A Newsletter of Community & Senior Services Meals & More Newsletter
Volume 7, Number 2 915/689-6693 3301 Sinclair, Midland, TX 79707 4th Quarter
Leave a Legacy Campaign To Help People Decide on Gifts
You will be hearing a great deal bout Leave A Legacy in the coming year. It is an educational campaign designed to create awareness within the Permian Basin regarding ways to benefit local non-profits through estate planning. The Permian Basin Area Foundation and the Association of Fundraising Professionals have provided the means for the start-up to create the campaign, involve attorneys, CPA's and estate planners in order to form a trustworthy and responsible forum for education and information. A simple example of a planned gift is: You've given CSS $100 every year and you would like that to continue in perpetuity. A planned gift of $2,000 at 5 percent will ensure that yearly gift. Look for more info on Leave a Legacy in the newspaper and on television or ask your estate planning professional on how you can Leave a Legacy.
Canned Food, Items Fill Holiday Bags
The annual Canned Food Drive is under way with area schools, individuals and businesses providing more than 15,000 items that are distributed to out 450 clients for the holidays. Included in the Dillard shopping bags are canned food and personal care items. Clients look forward to the December delivery each year.
They've Done it Again.... Volunteers Post
Record Garage Sale
The Volunteers of the Texas-Size Garage Sale have done it again, with the largest sale ever! The countless hours these dedicated people give to make our major fundraiser a success in nothing short of stunning! The Volunteers begin to work in April two days per week and continue to work this schedule through the end of October.
The Numbers are very interesting: 50-60 Volunteers working 10 hours per week, 29 weeks for a total of 17,400 hours. Many Volunteers wash, repair, and even shine items to enhance the value. Did we mention we have the best volunteers in town? Many of our Volunteers are involved at their churches, other organizations in town as well as our own Meals-On-Wheels Program and Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP). The old saying "If you want something done, ask a busy person" more than applies to theses dear people. We thank these great Volunteers.
Board of Directors Change Announced
The Board of Directors of Community and Senior Services welcomes new board members Marvin Wynn, Allyson Groner, and Sharalyn Gill. We appreciate their willingness to serve the community in this capacity.
Retiring board members are Margaret Robinson and Ann Kleine, whose participation has been crucial for the last nine years. We offer our thanks and appreciation to these two dynamic women.
Traveling Poinsettias
Each year Trinity School holds a Christmas service before school is dismissed for the Christmas break. Music is a beautiful part of the service and the alter is magnificent with enormous poinsettias. It has become Trinity's tradition to give those lovely poinsettias to Community and Senior Services to be distributed to our most isolated and lonely clients. On behalf of those whose Holiday you brighten - Thank you Trinity School!
