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Ridgeway Drive between Madison Ave and West Market Street<br />
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The lights are magical but simply set the stage for Shine the Light on Hunger food drive</div>
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dropped off 114,490 pounds of food</div>
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We will leave the trailer up at the corner of Madison Ave and Ridgeway through this week so if you have been meaning to clean out your pantries or swing by Costco to get some canned food to add to the trailer, we still have room for it. </div>
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Thanks - we love living in this neighborhood just because of neighbors like you.</div>
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The lights are magical but simply set the stage for Shine the Light on Hunger food drive</div>
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Over the last 16 years</div>
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The amazingly generous folks from Greensboro and beyond have </div>
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contributed $324,680</div>
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dropped off 103,561 pounds of food</div>
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to provide 2,324,537 meals.</div>
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We had a great time at the Lighted Christmas Ball Workshop and Party.<br />
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We used up all 340 squares of chicken wire. We made a lot of balls and sent home some squares of wire for craft time at home. Best of all we met a lot of new neighbors and friends from all around.<br />
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We got a nice start on our food collection for Greensboro Urban ministry and $1600 for the food drive at Greensboro Urban Ministry and $1700 for Second Harvest Food Bank. <br />
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Mike Davis of Sherrill Tree donated a sling shot for the Sunset Hills neighborhood and for a donation to one of the food banks the sling shot is available for 4 hour time slots throughout the season.<br />
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Another neighbor Nichole Naviglia had a wonderful idea to start a google word doc so we could share ideas. Here is a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XZogr0pV6pZr7f3618qxpmAbnsqsbfkCVnp3HsvZz9Q/edit?usp=sharing">link</a> to that doc. Feel free to post there. She lays out some suggestions for how it should and could be used. I like her spirit. There is no wrong or right way to do this thing. It is just for fun and community and as an added bonus the whole effort simply<br />
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<span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Twenty-one years ago, we hung our first <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://smithpartnerswealth.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dda51df23742357f59ff8c20b6%26id%3Da1d34551fd%26e%3D38d34f73f5&source=gmail&ust=1510948490199000&usg=AFQjCNF-f9Y3aqGSiKbr9uQRUvzaxwNScw" href="https://smithpartnerswealth.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=da51df23742357f59ff8c20b6&id=a1d34551fd&e=38d34f73f5" style="color: #70a1b4;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Lighted Christmas Ball</span></a> in Greensboro, NC. Since then, countless neighbors and friends have picked up the torch and run with it. <span id="m_-6397206977148815344OBJ_PREFIX_DWT63_com_zimbra_date">Today</span> there are hundreds of yards lit up with thousands of homemade lighted balls. We’ve been fortunate to tell the story everywhere from the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://smithpartnerswealth.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dda51df23742357f59ff8c20b6%26id%3D7bd874bb16%26e%3D38d34f73f5&source=gmail&ust=1510948490199000&usg=AFQjCNG0ds28zEO2dDLlECXsP9oTLtTp8A" href="https://smithpartnerswealth.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=da51df23742357f59ff8c20b6&id=7bd874bb16&e=38d34f73f5" style="color: #70a1b4;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">TEDx stage</span></a> to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://smithpartnerswealth.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dda51df23742357f59ff8c20b6%26id%3D3c360a597c%26e%3D38d34f73f5&source=gmail&ust=1510948490200000&usg=AFQjCNEpntK5-EY9AwtOjZ8o6Iw6FPIu5Q" href="https://smithpartnerswealth.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=da51df23742357f59ff8c20b6&id=3c360a597c&e=38d34f73f5" style="color: #70a1b4;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Today Show</span></a>. But what is most fun is that neighbors are still getting together every year to build community and help those who need it most. To date, through our community's generous donations and countless hours from volunteers, the Lighted <span id="m_-6397206977148815344OBJ_PREFIX_DWT64_com_zimbra_date">Christmas</span> Ball display has raised over $250,000 and 90,000 lbs of food; the equivalent of 1,790,000 meals for our homeless and hungry friends.<br /><br />To that end, <strong>we’d like to invite you to THREE Lighted <span id="m_-6397206977148815344OBJ_PREFIX_DWT65_com_zimbra_date">Christmas</span> Ball related events in the coming weeks</strong>. See below for details and links to RSVP!</span></span></td></tr>
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We never did get down all of our lighted balls at least on the side of the yard facing Ridgeway. We re-purposed some lighted balls which were on the blink to clear lights and randomly placed them around the back yard here and at the lake for light and just to enjoy. Instead of hanging them up high like we do at Christmas we opted to put them lower and we are enjoying them.<br />
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We hope you are having a wonderful summer. We are enjoying our lighted balls in the back yard and look forward to putting up all the balls in the front and side yard soon. We plan for the lighted ball workshop for Sunset Hills to be that Sunday before Thanksgiving with a rain date of the Sunday after Thanksgiving. It will be here before you know it.<br />
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The cumulative totals from the Shine the Light on Hunger efforts since 2007 is $249,415.25 in donations and 89,757 pounds of food dropped off in trailers scattered around the neighborhood. Last year we calculated that the effort provided 478,825 meals from the 2016 effort alone.<br />
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That is pretty amazing. It is worth the hard work of the neighbors to make it happen paired with the generosity of the good people who drive, bike, walk and run by the food trailers. A lot of you have asked me for the links to all the media attention - just scroll down a couple of posts until you see the snoopy photo. All the links are there or in the side bar to the right of the blog. </div>
