BIG Update: 2nd Annual Westminster Food Drive
Help us feed 1,000 people
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Event: Veterans Day Ceremony
When: November 11, 2024
Time: 10AM to 1PM
Location: Armed Forces Tribute Garden
Description: Please join us in honoring all the men and women who have served our country. The Veterans Day Ceremony includes patriotic music, a speech by a keynote speaker, a flag presentation, and reading of the names of all new brick honorees. Complimentary coffee will be available for attendees.
Westminster’s Armed Forces Tribute Garden honors those who serve in the armed services. Personalized, engraved bricks are available to all service men and women. Learn more at www.tributegarden.org.
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✨UPDATE: 2nd Annual Westminster Food Drive✨
I launched this food drive just a couple weeks ago and the community stepped up!
We have already far surpassed (!!) our goal of $1,000, which means FISH of Westminster’s Thanksgiving lunch for ~120 people (most are unhoused) is now fully funded. If you would still like to give financially, please donate here; all dollars will be donated to FISH of Westminster to help fund their ongoing supplies that they give out daily to individuals in need. They host this lunch at Westminster Presbyterian Church in partnership with Congregation B’Nai Torah (CBT), the Journey Church, and Westminster Stake of the Church of Later-Day Saints (LDS).
My heart is full as several community members (incl. Gary Bland, Ed Lucero and others) have volunteered to collect food from across the Denver metro area to support our Westminster residents. We are in need of food items (e.g. canned goods, dry foods, oil, juice, potatoes, etc.). All donations will directly benefit Growing Home’s pantry (serving hundreds of individuals).
🚨Our goal is to feed 1,000 families by Thanksgiving. Please help if you can!🚨
Why is this drive important: 33% of our neighbors and 16% of children lack reliable access to nutritious foods due to financial constraints. 20% of adults regularly cut back or skip meals due to insufficient funds to buy food. Food pantries are regularly turning away clients because demand has outpaced supply.
Reach out to me for more information: obiezeadi@gmail.com; cell: 720-447-5606.
Yours in service and hope,
Obi Ezeadi
Westminster Community Foundation
I'm a board member of the Westminster Community Foundation and our mission is to be the leader and catalyst of philanthropy in Westminster to support valued, inclusive, just and meaningful causes, projects, initiatives, nonprofits and programs that are beneficial to the city and the residents of Westminster.
This past Wednesday, we hosted our Community Giving Celebration - attendees included residents, nonprofits, businesses, elected officials, and more. At the event we presented the inaugural winners of our "Community Giving Program" with grant money.
- Growing Home
- A Precious Child
- Fish of Westminster
- Ralston House
- Family Tree, Inc.
- Project Angel Heart
- CASA of Adams and Broomfield Counties
- Maiker Housing Partners
- Kids First Health Care
- Food Bank of the Rockies
If you want to support the Foundation, give here: https://www.westyfoundation.org/giving
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Vote YES on Westminster Ballot Issue 3C, because our firefighters and our residents deserve higher levels of safety, particularly as wildfires and public demand for service continue to increase. More info here.
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