The Editor:
As we begin the holiday season celebrating our blessings of abundance, it is easy to forget that many individuals and families in our community struggle daily to simply put food on the table. Our community never forgets! For over 50 years we have depended on you, our community, to be able to do the job that we do. You are the heart and soul of the Blaine Food Bank. Without you, we simply could not exist.
Every year at this time we hold our only fundraiser, the Matching Funds Campaign. The funds from this campaign are vital as they provide protein-rich milk and eggs that we desperately need for the over 700 families that seek our help each week. Milk alone costs over $60,000 a year.
This year, our generous anonymous donor and benefactor has offered us $40,000 if our community matches that amount between November 25, 2024 and December 31, 2024. We need your help to meet that goal. Our neighbors count on us, and we count on you.
Today we face our greatest challenge, increased need and decreased resources. Skyrocketing costs for food, fuel and housing as well as cutbacks in government funding and the end of pandemic relief bring new families to our door during each distribution. At no time since opening in 1972 has the need been greater, or the resources more limited.
Please, help us if you can. The need is great, and the need is now. We can’t do it without you. Donations can be made in person or by mail at Blaine Food Bank, 500 C St., Blaine, WA 98230 or on our website blainefoodbank.org using a debit or credit card or through PayPal.
I thank you for caring and wish you all a blessed holiday season.
Sally Church
Former director, Blaine Food Bank
Blaine
The Editor:
The Washington State Department of Transportation will spend $67 million to reroute salmon, but they won’t spend $800-1,500 (each) to place a stop sign at the top of the I-5 southbound ramp at Exit 270 and another at eastbound Birch Bay-Lynden Road at the overpass?
Haven’t they ever sat at that busy intersection while cars and more cars are driving west or east on Birch Bay-Lynden Road unfettered by any three-way traffic stop (presently, it has a single stop sign)? Haven’t they seen kamikaze drivers leap out from that southbound ramp to make a close-call left turn onto Birch Bay-Lynden Road?
Yet they want to direct traffic for salmon, to the tune of $67 million.
Jeanne Halsey
Blaine
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