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INDEX ■ YWCA, Gospel Mission help a homeless woman find a job, a home, and new meaning.

Page 4 ■ ChildStrive and a community of kid helpers at Children’s Village.

Page 6 ■ Lake Stevens Food Bank is outgrowing the church basement.

Page 8 ■ Greater Everett Community Foundation teams up with Special Friends Camp.

Page 10 ■ The Schack family’s legacy of generosity.

Page 12 ■ Red Cross volunteer started with Hurricane Katrina, doing what needs to be done.

Page 14 ■ Learning culinary skills and claiming a future at the Gospel Mission’s Feed Hope Kitchen.

Page 15 ■ Lutheran Community Services Northwest’s six resource centers adapt their services to fit needs.

Page 16 ■ Farmer Frog works with schools to teach kids how to grow food.

Page 18 ■ Ways to Give: Step up to this list of charities and causes in Snohomish County.

Pages 20-22 ■ A list of fundraising events planned for Snohomish County in the coming year.

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Jenny Diggins (left), who suffers from cerebral palsy and is severely disabled, has been volunteering for the past two years at Morgan’s Tales Used Book Store.

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With help from the whole community, Jenny’s volunteer job as a book walker helped her find meaningful work, increased mobility and greater happiness

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By Kari Bray Herald Writer

enny Diggins is a book walker.

She volunteers in Morgan’s Tales Used Book Store at the Stanwood-Camano Community Resource Center. The 23-year-old picks up donated books from a bin at the front counter and carries them across the room to the back office, where she sets them on a desk to be sorted and shelved later.

She carries the books one at a time and pauses to rest before going back for another.

Debra Kibler helps Jenny carry books to an office at the store. Kibler has been working with Jenny since 2012 and says that Jenny has been much happier and walking better since she began volunteering.

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Jenny’s story, it’s not done.

But it’s amazing to see how far she’s come since two years ago.

— Andrew Urie Sherwood Community Services

Debra Kibler, a VCS employment specialist for adults with disabilities, reads to Jenny Diggins during a break from work earlier this month.

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It might sound like an easy task.

But for Jenny, who didn’t take her first steps until she was 12 years old and wouldn’t grip something for more than a moment up until last year, every trek across the small store is an accomplishment.

Jenny, diagnosed with cerebral palsy, is severely disabled. She has vision problems, limited mobility and can’t talk. She spends much of her time in a wheelchair and communicates using a iPad program

that has different large pictures she can touch to have a voice say things like “I’d like to go to the bookstore to do my volunteer job” or “Hi, Debra, how are you today?”

Debra Kibler, an employment specialist for adults with disabilities, has worked with Jenny since December 2012. She’s with Village Community Services, an Arlington nonprofit that helps people with disabilities find the resources they need to be more independent at home, in social settings and at work, including volunteer jobs.

Kibler’s motto is “patient, kind, consistent,” and it has yet to fail her.

Given time, compassion and stability, anyone can learn new skills and grow as a person.

Still, it takes more than Village to make a difference in the lives of families like Jenny Diggins’, she said.

Sherwood Community Services in Lake Stevens and the Arc of Snohomish County helped set Jenny up with technology: iPads that let her speak and big red buttons so she can trigger recordings of people reading pages from her favorite children’s books. She works with Therapeutic Riding in Stanwood and with an adaptive fitness trainer at the Marysville YMCA to improve her mobility.

The Stanwood-Camano Community Resource Center found a niche for Jenny to volunteer as a book walker, and the Stanwood library has given her a new volunteer job during children’s story time. Jenny pushes her

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buttons to read parts of the stories as another librarian or volunteer holds up the book and turns the pages.

She’s come a long way from the preteen who couldn’t walk on her own and the shy high school student who struggled to wrap her hands around an object and hold on.

“It’s taken a lot of different programs to come together to get Jenny where she is,” said Suzy Diggins, Jenny’s mom.

