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1. PROJECT MOSES by Terry Demler The collection for our friends at DPD's Child Exploitation/High Risk Victims and Trafficking Unit and the children they serve was a great success!!!!!! 132 bottles of water 258 bottles of other beverages 172 bags of chips 1,894 individual snacks Totaling 2,456 separate items They were so very excited when we delivered yesterday evening. Detective Paulson asked "this was done in two days?". We said "well, actually 4 hours out of those two days". It is great to be able to do such a small thing for such a caring, giving and courageous team. 2. JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER Susie Ryan, Byrd Teague and Ruthie Garrett deliver Meals on Wheels to Jubilee neighborhood! 3. ST. MARY’S GUILD MAKES DONATIONS, CONTINUES HOSPITAL OUTREACH by Carolyn Barta St. Mary’s Guild would like to thank parishioners and friends for purchasing goodies at pre-pandemic Sunday morning bake sales. The 75cent per baked good enabled the Guild to donate $7,400 to needy social agencies from 2019-2020 proceeds. Donations of $3,700 each were made to two organizations: Family Outreach Dallas and Hopeful Solutions. Family Outreach strengthens families by providing parent education, mentoring and child safety programs. Hopeful Solutions empowers homeless single mothers to achieve self-sufficiency. Bake sales are currently on hold because of Covid-19 restrictions, but St. Mary’s members and friends continue to bake, but for another community – pandemic-weary health care workers. Thirty-two bakers alternate weekly shifts on two teams – the Baking Angels and Hospital Saints – to supply individually wrapped baked goods for delivery each Monday to hospitals including Baylor, Presbyterian, Methodist and UTSW Clements. “Each year when I see the amounts we donate, I am amazed at what baking some cupcakes, cakes, brownies and pigs-in-blanket can accomplish,” said LaRee Stein, St. Mary’s Guild member. “And now to add the hospital outreach and help in that capacity is awesome to see each week, too.”
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