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It continues to give us great joy to share this with other neighborhoods, communities, towns, and cities across the country and the world. With all the politics and craziness this does seem to be one thing we can agree on, the lighted balls bring us joy and bring food to a lot of hungry people in our community and beyond.<br />
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Nick Loflin and his crew at <a href="http://therunningoftheballs.com/">Running of the Balls</a> are already rounding up sponsors for this year's event. The walk/run is a BIG part of the success of the Shine the Light On Hunger effort. If you or someone you know would like to be a sponsor, contact Nick. <br />
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I look forward to seeing those first ones go up in the neighborhood. Enjoy the summer as it is surely slipping away.<br />
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The Green Thumb Garden Club invited Justin and Jonathan to Greensboro Country Club to present their Christmas Program on December 9, 2016. The club, founded in 1944, is among Greensboro's oldest garden clubs.<br />
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Following a hearty prosecco wine get-together and a delightful lunch, the boys heard a brief Q&A session on ensuring blooms on the Christmas Amaryllis and few other gardening tips. Club members were as eager to learn Lighted Christmas Ball history as the Smiths were to share to share the story. In no time, the gardeners-turned-LCB-makers dove in to bending, fastening and shaping 27 pre-cut sections of Chicken Wire into neat, uniquely shaped globes.<br />
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If there were ever fast and nimble learners, these gardeners were they. Here are a few pictures from the event; if any members took any pictures, please email and we'll be glad to add them.<br />
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Thanks Green Thumb Garden Club for extending the right hand of fellowship and for your generous donations for North Carolina Food Banks. P.S. A downloadable how-to instruction sheet may be accessed by clicking on the Lighted Christmas Ball drawing beneath "How To Make" in the sidebar.<br />
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If you live in Sunset Hills and need wire or help, please let us know. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last year was a terrific year for the Shine the Light on Hunger food drive. The generous folks in Greensboro and beyond dropped off $20,018 pounds of canned food and <span style="text-align: center;">$57,306.25. The 5Kish Running of the Balls was responsible for $45,028 of the total. Thanks to Running with Horses for their part. </span></span><br />
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We never did get down all of our lighted balls at least on the side of the yard facing Ridgeway. We re-purposed some lighted balls which were on the blink to clear lights and randomly placed them around the back yard here and at the lake for light and just to enjoy. Instead of hanging them up high like we do at Christmas we opted to put them lower and we are enjoying them. <br />
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We have already had our first request for a workshop. We plan for the lighted ball workshop for Sunset Hills to be that Sunday before Thanksgiving with a rain date of the Sunday after Thanksgiving. It will be here before you know it. <br />
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The cumulative totals from the Shine the Light on Hunger efforts since 2007 is $182,202.25 in donations and 73,090 pounds of food dropped off in trailers scattered around the neighborhood. Last year we calculated that the effort provided 1,311,961 meals from the 2015 effort alone.<br />
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It continues to give us great joy to share this with other neighborhoods, communities, towns, and cities across the country and the world. With all the politics and craziness this does seem to be one thing we can agree on, the lighted balls bring us joy and bring food to a lot of hungry people in our community and beyond.<br />
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I look forward to seeing those first ones go up in the neighborhood. Enjoy the summer as it is surely slipping away.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lots of folks know the lighted Christmas balls are just about spheres of chicken wire all lit up and suspended from trees, neighbors helping neighbors, neighborhood food drives, turning strangers into friends, gathering around fire-pits and greeting all the passers by, interspersed with the best 5K in the world. All of those perceptions, and more, are real. And it's a sort-of periscope to the World to show that community really works, which in internet shorthand looks like #communityworks, #placemaking, #hungerhurts, #foodinsecurity and #LightedChristmasBalls. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But somewhere near the winding down of this year's food drive, mother nature dumped a record amount of snow, ice and slush onto two tailgate tents, and they collapsed in one ugly pile of twisted aluminum legs and canvas. See pictures below.</span></div>
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When the NBC editor finalizing the story on the Lighted Christmas Balls of Greensboro, she asked if we could put her in touch with other communities who had not only embraced the beauty and community aspects of the Lighted Christmas Balls but also focused that effort on the Shine the LIght on Hunger campaign. The folks at West Virginia University immediatedly came to mind. This is an email form the folks in Morgantown WVA to NBC.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">We didn't collect money but rather collected specific items for the Backpack Project in Monongalia County. We selected just one of the sites that collects food for the backpacks (Scott's Run Settlement House - </span><a href="http://www.srsh.org/" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12.8px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;">http://www.srsh.org/</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">), but there are others in this county. They like items that are easy for kids to fix for themselves and filling. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt;">Yesterday, I delivered 647 servings total of fruit cups (168), mac & cheese (140), spag/rav (130), and oatmeal (209) to Scott's Run Settlement House. It was humbling to see their operation and to get a greater understanding of the need in this area. Hopefully, this will become an annual event, and we can collect more. We might even be able to have a competition between the various colleges here on campus next year!