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Just having someone pushing her with no mindset of ‘can’t’ but focusing on the ‘can’ is really powerful.

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could be considered a job.

It can be easy to see such comments as the end of the road instead of an obstacle to overcome.

Suzy Diggins wondered what she would do with her daughter to keep her healthy and happy, to make sure she had social interaction and a purpose in life.

Andrew Urie, with Sherwood Community Services, saw the plateau as a challenge.

“Jenny’s story, it’s not done,” he said. “But it’s amazing to see how far she’s come since two years ago.”

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little more each day. Having the ideas, observations and support of a network of people makes that easier, Urie said.

Jenny’s dad Joe Diggins wants his daughter to have as much independence as possible. More than anything, though, he wants her to be happy, to find fulfillment through work and friendships.

“As the parent of a special needs child, to see her with other people and know other people care, and to see her build her own relationships, is so special,” he said.

Michaella Diggins, Jenny’s stepmom, has seen her do more than they ever thought possible. Jenny’s mobility and social skills have grown immensely over the last few

years. She can walk on her own and interact with people. This summer, she was a bridesmaid in her stepsister’s wedding.

The volunteer work as a book walker gives Jenny purpose, Michaella Diggins said, and the job is “a really good match for her and her current abilities.”

Jenny’s family and mentors believe those abilities still are growing. The so-called plateau that worried them two years ago is nothing more than a memory. Jenny never ceases to surprise them.

Shortly after starting her work with Jenny, Kibler told Joe Diggins she’d read children’s books out loud during their session and Jenny had turned the pages for her. He was

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shocked.

“I just looked at her and said, ‘Jenny can’t turn a page,’” he said.

“But no one told Deb that, so she turned the page for Deb. Just having someone pushing her with no mindset of ‘can’t’ but focusing on the ‘can’ is really powerful.”

It’s hard sometimes to focus on the can-do’s instead of the can not’s for people with disabilities, Jenny’s parents said. Changing their daughter’s life took family and friends, educators and experts, donors and dedicated volunteers.

They’ve all become part of Jenny’s village.

Kari Bray: 425-339-3439; kbray@heraldnet.com

To learn more or contribute to organizations that help Jenny and others with disabilities: Village Community Services at www. villagecommunitysvcs.org.

Sherwood Community Services, www. sherwoodcs.org Arc of Snohomish County, www. arcsno.org YMCA of Snohomish County, www.ymcasnoco.org Stanwood Therapeutic Riding, www.facebook.com, search “Stanwood Therapeutic Riding” Stanwood-Camano Community Resource Center, www. stanwoodcamanoresources.org

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YWCA by the numbers In 2014, the YWCA in Snohomish County provided:

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individuals (children, youth, families and single adults) with emergency shelter, transitional housing, permanent housing with supportive services. individuals (children, youth, families and single adults) — an average of 350 each month — with monthly rental assistance through the Shelter Plus Care Program. individuals (children, youth, families and single adults) ongoing mental health counseling. children and their caregivers with domestic violence services.

816 hours of family law legal services. than 1,000 women with clothing through its Women’s Working Wardrobe program.

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Sandra Dillings cleans the kitchen of her apartment in Everett earlier this month. After struggling with addiction, Dillings, 67, sought help from the Everett Gospel Mission and later the YWCA. They gave her a home, regular counseling and helped her find a steady job for the first time in 15 years.

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VERETT — In many ways, Sandra Dillings is beginning life anew at age 67.

She has her own apartment, two bedrooms with a washer and dryer. “And it’s mine,” she says proudly.

She has a car, a navy blue 2000 Dodge Intrepid that she describes in one word: “Beautiful!”

She has job as a cashier at a Rite Aid in central Everett. “I’m in a union,” she said. “People love me. I feel so good about myself.

Wow! I’m on top of the world.”

