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Holiday Food program needs donations Tri-Lakes Cares provides local families meals at Thanksgiving and Christmas By Rob Carrigan
rcarrigan @coloradocommunitymedia.com Tri-Lakes Cares has lot to be thankful for as we head into the holiday season, but the local organization sure would like to help more. “Each year, we run our annual holiday food program because so many families in this community will not be able to provide a Thanksgiving and Christmas meal for their loved ones. We do this by collecting food from the Harvest of Love food drive that is hosted by the Kiwanis and School District 38, and by purchasing the food that is still needed after the donations have been collected, says Julie Seeger, programs manager for Tri-Lakes Cares. “I recently found out that the funding for our holiday food program is greatly reduced in comparison to last year’s budget and we are desperately in need of help to raise the funds needed to buy holiday food. If we are not able to raise the money needed to purchase food, we won’t be able to provide every family with the essential foods needed to cook a traditional holiday meal.” Seeger said. “Our biggest need right now is to collect monetary donations for these holiday food bags.” “I already work with so many groups and businesses in the Tri-Lakes area to spread
Monetary donations must be designated for holiday food and this can be done by either writing “holiday food” in the memo line of a check or by placing cash in an envelope with “holiday food” written on it.
A donor drops off food that will be used in the holiday bags. Courtesy photos awareness of my programs, as well as the programs and events of other groups, such as the Monument Library and the Tri-Lakes YMCA. I would love help increase our ability to serve this amazing community that we call home,” she noted. “For Thanksgiving and Christmas, we provide local families with a bag of food used to make a traditional holiday meal. We fill the bags with boxed mashed potatoes, canned vegetables, pie filling, canned yams, stuffing, and other non-perishable holiday-themed
foods from our pantry. We get most of that food from the Harvest of Love food drives that take place in District 38 schools. We then purchase King Soopers gift certificates for each family that they can use to buy a turkey and other perishable foods to complete their meal. Funding for those gift certificates was previously provided by an organization that was not able to participate this year. Because of this, the gift certificates for turkeys will be much smaller if we cannot get donations from the community to help pay for them,” Seegar said. “We are expecting to help 250 families this holiday season with both Christmas and Thanksgiving, and all donations are greatly appreciated and go directly to supporting these clients. It truly does take the entire community coming together to make the holiday
season a happy one for everyone in the TriLakes area,” she said. Monetary donations must be designated for holiday food and this can be done by either writing “holiday food” in the memo line of a check or by placing cash in an envelope with “holiday food” written on it. “We also always appreciate food donations, as they help keep our pantry stocked and feed families year-round,” she added. “We love to take pictures of groups that donate and include them in our monthly eblast newsletter! We can also give tours of the facility to show donors all that we do to help out our neighbors,” Seegar said. Tri-Lakes Cares can accept donations Mondays and Thursdays from 12 to 3 p.m., or by calling Julie Seeger at 719-481-4864, Ext. 104, to arrange for a different date and time.
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Silke Sauppe, former Hitler Youth member, shared her emotional story By Danny Summers
dsummers@coloradocommunitymedia.com History came alive for about 160 Prairie Winds Elementary School students on Veterans Day, Nov. 11. Silke Sauppe, a one-time member of the Hitler Youth, spoke to the fourth, fifth and sixth graders at the school and used a captivating slide show presentation to show some of the horrors she experienced during World War II. “When you are 10 years you have to join the Hitler Youth,” recalled Sauppe, 82. “I didn’t want to do it, but when you are 10 years old you belong to the Nazi leadership of Germany. You have no choice.” Though it’s been nearly 70 years since Sauppe was freed from the grasp of the Nazi regime, she still finds it difficult to relive some of her experiences. “We would meet twice a week, on Wednesday afternoon and Saturday afternoon, and it was terrible,” said Sauppe of being part of the Hitler Youth. “We all sang songs about Hitler, but the songs we knew as children we weren’t allowed to sing. We weren’t allowed to sing Christmas songs. It was horrible.” Sauppe was supposed to be joined at the assembly by Major Henry “Duke” Boswell, who fought in the “Battle of the Bulge” and is the last known survivor who made four combat parachute jumps behind enemy lines during World War II. But Boswell, 91, was unable t make the event on the snowy, cold day – in which temperatures dipped into the low teens – because he was recovering from a recent bout with pneumonia. Sauppe’s appearance at Prairie Winds was arranged by Joe Brandon, an ambitious fifth grader at the school. Brandon emailed his teacher, Deanna Skabo, a few weeks ago and told her he was personal friends with Boswell. One thing led to another and Sauppe was added to the program. “It’s important for kids my age to know why we fought (in World War II) and why it is important why we fought that war,” said Joe, whose mother, Kim Brandon, organized the event.” Veterans continues on Page 6
Joe Brandon, in Boy Scout uniform taking photo, helped coordinate the special Veterans Day event at Prairie Winds Elementary School. Brandon is a fifth-grader at the school. Photos by Danny Summers
Silke Sauppe was a member of the Hitler Youth as a young girl in Germany during World War II. She shared her story with a group of Prairie Winds Elementary School students on Veterans Day (Nov. 11).
About 160 fourth, fifth and sixth graders from Prairie Winds Elementary School attended a special assembly on Veterans Day in which Silke Sauppe, a member of the Hitler Youth as a child in Germany during World War II, shared her story.