Toys For Kids With Cancer.....Candlelighters
This time of year, it seems every cause, good or not so good comes out and asks for your help. CHRISTMAS IS THE SEASON FOR GIVING!
Here at Longbotttom Coffee and Tea we truly love to give. You've read my blogs on how we love to support COFFEE KIDS. There is another organization that we are especially fond of, and that is the Candlelighters. They help kids with cancer. Every year for the last several years a couple of staff members here at Longbottom Coffee have taken on these special kids. Linda Wilson and Nancy Mills can't wait for their yearly auction fund raising dinner.
First they make sure Longbottom sponsors a table so they can invite there most favorite friends. Then they put together the most magnificent gift baskets. I'm talking BIG and BEAUTIFUL!!!!! These must weigh at least 35 pounds a piece. Each year they seem to get bigger and seem to have more and more of the goodies that go with coffee jammed in them. Then comes the night of the auction fundraising dinner. It feels like the whole city of Portland is there. And the kids are so wonderful, listening to their testimonies and then trying to hold back the tears. It's as good as it gets! This is a great organization!
So, all that to let you know, here at Longbottom Coffee's Coffeehouse we have a tree set up especially for those KIDS! So Linda asked if Longbottom could put the first set of new unwrapped gifts under the tree. You gotta come and check it out! It's a beauty!!! And when you do, don't forget to bring your gift.
The CoffeeMariner
Here at Longbotttom Coffee and Tea we truly love to give. You've read my blogs on how we love to support COFFEE KIDS. There is another organization that we are especially fond of, and that is the Candlelighters. They help kids with cancer. Every year for the last several years a couple of staff members here at Longbottom Coffee have taken on these special kids. Linda Wilson and Nancy Mills can't wait for their yearly auction fund raising dinner.
First they make sure Longbottom sponsors a table so they can invite there most favorite friends. Then they put together the most magnificent gift baskets. I'm talking BIG and BEAUTIFUL!!!!! These must weigh at least 35 pounds a piece. Each year they seem to get bigger and seem to have more and more of the goodies that go with coffee jammed in them. Then comes the night of the auction fundraising dinner. It feels like the whole city of Portland is there. And the kids are so wonderful, listening to their testimonies and then trying to hold back the tears. It's as good as it gets! This is a great organization!
So, all that to let you know, here at Longbottom Coffee's Coffeehouse we have a tree set up especially for those KIDS! So Linda asked if Longbottom could put the first set of new unwrapped gifts under the tree. You gotta come and check it out! It's a beauty!!! And when you do, don't forget to bring your gift.
The CoffeeMariner
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