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POWAYDIGEST Holiday concert Poway High School and Twin Peaks Middle School choirs will present a combined holiday concert 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6 at the Poway Center for Performing Arts, 15498 Espola Road. Tickets are not available at the door. Call Michele Ulrich for details at 858-4860549.
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VOL. 56, ISSUE 25
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Local food banks address year-round ‘invisible’ need BY ELIZABETH MARIE HIMCHAK As a majority of locals gather around their dining room tables to eat a plentiful Thanksgiving dinner, others in Rancho Bernardo, Poway and neighboring communities will have little to eat. To change that, area groups hold food drives throughout the holidays. While many are generous at this time of year, food bank organizers say the need is present year-round, even more so now with slow economic recovery conditions. “(The need) is all the time,” said Becky Palenske, director of family support at Friends & Family Community Connection. “People are surprised it’s in our area because it’s somewhat invisible. But it’s there, under the radar. “People might live with other people in a nice house ... (but) are not getting more than a roof over their heads. They need their own resources to eat,” she said. “There are also a lot of under-employed people in our area ... (and) low-income apartments in nice neighborhoods. People do not realize there is subsi-
Season ofSharing FIRST OF THREE PARTS NOV. 24 — FOOD DEC. 1 — SHELTER DEC. 8 — GIFTS dized housing in our middle- to high-income region.” Palenske said at least 200 families are served through FFCC, but it is often 300 to 400 families. “At certain times of the year we are especially hard hit — times such as school breaks when children eat Volunteers Robert Mach and Sylvia Betz, right, pack bags on Nov. 16 at The Connection church in preparation for this month’s food distribution. Photo by Beverley Brooks more meals at home.” Recipients go monthly to a Poway or Rancho Penasquitos location. Because recipients are referred by Poway Unified $2,500; bronze sponsor, the law firm of McSchool District officials, loca- BY PAT KUMPAN Dougal, Love, Eckis, Boehmer and Foley; tions are not publicized. SPonsors have contributed an estimated while an anonymous $500 donor and others But families with children are not the only ones strug- $8,000 in underwriting fees for an ice skating have also contributed. gling, Palenske said. In many rink, a major feature of Winterfest, which ofThe $2,500 donation will be spent on scholcases, area seniors are also fers food, arts and crafts, kids’ karaoke and arships to children whose families cannot affinancially strapped, but less musical entertainment Dec. 16-19 at Poway ford ice skating fees. likely to ask for assistance. Community Park, 13094 Civic Center Drive. City Council voted unanimously on Oct. 18 “There is a stigma for seDeputy Mayor Jim Cunningham, who has to spend up to $30,000 in general funds to pay niors, who often feel someone spearheaded the contribution drive, said for the rink rental and related costs, but also needs help more than I do,” three companies have cornered the top levels stressed the need for sponsors to help undershe said. “We have to work of contributions: platinum sponsor, Wal-Mart, write some of the expenses. through that sometimes.” $3,500; silver sponsor, Kelchin Construction, See SKATING Page 14 See FOOD, Page 14
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