them to leave thinking I can do this. I want to do this. So my children and I went out back and cut down a bunch ( a lot) of grapevine so that the children could make wreaths, and I got a flyer from Walgreen's, and letters to marketing companies asking to removed from the general mailing lists they sell and last but not least ink cartridges. Do you wonder what these things have to do with community service?
The grapevine wreaths can be sold at the church fair and the money given to the homeless shelter, the Walgreen's flyer has toothpaste and sanitary napkins with a rebate it makes them free, by cancelling junk make we will save trees, cut down on energy use, and the ink cartridges can be turned into Staples, office max and such that will give you $3.00 in store credit that can be given to a homeless shelter to use so that other money can be used to care for the homeless and not paper or ink or what every. So the answer is they are all easy, very easy ways that we can start making changes right here in our own backyard. So I invite all of you to join me in the fight to change our world and make it better. It will cost you nothing and take very little time and you will feel great afterwards. Come on and jump in.

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