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agencies. Some business may be selling items to support local There is one new thing you can help us with this year, sort of
nonprofits. For example, they might be selling items like a like a personal Christmas wish: we would like to add videos of
cookbook for a local nonprofit to help raise funds for a com- folks reading their favorite Christmas or holiday stories to our
munity project. The business may offer to gift wrap presents blog this year. If you would like to do this, just grab your fa-
for a small fee with the proceeds going to a local homeless vorite book and a phone or other recording device and record
shelter. Several grocery stores will offer to let you donate a yourself reading. You can email the recordings to me, Shea
dollar, round up to the nearest dollar, or buy an extra canned Ann DeJarnette, Extension 4-H Agent, at [email protected],
food items to be donated to local food banks. Check out these and we will put them on our blog for our youth during the
and other opportunities available out there to Christmas shop month of December. This is a public blog, so you will be able
and support these nonprofits. to share your link with anyone out there, reading and sharing
the Christmas spirit with folks from around the world.
Needless to say, you can always volunteer at local community
agencies. The local Christian Care Center feeds folks every As they say, ‘tis the Season to give, so why not take a moment
day. Several churches and nonprofits also offer meals or other and share a little bit of you to make someone’s day a little
opportunities to serve the community around the holidays. brighter and more magical? Oh, and thank you in advance for
making our Christmas wish come true.
Here at 4-H we look at a combination of things. We love for
our families to be able to give back to the community. We For more information, contact Shea Ann DeJarnette, Exten-
have done canned food drives that donated to the local food sion 4-H Youth Development Agent with North Carolina Co-
bank. We have collected single-serve items for the Community operative Extension, Robeson County Center, at 671-3276, or
in School’s Backpack Buddies Program, as well as items for by E-mail at [email protected].
the cancer center for folks waiting in the waiting room. We
have collected hats and scarves for the homeless, and a va-
riety of other fun opportunities for the youth to feel like they
are making a difference. Of course, we like to thank our 4-H
volunteers who are the legs of our program. Each year we
have Appreciation Night for our 4-H families to recognize our
youth and adults for their efforts during the year. We like to
say thank you with either a meal or small token of our appre-
ciation, sometimes with a hand-written thank you note that we
sneak in as well.

The employees at Lumbee Bank would
like to wish you and your family a very
Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy,

and prosperous New Year.
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