<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt;">We had two workshops in my building and made at least two dozen lighted Christmas balls. Over the past few years, I've done workshops in the county where I live (Harrison) and have collected food for the local food pantries in my area. I don't do anything on the scale that the Smiths do in Greensboro, but maybe someday we can make a larger impact on the food pantries and the backpack programs. I'm fairly certain I have some more <span class="il">photos</span> from other workshops if you need more. I attached one from the second workshop, and the FB post has pictures of lighted Christmas balls and the collected backpack food. <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt;">At home, I have about a dozen lighted Christmas balls hanging in a tree below our house, and it is a nice conversation starter to make others aware of the dire hunger situation in our county, state, and nation. I think most people in our rural area know, but many times they don't know how they can help. Our church is one of many local churches and other faith-based organizations that support the backpack program. (My husband is originally from Greensboro, and my sister-in-law took me to see the Smith's neighborhood, and I was hooked on how beautiful they are and what they stood for to ShineTheLightOnHunger!)<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many of the Lighted Christmas Balls are still up in Sunset Hills. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They will begin to come down here and there as people get busy with the new year but we will leave ours up at the corner of Madison and Ridgeway </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You have been so generous with your food and monetary donations. </span></div>
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Click on these links below to see the December 2015 NBC Today snow footage + Video of the Run via Drone.<br />
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There has been a lot of great press for the neighborhood and the city of Greensboro over the last month. We love this town. <a href="http://www.madeingso.com/2015/12/16/justin_smith/">See this great article</a><br />
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We are still waiting to hear back on when the Lighted Christmas Balls will be featured on the NBC Today show but have been told it will be before Christmas. We have taken a lot of food to the food banks and the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=LL1eGZ2E5nOxotH8kzkeizuA">Running of the Balls</a> was simply spectacular. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today Elaine and Roger boxed up 852 pounds of food for two local food pantries compared with last year's 796 pounds from the party. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks to Natty Greene's for free beer all afternoon! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for great puppy gifts & for donating <i><b>all</b></i> the proceeds to 2nd Harvest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks to Skip and Sarah Purcell for the best BBQ anyone has ever had.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks to Gardner Sheffield for music and the best vegetarian chili on the planet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Heartfelt thanks to the hosts of this party. They made work seem like play and turned strangers into friends. </span></div>
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single folks so </span></strong><strong style="line-height: 22.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">multi-packs of</span></strong><strong style="line-height: 22.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></strong><strong style="line-height: 22.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">single
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fruits, applesauce, stews, meats, or pasta meals are very high in demand.) Also note that the items in </span></strong><strong style="line-height: 22.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">bold </span></strong><strong style="line-height: 22.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">below are high in protein, very
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canned beans, </span><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22.8pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">dry beans</span></b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22.8pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">peanut butter,</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22.8pt;">
or other nut butters</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22.8pt;">rolled oats, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 30.4px;">whole grain, low-sugar cold cereals</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22.8pt;">canned fruit in juice, not in light or heavy
syrup, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 30.4px;">unsweetened apple sauce</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22.8pt;">canned vegetables, with no or low-sodium, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 30.4px;">canned tomatoes</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22.8pt;">low-sodium soups, broths</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22.8pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">canned tuna and </span></b><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22.8pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">canned chicken and </span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 30.4px;"><b>canned stews</b></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22.8pt;">brown rice, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22.8pt;">quinoa, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 30.4px;">whole grain or other pasta</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22.8pt;">nuts, or seeds unsalted</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22.8pt;">shelf stable milk and milk substitutes</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22.8pt;">low-sodium pasta sauce</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22.8pt;">popcorn kernels (not microwave popcorn)</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22.8pt;">olive or canola oil</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif; 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<span style="color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">The 4th year for the greatest 5k(ish) in the
history of the world and we're hoping for our best year yet. We're hoping to
break the 1,000,000 meals raised for </span><a href="http://livebigdogood.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=207c6a1a12dc0633831687817&id=dfbe6e0b79&e=3c0af0def9" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #6dc6dd;">Second Harvest Food
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holiday season off in a big way. Here are the details...</span><br />
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Sunset Hills, Greensboro, NC<br />
December 12, 2015<br />
Runners start at 6 pm, Walkers start after runners finish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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We look forward to having you out on 12/12 and hope you're well. As
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Boom.<br />
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Nick and the RWH Gang<br />
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