Sort of a re-run
Mar. 20th, 2006 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ar_wahanThis was originally a reply to a comment, but I know at least one of you (starlitemoon) likes to read about the acts of good-hearted people, and probably would not have seen it in the thread. (Disclaimer: "good-hearted people" does not refer to me -- although I like to think I'm one!) So here it is again, more or less.
On Saturday I spent 2 1/2 hours outside a supermarket collecting food for the Survival Center. The center, founded by one of our church members years ago, started out as a food pantry and place to get emergency help in other areas. It has grown to include a number of programs, including a free lunch and a clothing closet.
I've volunteered for its food drives before, but always had someone else from the church with me to talk to. It was lonely, windy and very cold. It was warm in another way, though -- toward the very end, several people were extremely generous in their donations of food. I'm used to people coming up to add a jar of peanut butter or some tuna . . . but three people astounded me. A woman came out with a shopping cart full of plastic grocery bags. She put one bag full of canned goods into the collection cart. I thanked her, and then -- she proceeded to put four more bags (with rice, cereal, beans, soup...) into the cart! Only one bag in her cart was her *own* stuff! It was really touching. Then an older gentleman came out and did the same thing. And finally, a lawyer I know put some money in the cash collection jar (the center can buy a pound of food from the food bank out here for 18 cents). I peeked, and it was a twenty dollar bill. (Most folks put in a dollar or two, if at all.)
I don't know how much food or cash we collected in all (our volunteers were out there Friday and Saturday). I'm glad I diud it, and glad I saw it.
starlitemoon) likes to read about the acts of good-hearted people, and probably would not have seen it in the thread. (Disclaimer: "good-hearted people" does not refer to me -- although I like to think I'm one!) So here it is again, more or less.On Saturday I spent 2 1/2 hours outside a supermarket collecting food for the Survival Center. The center, founded by one of our church members years ago, started out as a food pantry and place to get emergency help in other areas. It has grown to include a number of programs, including a free lunch and a clothing closet.
I've volunteered for its food drives before, but always had someone else from the church with me to talk to. It was lonely, windy and very cold. It was warm in another way, though -- toward the very end, several people were extremely generous in their donations of food. I'm used to people coming up to add a jar of peanut butter or some tuna . . . but three people astounded me. A woman came out with a shopping cart full of plastic grocery bags. She put one bag full of canned goods into the collection cart. I thanked her, and then -- she proceeded to put four more bags (with rice, cereal, beans, soup...) into the cart! Only one bag in her cart was her *own* stuff! It was really touching. Then an older gentleman came out and did the same thing. And finally, a lawyer I know put some money in the cash collection jar (the center can buy a pound of food from the food bank out here for 18 cents). I peeked, and it was a twenty dollar bill. (Most folks put in a dollar or two, if at all.)
I don't know how much food or cash we collected in all (our volunteers were out there Friday and Saturday). I'm glad I diud it, and glad I saw it.
