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Sleepy Snack Sacks Delivered!
More than 17 Adat Shalom families (27 children) participated in our first
event on November 16, making 100 Snack Sacks for the Stepping Stones Shelter.
The Stepping Stones staff sent us a very nice thank-you note, which included
the following message:
“The snacks were delivered perfectly, the children enjoyed everything
that was inside the bags. We have been given them out each day since they
arrived and actually today was the last day which worked out perfectly
for the chips! Thank you so much again for this project and I am glad
to hear that people enjoyed working on it. We look forward to the cookies!”
A big Thank You to the children and parents that worked together to assemble
and decorate the bags.
We are also very grateful to our contributors: one (anonymous) family
donated all the food items, several members donated craft items, and
Giant Food Bethesda Row West and Giant Food Westwood donated gift cards.
Haya and Michael Laufer delivered the snacks to the shelter.
 About
Stepping Stones Shelter, Rockville
Stepping Stones provides
the opportunity for homeless men, women, and children to regain their
independence. By offering emergency housing, the residents can seek employment
and permanent housing in an atmosphere of respect, acceptance, and companionship.
Stepping Stones Shelter is one of the few Montgomery County Shelters that
provides services to entire families.
(From www.steppingstonesshelter.org)
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Please Donate Cookie Tins by December 20
We will begin collecting
cookie tins for the cookies that we will be baking and decorating for the
Stepping Stones Shelter. We will need at least 12 tins—either plain
or with a Christmas theme. Please place your donations by December 20 in
the box in the lobby. Thank you!
Sugar Cookie Dough Rolls Needed
For our December 21 project, we would like to decorate and bake sugar
cookies that are made from scratch rather than commercial refrigerated
cookie dough rolls. We need at least 5 rolls of refrigerated cookie dough
that can be sliced, decorated and baked. I have a simple recipe that makes
40 cookies per roll. Please contact Cathy Gruber if you can help (cag9@earthlink.net;
703-264-0811).
What else can we do? What ideas
do you have?
- January: an activity to honor Martin Luther King Jr.
- "Happy pills" – notes with light-hearted
pictures and jokes for nursing home residents
- Hand-painted potted flowers for nursing home residents
- Valentines Day Ice Cream Social at nursing home
- Public Safety Appreciation (baking, banners and visits
to fire stations)
- HeART boxes, art kits for Befriend a Child
- Box lunches for walk-in clients at shelter
- Park clean-up
- Carnival booth – Fundraiser for supplies
- Kids Dress-up Tea Party – Fundraiser for supplies
Interested in a Adat Shalom “East”
activity?
Contact Madeleine Levin (madandmatt@comcast.net)
if your family would like to have Kids Care Club activity in Silver Spring
in January.
Past Updates
Want to know what we have been doing in prior months? click here for last month's update.
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