Loaves & Fishes Centers Annual Luncheon raised more than $280,000 in just one hour to help feed provide hot meals to seniors in the Portland-Vancouver metro area. The Annual Luncheon is the agency’s single largest fundraising event of the year. The Clark County Annual Luncheon, held in Vancouver in late April, raised an additional $112,000.
More than 900 area business leaders and volunteers gathered in the Oregon Convention Center on May 14 to hear Rhoni Seguin of Invesco deliver a keynote address. Ms. Seguin has delivered weekend Meals-On-Wheels with her children for many years and currently serves as a member of the agency’s Board of Directors.
Marcus Lampros, co-founder of Lampros Steel and last year’s keynote speaker, served as master of ceremonies. The Compassion for Seniors Award, given annually to a volunteer who has provided outstanding service to the seniors in our community, was presented to Charles E. Carlbom. Mr. Carlbom, a past president of Loaves & Fishes Centers Board of Directors, chaired the agency’s capital campaign between 2000 and 2003 that raised $7.2 million to build their current headquarters and central kitchen building in Multnomah Village.
Sterling Savings Bank was the event presenting sponsor. Other sponsors included: Columbia Distributing, Food Services of America, Davis Wright Tremaine, DeJarnett, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund, Gramor Development, Hot Pepper Studios, Western Family, CareOregon, Gramor Development, Legacy Health System, Walter E. Nelson Company, US Bank and Wells Fargo. Ric Larsen of DeJarnett chaired the volunteer committee that put on the event.
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.
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