LBFD Annual Holiday Food Drive Starts Nov 1

Easy Tactics to Add Some Food Donations to Your Grocery Shopping:

An easy way to give just a little something is to add a few more cans of food to your next food shopping excursion.  For the food drive, the Long Beach Fire Department is requesting donations of dry good or canned foods.

Special Food Donation Requests from LBFD Food Drive:

As part of the current special holiday food drive, there is a special request for pet food donations.  Yes, many of the people and families who have lost their jobs and who have been affected by the economic downturn have pet cats and dogs.  It’s certainly not the pet animals fault and you don’t want them all donated to the local shelters where they’d risk being put down.  As any pet owner knows, our beloved pets help to lift our spirits and encourage us when things are a bit difficult.

When and Where to Donate Your Food to the LBFD Food Drive:

Large cardboard boxes will be placed at the entry areas of Long Beach Fire houses for both the general public and LB Firefighters to place their food donations into.  The Food Drive donations can be made at the local area fire stations M-F 8:00 am – 5:00 pm during their regular business hours 7 days a week.  For a list of Long Beach Fire Department locations:  LBFD Locations

The Long Beach Fire Department’s annual food drive benefits local Long Beach, CA food charity, Food Finders.  Food finders distributes the food to over 100 Long Beach organizations.

Sometimes singles can get into a singles mind frenzy of overly focusing on wanting to find a life partner our spouse, almost to the exclusion of seeing others of different ages and from being involved in their community.  In the reality of marriage relationships over the course of a lifetime, we actually need lots of other people of many different ages.  Some will be surrogate fill-in moms and dads when we might live many miles away from our own or after they have passed on.  Start practicing that community gratitude and involvement now.  The habit and the spirit of the work will stand you in good stead for years to come.  Practice the law of sowing and reaping now.

Some creative ways to gather food for the LBFD food drive:

You might be a member of a singles social group or casual sport league.  For your next few events, encourage members to bring a bag of canned and dried goods to donate.  Have bags and cartons available.  A fun way to know what you’re giving is to weigh the food.  Then you can announce in your church or temple bulletin, or singles or social group’s newsletter announce how many pounds of food your group donated locally, representing your association or faith community well to the larger public community.  It’s as simple as that and oh so easy to do.

Happy Dating and Relationships,

April Braswell

Internet Dating and Relationship Expert

As seen in Dating for Dummies, 3rd Edition

April Braswell speaks to singles in Singles Groups and Divorce Recovery Groups as well as at Singles Dating Workshops and Singles Conferences.  Looking to Hire April to speak at your Singles Event?