I apologize, CheeseBOARD.

Cheesehead,
SHINE and it's employees donated $4,515.00 to the Bags of Hope. Any other questions?

ChocolateLover many think as you and that is what is wrong with this Country What the hell ever happened to HUMANITY. COLD BLOODED DISCRIMINATION AND HATE, Janesvillian do not forget the out dated canned goods sometimes 2 years or more. GOD BLESS THOSE THAT UNDERSTAND AND CARE.

JoyM,

The list of families are generated by the school social workers so we will deliver 300 families as much as we can be it one week or two. The reason the dead line is so early is to arrange the food order. Woodman's does an excellent job getting deals for us from all their suppliers, but it takes time order and then get the deliveries here, and soon we are at Dec. 15th delivery date. All of this is done at cost, with DONATED time by Dan Wright and his crew at Woodman's.

Seneca foods also donates a large amount of fruit and vegitables for FREE but again it takes time to arrange the delivery, ensure the workers and driver can get the food to us as well. Many other groups donate dumpsters, delivery vehicles, fork lifts etc, plus the donation of the excellent building by Lanair make this possible. I apologize for not having my whole list with me.

Donations after Nov 28th are accepted and if possible it is spent for this year. If not it is the start of next years food drive. Some wonderful soul drops off $10 a month year round at the ESC for the food drive, we've never known who it is.

Unfortunately, some of our students depend on the school meals and need this to get them through the break. I am proud to see the people work so hard to help them out. It is truly a labor of love that Saturday morning.

Jim Reif
Craig HS math

The truth is that even families who have not experienced job or some other kind of financial loss are still behind where they were even a couple of years ago. With fuel costs up, the cost of everything in people's operating budgets is up, so there is less of a cushion when they have their own unexpected costs, such as urgent car or plumbing repairs. I don't think it's that people care less but rather that they just can't do as much as they used to. For that matter, the GM folks who used to spearhead this and make their own generous donations are mostly either not working at all, working in lower-paying jobs, or if they are still working for GM, they ended up moving away - so maybe some other locale is benefitting from their generosity, but it can't be here anymore. Perhaps the game plan needs to be revisited...if they still want to support 300 families, it might have to be only one week's worth of groceries, or it may have to be fewer families with more stringent qualifications, or some combination thereof. Also, they could consider extending the contribution deadline a few more days so that people can get past dealing with Thanksgiving and start concentrating on the Christmas season, when more people become aware of the need.

We just turned in our bags of hope to the school today. They were due today at our school, so hopefully there will be a good turnout of last minute donations.

So true janesvillean, isn't it amazing how easy it is to criticize people who are having problems. Especially by people who only think they have had it tough. This is coming from someone who admits, I have never had even had one day, as bad as the lives of some of some of the people I see every day.

Right, those poor people sure have got it made. It's super easy to be poor, everyone should try it -- because, hey, day-old bread and dented canned goods. Who wouldn't want that life of luxury?

OK, help my understand how we feed school children breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack, their parents get a Quest card for food, that we still need to have food drives? Just how hungry and malnurished are people, especially with the wide-spread obesity problem? Something seems very wrong from my point of view.

That just tells you how bad things are today.