Her progress has both heartened and amazed people who know her efforts to overcome a history that included sexual abuse, cocaine addiction, mental health issues and being out of the workforce for 15 years.

Shannon Gaule, an employment specialist who works out of the YWCA’s Everett office, describes her in terms anyone would welcome on a letter of recommendation. “A very positive attitude, very motivated, willing to do the work and with a sweet soul,” she said.

Dillings went to California in 2010 to help take care of her grandchildren for a son who was in the Navy. While there, a second son, 47-year-old Christopher Kenneth Ragland, was shot and killed on Feb. 27, 2013.

About two months later, Dillings returned to Snohomish County, living at the Everett Gospel Mission’s shelter for women and children. She previously had lived there for about two years, earning the praise of staff for her willingness to take on volunteer tasks, including cleaning rooms as people left the shelter.

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Sylvia Anderson, the mission’s chief executive, remembers Dillings, then 65, took a faith and finance class. Dillings told her: “I think I want to get a job.”

Dillings was connected with the YWCA where, she said, “I met all my angels.” They told her about a temporary work program offered through AARP. YWCA staff also provided help with housing, counseling, and access to its free workplace wardrobe program that provides women up to three outfits for interviews or their job.

Gaule, of the YWCA, remembers meeting a women whose confidence was deflated and selfesteem damaged by not having paid employment for more than a decade and being a victim of sexual assaults.

Yet Dillings had an indomitable spirit, was full of energy and was willing to do the necessary

Dillings pays it forward by volunteering with the the Gospel Mission.

work involved in getting a job.

They built multiple resumes that detailed her previous paid and volunteer experience, from being a certified nurse’s aid to assembly work to working in a dining room and at a cafeteria.

Dillings qualified for a federal program coordinated by the YWCA that provides housing and a rental assistance for people who are homeless and disabled.

She was nominated, and eventually selected, to receive a reconditioned car from Everett’s M and N Absolute Auto Repair.

“We were praying that she didn’t have to catch the bus to go to her job,” said Anderson, of the Everett Gospel Mission.

Dillings was offered a job as a cashier in an Everett Rite Aid, where she has been working for about two months. “God has answered my prayers,” she said.

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said included being molested by a family member as a child, having her own child at age 16, “knowing nothing about motherhood,” — the first of four children — and being a victim of rape in 1998.

“I know my past was haunting me,” she said. “I feel like I held myself hostage all these years for things that happened to me and I had no where to go to figure it out.”

But “some day you want to come out of that hole,” she said.

Telling her story, “was the hardest thing I had to do,” but it also helped her gain a foothold of confidence.

“Thank God for the YWCA,” she said. “I’m telling you, they answer prayers. They listen. They give you what you need to stand on your own if you’re ready to do it.”

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High school seniors receive financial support to participate in graduation activities

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•223 survivors of assault and trauma were given sweat suits, underwear and personal items through Assault Survivor Kits®.

•175 traumatized children and adults took comfort

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Students celebrate receiving their bags of new clothes.

Assistance League volunteers helped over 4,600 children and teens from 15 Snohomish County school districts select new school clothing this past school year.

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A large majority (67%) saw a positive change in peer acceptance. Students were generally happy, “stood a little taller”, were more comfortable participating in class, and interacted with classmates. We received hundreds of comments: “I have a student who was made fun of because his pants were too small. The bullying stopped when he got his School Bell clothes. I have another student whose shoes were so small, she could barely walk.

She likes going to PE now because she can run in her new shoes. I have two students who I let stay in the classroom at recess time because they did not have a winter coat and it was too cold outside. They now can play at recess.”

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They also provided T-shirts for teens.

• Homeless or low-income adults and displaced families were provided vouchers to shop at the Assistance League Thrift Store for needed clothes and household items.

• Special support, designed to enrich student’s learning, was provided to three schools in need of extra resources.

• Thousands of in-need families and individuals benefited from unsaleable items donated to the Thrift Shop and passed along to other local nonprofit organizations.

