Run 4 Independence - The Sponsors' Reception

Steve has participated in our Run for the past 6 years

 Deb put together another wonderful reception in the warehouse portion of our facilty.  The warehouse cleaned up nicely and the sorting tables made good serving tables for the wonderful food from Brick House.  Our sponsors got to see the inner workings of our food bank, with staff providing informal tours.  

Jeri Retzlaff, Chairperson of our Board of Directors, thanked and welcomed everyone and did some reporting on the numbers from the Run.  Jeri said that the accounting was not done yet, but the preliminary numbers show the Run will profit in the neighborhood of $60,000!!  Jeri stated that the number of participants was 1,300 runners and walkers.

Thank you Sponsors and the Elk Grove community for making our Run such a success!

 Representing the Elk Grove Citizen, Mary Lewis and

Kathy Sansone from EG Quilt Guild

 Harp, Lovedeep and Stephanie from Wells Fargo.  

Stephanie is our newest Board Member.

Brooke from Chick-fil-A and

Jeff Ramos from CSD

 Tisha, Run 4 Independence Chairperson

Mike, R4I social media and Sharon

From Operating Engineers Local 3:  Matt Schraeder, Greg Dornback and

Dale, EGFBS Operations Coordinator

Travis, EGFBS Operations Manager

John Hall and Betty Hall, Board Member

Again, we thank all of our Sponsors from the Run, the runners and walkers and the many volunteers who came out to make our Run a wonderful success!!  Thank you!  See you next year! 

BJ's Restaurant and Brewery

BJ's Restaurant was in the house yesterday volunteering and put together 66 Senior Brown Bag food boxes in ONE hour!!

Our friends from BJ's Restaurant also assisted in sorting donated food and worked through one whole pallet of canned goods. 

The crew from BJ's enjoyed their time working  in our warehouse and were motivated about what they accomplished.  

More exciting news: BJ's is going to partner with us and have a clothing drive among their staff to collect clothes for our Clothes Closet.

Thank you, BJ's Restaurant for your continued support and we look forward to having you back!!

BJ's Restaurant and Brewery
9237 Laguna Springs Drive
Elk Grove, CA  95758

Cal Fit Kidz Club Book Drive

 This bucket of books for kids was donated by California Family Fitness Laguna Club.  

The kind clients and staff at Cal Fit donated many gently used books.  The books were added to our "Lending Library" in our lobby for our clients.  I noticed a little girl enjoying the new books, selecting some for her summer reading. 

Thank you Cal Fit Laguna Club for your thoughtful and generous donation.  Our youngest clients will make good use of your donation and keep their reading skills sharp through the summer break. 

California Family Fitness
Laguna Club
3443 Laguna Boulevard
Elk Grove, CA  95758

Another KCRA Report and More Photos from the Run

KCRA had another report on their evening news.  Board member, Mike Retzlaff, was interviewed and Leticia Ordaz reported from inside the EG Food Bank warehouse. 
 
Here is a link to more photos from the Run 4 Independence. 

Run 4 Independence

Runners and walkers wait for the start of Run 4 Independence 5K and 10K race.  

 This year the Run was dedicated to our organization's co-founder, Bob Fossgreen.

KCRA covered our Run on their morning news.  Here is a link to the coverage. 

The start of the race was exciting, with all of the runners and walkers making their way through our beautiful Elk Grove Regional Park.  While I waited for the runners to circle the course, I met up with a few notable supporters of Elk Grove Food Bank Services.  

Board Member Mike Retzlaff and Assembly Member Dr. Richard Pan

Sheri, Chick-fil-A cow, Shania and Harley (the dog)

I went back to the finish line to try to catch some of our Board and staff who were participating in the Run.

Deb finished strong

I missed Board Members Dean Scourtes and Chris Vogt at the finish.  I also missed Operations Manager Travis Ham.  After the race, I caught up with other participants. 

Hailey, Evelyn and Braden

Gym Bratz:  Sherrie Prettyman, Deb Luck, Pam Thompson, Victoria Johnson and daughter

We thank our community for coming out early this morning to support Elk Grove Food Bank Services.

We truly appreciate the time and effort from our enormous group of volunteers; all have done their part to make this a spectacular annual event!

To our kind sponsors who have stepped forward in support of our Mission and helped us immensely with this Run, our biggest fundraiser of the year:  Thank you!

Thanks to all! 

The Running Zone Makes Donation

I arrived at work to find three huge bags of donated items from our friends at The Running Zone.  I opened the bags and found them full of athletic shoes, lightly used ones.  Deb got in touch with Mimi at The Running Zone and found out about their program to collect lightly used shoes from their customers for donation to EGFBS.

These are just a portion of the shoes donated.

In addition to the lightly used shoes, our friends at The Running Zone included some new sports clothing. 

Thank you to our kind partners at The Running Zone, an active sponsor to our Run 4 Independence on Saturday, June 30, 2012.  We appreciate your faithful support to Elk Grove Food Bank Services over the years.  

The Running Zone

8470 Elk Grove Boulevard, Elk Grove, CA  95758

Phone:  916-478-9663

Located in the Elk Grove Corners shopping center across from Walmart near the drive-thru Starbucks coffee

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Wells Fargo Volunteers at EGFBS

While we were at the Seasons apartments delivering food to our isolated senior clients, Wells Fargo Bank volunteered at our Dino Drive facility. They brought with them donations, nearly 77 lbs of food.

In their one hour of volunteering they filled 55 boxes for our Senior Brown Bag program and sorted through 48 boxes of canned goods!

It would take four volunteers two full days to do the boxes for the brown bag program and another day to sort through the canned goods.

And Wells Fargo Bank did it in ONE HOUR!!!

Thank you, Wells Fargo, for your continued support of Elk Grove Food Bank Services!