Feed the People: Last Entry 2021

Here’s how it ended up, 42nd Annual DeAnza Lions Club Thanksgiving Food Drive 2021: 7 stops, 220 families, 460 boxes of food, maybe 900 (plus) people served, about 30 Lions and Friends/Family of Lions, much GOOD… #WeServe #LionsClubs Boxes stage for packing Food Boxes loaded for deliveries Last Delivery, Watsonville Baby Strollers Turned Shopping Carts …

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Feed The People: Part Two

Amazing day of collective effort and generosity. Various volunteers, long hours, and grocery store shoppers willing to donate food and cash to support those in need. Today we pull in the rest of the food needed, by hook or by crook, let’s feed the people. Modest Start, Saturday Past a couple boxes of produce, the …

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Charter Night: Celebrating Lionism

"Charter Night" is the annual gathering (usually an evening/dinner event) when and where a Lions club celebrates its founding and work. I belong to a club in my community. Here's a little something about my humble club, one of 46,000 in more than 200 countries around the world. 51 years.  FIFTY ONE YEARS. We've been …

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In the Wood – A US Entrepreneur’s Mission To Educate The World’s Children

[Here's another primer for my work with Humaneity mentioned recently.  Really getting excited about lighting that fire for inspiration once again.  This was a feature piece,  originally published in June 2012 in Humaneity Magazine.] If you think about some of the biggest names in the American (as well as global) technology sector over the last …

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Paul Farmer & Partners In Health: One Man’s Inspiration & Perseverance to Help Others Spans the Globe

[Originally published in May 2012, this article was my first with Humaneity Magazine.] You would be hard-pressed to find two countries seemingly more dissimilar than Haiti – small, impoverished nation located in the Caribbean Sea – and Russia – former 19th-century empire and Cold War adversary to the US, and recent heavy-hitter in the energy …

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