“Thank you for this opportunity to help our struggling students fit in better at school and be more successful, both academically and socially.”

It takes approximately $100 to provide a child a complete new wardrobe, valued at around $250.

Assault victims are given clothing and hygiene kits

It’s hard to imagine the physical pain and emotion associated with sexual or physical abuse. Any violent act committed against a person leaves deep scares.

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“We call them Survivor Kits, because that’s exactly what these people are,” explained Jeryl Torick, Kitty Young Auxiliary Chair. “This year we distributed 223 kits to children and adult survivors who needed our help. Their need is so basic, but often overlooked.”

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It takes a Children’s Village ChildStrive and other agencies for kids share their community

By Julie Muhlstein Herald Writer

EVERETT — Darcy Baldridge tried an art project. At age 2, she wasn’t busy with it for long. She joined her brother, 4-year-old Simon, who was working his way through the preschooler toys in a colorful playroom.

Outside, Patti Spurgeon’s grandson, 17-month-old Haddon, climbed into a Little Tikes coupe and used his feet to get a move on. Charlie Parkhurst, a 2-year-old in an Elmo tank top, wanted his turn in the kiddie car.

They had come to ChildStrive, a nonprofit agency that’s part of the Children’s Village complex on Everett’s East Casino Road.

On Tuesday mornings, ChildStrive sponsors a weekly Casino Road Play and Learn Group.

ChildStrive was originally known as Little Red School House. That agency was founded in 1963 in south Snohomish County to serve children, birth to school age, with developmental disabilities or delays. It was meant to fill the needs school districts would serve as children entered special education.

The Tuesday play group isn’t just for ChildStrive clients. It’s open to all families with children 18 months to 5 years old. Those living in the Casino Road neighborhood are especially welcome, said Terry Clark, ChildStrive executive director.

“At certain developmental stages, there should be lots and lots of support for families,” Clark said. “Parenting is probably the hardest job any of us will ever have. Somehow, we’re all supposed to know how to do it.”

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Baldridge, the mother of Simon and Darcy, said her son was born 14 weeks early. Simon didn’t come home from the UW Medical Center until 112 days after his birth.

“He needed help with basic development, feeding therapy and speech therapy,” Baldridge said. For about two years, the family had home visits from ChildStrive speech therapist Jacqueline Oh. Although Simon no longer needs therapy and is now reading, he and his little sister have fun learning and socializing with other kids at the play group.

Today, ChildStrive’s mission is much broader than it once was.

The creation of the Children’s Village complex at 14 E. Casino Road about 15 years ago brought more families seeking help with early learning.

Along with ChildStrive, Children’s Village houses several other agencies serving young people. They include: Hand In Hand, Casino Road Kids Ministries, the YMCA Casino Road Youth Development Center, the Institute for Family Development, and Head Start and Early Head Start.

Clark said ChildStrive, which helps about 2,500 children a year, oversees home visits and the drop-in play group, the Nurse-Family Partnership, earlyintervention services, and a Parents as Teachers program.

“Our core function is working with birth to 3-year-olds who have disabilities or delays,” she said. “But a lot of kids don’t meet criteria for state-supported programs. And a lot of kids are doing fine, but their families want to do better by them.

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At ChildStrive on Casino Road in Everett, Haddon Spurgeon, 17 months, finds something his size to drive.

“Whether they’re born with a disability, are homeless or grew up on Casino Road, whatever is going on in their lives we want to support children so they are ready, active learners when they walk into kindergarten,” Clark said.

Part of the vision of Children’s Village is for agencies serving children to share facilities.

“Nobody needs a big conference room all the time,” Clark said.

Some ChildStrive clients are being served by other agencies at the site. A few parents involved in the play group also take English as a second language or GED

classes through the Y’s Youth Development Center.

Courtney Miller, a ChildStrive family counselor, facilitates the play group, which is on summer break through Sept. 8. It will resume, 10-11:30 a.m., on Sept.

