Empty Bowls and Full stomachs

Well I went to the Empty Bowls event at our community center, and Romeo got a new bowl! I had a great bowl of spicy Habanero Chili from the Elliot Bay Brewery, a local eatery that makes the best chili's and soups. And like I said, I got to keep the bowl, a handcrafted pottery dog bowl, that Romeo got to eat off of Friday night! The Event raised a whole lot of money for our two local food banks- over $8,000 for each food bank last year alone. I figure they did even better since I heard all 1150 bowls were gone, and a number of folks brought their bowls from last year or bypassed the ceramic bowl and had a paper one instead!

Empty Bowls 2012

What do the 909 Coffee & Wine, Ace Hardware, Angelo’s Ristorante, Azteca Restaurant, Archies Mexican Restaurant, B-Town Blog, Burien Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services, Clay Art Center, CC’s Lounge, Day Star, Discover Burien Association, El Dorado West Retirement, Elliott Bay Brewery & Pub, Emerald Cove Catering, Fred Meyer, Grand Central Bakery, Highline Medical Center, Ivars Seafood Restaurant, Kayak Bar and Grill, La Costa Mexican Restaurant, Mark Restaurant & Bar, Mick Kelly’s Irish Pub, Normandy Park Senior Living, Osteria da Primo, Panera Bread Company, Puget Sound Skills Center, SideStreet Kitchen and Bar, Sterling Savings Bank, The Company, The Tin Room Bar & Grill, Waste Management, and the amazing Moshier Potters all have in common? Well they are this years generous sponsors of the Highline Empty Bowls fundraiser, on Friday, January 27th.

Really cool- You pay a $15 donation, you get a handcrafted artisan bowl, filled with soup, bread beverage and a dessert. All the proceeds go to the Highline and White Center Food Banks to help feed the hungry. So you  A) get a great lunch or supper and B) Get a great Artisam Bowl, and C) get to help  less fortunate brothers and sisters... that truly is a "HAT- TRICK"!!!
More info about the Highline Area Empty Bowls here
More info about empty bowls (national) here!

Member of Paperback Swap? Donate those Credits!

Harney Elementary, Vancouver, WA

If you are a member of the Paperback Swap kudos to you! You are helping the environment by recycling your used books, CD's and DVD's. But now there is a way to help out Schools in your area. Paperback Swap has a Books for Schools program, And if you have been gaining credits at Paperback Swap, you can now donate them to the school or schools of your choice to put books in their Libraries and classrooms. They also have a Military Book donation program to donate books to members of our military. But the donation is quick easy and only cost you credits made while actively participating in the book swap,

More KIVA News!

My Kiva loans are being re-payed. I had enough to make two more loans! I made two loans to American Entrepreneurs, one who owns a laundromat, and employs 6 persons, and one to a gal who owns a hair and beauty salon, and employs 2 full time and 2 part time employees. Why the American Loans? Well I feel that philanthropy is no good if you can’t do it in your own back yard. And the fact they use the loans to employ people is important. And my first three loans are being repaid as we speak, by my Chicken Farmer in Senegal, My Pig Farm Co-op in Ecuador and my Used Clothing group in Tanzania.

The fun thing about KIVA and Kiva Loans is you know you are helping people, families and workers all over the world. And it is a minimum investment, that returns so much more than money, it returns hope.

Burien Brat Trot!

What so you think of a fat boy joining in a race? No I am not going to do the 5K, maybe I will do the 1.2 Short course walk. But in any case I went to the Brat Trot website and sponsored a child and put in $20 for a pair of running shoes.. So I am participating if all I do is sit in one of Burien's Fine eateries and fill up on brats. The sacrifices I make for a good cause!

Benefit Concert for Relay For Life

My cousin's family, the Taylors, are putting on a country music concert to raise money for the American Cancer Society Relay For Life. This cause is especially close to our hearts because in recent years we have lost loved ones to cancer. I hope you will consider supporting this event or just donating to the cause.

The details on the concert:
The concert will be held on Thursday, June 30th in The Kelley Farm, 20021 Old Sumner-Buckley Hwy, Bonney Lake, WA 98391Bonney Lake, WA.
Tickets are only $10. Jason Wyatt will be performing.
To support this great cause, you can order tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/176771
Or to find out more about Jason go to www.JasonWyattMusic.com

Get a Haircut, Save a beach...

You know I was just sitting around watching Romeo's fur grow, and thought"too bad I don't have hair, cause I would send it to Matter of Trust so they could make oil boons and mats out of it. Romeo has hair, rather fur, but he isn't due for a hair cut for a couple of weeks. How could I support Matter of Trust until then. Well Dilbert why not look at their website? The have a "Ways to support button" there, where you will find some neat posters, t-shirts and sample hair mats and boons for sale! I didn't buy anything for myself but had to buy a shirt for the beggar-

Romeo and his "Get a Haircut, Save a Beach (Ask Me How) T-Shirt

Anyway, until his next haircut, this will have to do for him.Maybe I will get one by then. And there always is the donation button!!!