Portland area shoppers donated more than $230,000 at local grocers during Loaves & Fishes Centers’ Donate Dinner campaign in November. Shoppers were encouraged to Donate Dinner for homebound seniors when they checked out at participating grocers between Nov. 22 and 26. Funds will be used to provide hot, noon meals for seniors served by Loaves & Fishes Centers, The Meals-On-Wheels People. Now in its fifth year, Donate Dinner has evolved into one of the agency’s largest fundraising events of the year.
Nearly 1,500 volunteers staffed the stores during the five days of the campaign to greet customers and distribute Donate Dinner cards.
The Donate Dinner campaign helps Loaves & Fishes Centers serve more than 5,000 Portland-area seniors every weekday. The agency depends on such community contributions for nearly 65 percent of its funding.
“We are amazed at the generosity of our customers during the holiday season,” said Brian Rohter, CEO of New Seasons Market and honorary chair of the event. “We can’t always directly help our parents or grandparents because of distance or circumstances. But we can reach out to the seniors who live near us through Donate Dinner. Thanks to everyone who contributed this year.”
Grocers participating in the 2008 Donate Dinner campaign include:
§ New Seasons Market, Arbor Lodge – 6400 N Interstate Ave.
§ New Seasons Market, Cedar Hills – 3495 Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton
§ New Seasons Market, Concordia – 5320 N.E. 33rd Ave.
§ New Seasons Happy Valley – 15861 SE Happy Valley Town Center Drive,
Happy Valley
§ New Seasons Market, Mountain Park – 3 SW Monroe Parkway, Lake Oswego
§ New Seasons Market Orenco Station – 1453 N.E. 61st Ave., Hillsboro
§ New Seasons Market Raleigh Hills – 7300 S.W. Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway
§ New Seasons Market Sellwood – 1214 S.E. Tacoma St.
§ New Seasons Market Seven Corners – 1954 S.E. Division St.
§ Hank’s Thriftway – 661 SE Baseline
§ Lamb’s Garden Home Thriftway – 7410 S.W. Oleson Rd.
§ Lamb’s Thriftway on Scholls – 12220 S.W. Scholls Ferry Rd., Tigard
§ Lamb’s at Stroheckers – 2855 S.W. Patton Rd.
§ Bales Farmington Thriftway – 17675 S.W. Farmington Rd., Aloha
§ Bales Cedar Mill – 12675 N.W. Cornell Rd.
§ Market of Choice – 8502 SW Terwilliger Blvd.
§ Haggen Murray Hills – 9055 SW Murray Blvd., Beaverton
§ Haggen Tanasbourne – 18000 NW Evergreen Parkway, Beaverton
§ Haggen Tualatin – 8515 SW Tualatin-Sherwood Road, Tualatin
§ Whole Foods Tanasbourne – 19440 NW Cornell Rd., Portland
§ Whole Foods in the Pearl – 1210 NW Couch Street, Portland
§ Whole Foods Laurelhurst – 2825 E Burnside Street, Portland
§ Whole Foods Freemont – 3535 NE 15th Ave., Portland
§ Whole Foods Bridgeport – 7380 SW Bridgeport Rd., Portland
§ Whole Foods Vancouver – 815 SE 160th Ave., Vancouver
Since 1970 Loaves & Fishes Centers has provided a nutritional and social lifeline for seniors through 31 meal sites in Multnomah, Washington and Clark counties and Meals-On-Wheels delivery to homebound seniors. With the help of more than 7,400 volunteers, the nonprofit, secular agency now serves 5,000 meals daily and more than 1.4 million meals each year. Loaves & Fishes Centers was named one of the “Ten Most Admired Companies” in Oregon in the non profit category by The Portland Business Journal in 2006.
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