Food Drive

This year, many families in our area will be struggling to make ends meet and will have to take advantage of our local food banks. To help out, we will be collecting non-perishable food items from now until the first of the year.

One of our fabulous customers has promised to donate $1.50 for each pound of food donated to the food banks through Village Yarn and Tea, up to a total of $200 through Dec. 31, 2008! If this sounds like something you would like to do, let us know.

This past Knit Night we collected 60 lbs of food! That's not only a great food donation but $90 in cash to the food bank as well. What a great community we have!

Salsa, not Salsa

This Friday night at Knit Nite we will be featuring delicious salsas from Mama's Own Savory Salsa, made by a local mother/daughter team. I met Dawn and Diana when they were doing a tasting at the Thriftway up the street last month. I liked the salsa so much I bought some and asked them if they would do a tasting at the shop! I'm so glad they said yes because their stuff is HOT - both in the wow-this-is-great way and in the yummy-spicy way (although I'm a bit of a wimp and bought the mild). They will bring some jars to sell and we'll have lots of chips to dip. Be sure to check out their beautiful Website: www.mamasownsalsa.com

And don't forget about the Hopelink food drive this weekend. Bring in a needed item and we'll put you into the pot for a drawing. (see previous blog entry)

On another Salsa note, I went to a going away party for one of our favorite customers/friends, Jessica, last night at a new club in Wallingford called Babalu! It's on the corner of Wallingford and 45th and it just opened up. The music was great and the dancers were fun to watch. I'm definitely goin' back with my dancin' shoes on! Anyone care to join me??

Deb

P.S. Seinfeld fans will understand the title of this post. :-)

Knit Nite Food Drive

Last Knit Nite we asked our customers to bring in food stuffs for an emergency food drive for the Ronald McDonald House and we had a fantastic turnout. We were able to donate over $600 worth of food and other necessities! Because we were so successful, we were asked to do the same for another worthy group, Hopelink.

The Hopelink Shoreline serves low income residents of Shoreline and Lake Forest Park. Services available include regular food banks, eviction prevention, energy assistance, holiday gift rooms, school supplies, emergency financial assistance, Basic Food (food stamp) education and outreach, literacy, ESL classes, and family development case management. (The kids that benefit from this service are often the kids that receive free lunch during the school year.)

They are currently in need of the following items:
Canned Fruit
Plain Rice and Grains
Canned Beans (Chickpeas, Kidney Beans, etc.)
Dry Beans
Peanut Butter
Tuna

Bring in any of these items for donation to this Friday's Nite Knit (June 1, 2007) and we will enter your name into a drawing for a door prize.