The month of August has turned out to be packing month. We packed in a beautiful decorative way, 22 baskets for the silent auction to be held August 24th at Calvin Crest. Kudos to those creative Packers.

August 23rd your mission crew and its helpers will be packing 120 bags for the BART (Benson Area Refuge task Force) giveaway on August 24th we still could use dish soap and any warm coats for children.  This is an excellent time to check out the clearance sales for backpacks, an item we never have enough of.

School supplies were packed  by Debby Marsh, her grandson Kyle and daughter Amanda. Four trips with a loaded dolly were needed to pack her van. Then they took items to Edison School and unloaded it. Thank you to such an industrious family for all their hard work and this is just in time for the new school year.

Speaking of school supplies—”no more clipping” is the new motto for Box Tops for Education. The new upgraded version is pictured here and explained on the bulletin board in the Commons. There also is a list of acceptable items for Box Tops scanning. You may also go to their website for more information. In addition for your information Campbell Soup labels are no longer being accepted.

August 11th blood drive racked up 40 units of blood thank you Mike Osborne and Lauren Ilg, who were your hosts. the next blood drive at PCM will be in January and after hearing this
month menu you might all want to come. 60 egg salad quarters were donated by the now healthy Mary McLean and also on the table was fried chicken, potato salad, macaroni salad, brownies and chocolate cookies. Sounds like a party to me.

The Garden Mart staff has really been industrious this year. Each week a beautiful presentation of vegetables is available to all church members and anyone else who comes. We have a plethora of tomatoes, beans, zucchini, cucumbers, winter squash (spaghetti style) and even apples from the trees on our property. We still come up with about fifty pounds of leftovers that are picked up by Saving Grace food rescue every Monday morning and taken to pantries that afternoon. This particular Monday after our blood drive we had leftovers from that blood drive which included all the goodies I named above.