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The group isn’t preschool, there are no formal lessons. “My goal is to promote parent-child interaction, and provide a safe space to do that,” Miller said.

Molly Parkhurst, Charlie’s mom, brought her son to the group from Bothell. Charlie

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Children’s Village agencies Children’s Village, 14 E. Casino Road in Everett, houses several nonprofit organizations providing services to children, teens and their families. ChildStrive (formerly Little Red School House) purchased four buildings that make up Children’s Village in 1999. Agencies there are:

ChildStrive Supports families with children, 18 months to 5 years old, who have disabilities, delays or are at risk for delays. Provides home visits and drop-in play groups. The play group meets 10-11:30 a.m. Tuesdays, starting Sept. 15. www.childstrive. org/

Hand In Hand Through its Safe Place, offers a crisis place for children removed from homes due to abuse, neglect or drug use. Its Village Impact Project provides food, clothing, school supplies and resources. www.handinhandkids.org/?view=mobile

Casino Road Kids Ministries Provides after-school homework clubs for elementary school-aged children. Hot meals and snacks included. www.crmkids.org/ DAN BATES PHOTOS / THE HERALD

During the Play and Learn Group at Children’s Village, very young children get a chance to play and learn with a larger group. Family facilitator Courtney Miller is surrounded by Maley Vargas, 3, left, Simon Baldridge, 4, and Darcy Baldridge, 2, and Patti Sourgeon with her grandson, Haddon, 17 months, at right. Rebekah Baldridge of Lynnwood (back) watches her kids have fun, and Charlie Parkhurst, 2, plays nearby (back).

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has been helped by ChildStrive home visits that have addressed a speech delay. Everett’s Maria Vargas was there with her 3-yearold daughter, Maley.

They are playmates who don’t exactly play together. “Before age 3, it’s typical that they engage in side-by-side play,” Miller said. “It can be a challenge when kids see a toy and think ‘it’s mine.’ These parents do a good job.”

Kathleen Lefcourt, ChildStrive’s marketing manager, said the group is an opportunity for very young children with disibilities to interact with other kids.

“Sometimes it’s the first socialization they have with typically developing kids,” she said.

Lefcourt said one mother brought a child whose disability required that a helmet always be worn. “They don’t go out in public,” she said. “For a lot of families, it’s a safe place.”

By opening its doors to Casino Road families, ChildStrive serves an added purpose.

“For people who live on Casino Road, it can be a transient community. They don’t know their neighbors,” Clark said. “Here, people meet people who are their neighbors. It’s a small way of helping people get to know their community and have a connection. We’re working hard to empower people.”

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Food bank needs some deposits Lake Stevens nonprofit looks to community to help it keep serving

By Kari Bray Herald Writer

LAKE STEVENS — Things have gotten a little crowded in the Lake Stevens Community Food Bank.

Shelves line just about every inch of wall space in the back rooms of Ebenezer Lutheran Church, 2111 117th Ave. NE. The walk-in freezer has become a squeeze-in freezer filled with stacks of crates and boxes. A white canopy is set up outside on distribution days to handle the overflow of people and produce. Families coming to pick up food must wait in line, going one at a time or in small groups so they can navigate the narrow aisles inside the food bank, picking up loaves of bread, gallons of milk, cans of soup and bundles of bananas.

The food bank has leased space at Ebenezer Lutheran Church for more than 30 years. It was started by members of the congregation nearly 40 years ago before becoming a separate nonprofit.

Food bank volunteers now serve about 300 families every week and expect to serve more in the future.

It’s time for a new home with more space to grow and serve, directors say. They aim to turn a tangle of trees and bushes into a new food bank by summer 2017.

