Have you seen the brown paper bags, filled up and stacked by the registers at Harmon's grocery stores? There's not a lot of fuss about them and they cost $10. Why would you want to be a $10 brown paper bag? If you stop to check, you'll see there's a label on the outside of the bag listing all of the things inside. The bags are filled with things like peanut butter, oatmeal and other food. Their purpose? They are sent to the food bank to help feed the hungry.
We noticed the bags during a late night snack stop at the store. Eric picked up a bag to add to our purchases. The guy behind us in line stopped and read what the bags were about, then loaded several bags onto the conveyor. We were grateful to have been there to see this spontaneous generosity.
Yesterday, the first lady volunteered at Miriam's Kitchen in DC. "Mrs. Obama discussed the need to support food banks and soup kitchens around the country given that things will get worse before they get better." The White House Blog
Suz
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Our kids school librarian will accept cans of food in place of fines for the same reason. Pretty cool.
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