The effort to build a bigger home has been quietly in the works for several years. Before launching a formal fundraising campaign this summer, officials talked to political and business leaders in the city and started tucking away donations for a new building. Like most major campaigns, plans were rolled out slowly. They raised nearly $200,000 and bought property next to the church, then started designing a new building — a simple, 6,000-square-foot structure with two stories and lots of

storage space.

Now, the food bank is turning for help to the community it serves. The goal is to raise $925,000 to build, furnish and stock the new building.

“In getting this going, the thing first and foremost is to give the community ownership of this,” food bank president Mitch Robinson said. “Our goal is to really tap into the community in any way we can.”

About 60 volunteers — “real dedicated crews” — keep the food bank running, he said. He’s looking for more volunteers who have expertise in marketing or fundraising and would like to help with the food bank’s building campaign.

Glen Moffitt has been volunteering for about six years. The volunteers and clients are like family, he said, but they’re “basically in a church basement.”

A new food bank would give them room to better serve people who need a hand, he said.

“There’s a lot of homeless and also what a lot of people don’t think about are people who are sick with cancer and stuff and their budgets have just been decimated,” Moffitt said.

After moving into the new space, Robinson expects the demand to grow at least 30 percent, which would mean serving at least 90 more families each week.

“When you provide greater levels of service, you make it OK for more people to use,” he said.

He doesn’t doubt that the fund raiser and the new food bank construction will be a success. The community has been good to the food bank, donating supplies and funds whenever needed. Robinson is constantly amazed by the generosity of donors, he said.

“We see a great future here,” he said. “We’re excited to welcome our clients to our new home.”

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Sister Grawrock and Sister Ledesma sort food items at the Lake Stevens Food Bank recently.

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Parents As Teachers A home visiting program dedicated to serving families struggling with homelessness, poverty, mental illness, trauma, or other chronic hardship. This national best-practice model shows success in reduced child abuse and neglect, increased school readiness, increased parent knowledge of childhood development and improved parenting practices.

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What: The Lake Stevens Community Food Bank When: Open for food pickup from 1:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursdays.

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Access: The same family can come no more than twice a month.

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Warm Beach, warmer hearts Special Friends campers celebrate the joy of outdoor fun with support of Community Foundation

By Chris Winters Herald Writer

STANWOOD — All the activities at Warm Beach Camp on a recent sunny day had an air of celebration, from check-in to recreation. When a group of campers and staff hauled one of the teens up to a zipline platform, they cheered him on. When he zipped back down to earth, they whooped even louder.

One of those visiting that day was Stephen Estes, a donor to Special Friends Camp, which is targeted at people with special needs from age 16 up. These include people with autism, Down syndrome or other learning disabilities.

Each camper worked with a buddy — a staff member or volunteer — who stuck by the camper all day.

Estes, a retired teacher who has had experience working with special needs kids, wanted to see what his charitable gift was supporting.

He’d been looking for causes to support, he said, and the Greater Everett Community Foundation had indicated to him that there was a cause here that needed some financial support.

“Because it was special needs, it clicked,” Estes said.

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Camp volunteers line up and pull (left) a rope that will lift Joshua “J.J.” Howard up to a platform high in a tree, as recreational staff member Spencer McDowell (orange hat) operates the guide rope.

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groups of programs running at any one time — is supported by donations, said Ed McDowell, the non-profit’s CEO. That makes connecting with people like Estes all the more important.

And that’s a niche that the Greater Everett Community Foundation has found works well, said Maddy Metzger-Utt, the foundation’s president and CEO. The eight-year-old foundation has grown an average of 16 percent annually over the last seven years, Metzger-Utt said.

Based upon the foundation’s investment strategy and some expected future gifts, the foundation’s endowment of about $15 million right now is expected to double to $30 million or more in the next five years, she said.

With increased resources, the foundation has identified several areas where it can apply its strengths to have a positive impact.

“The community is asking us to take a bigger role with collaborations and to take more ... community leadership,” MetzgerUtt said.

Foundation funding will allow the Sultan School District to hire part-time staff to coordinate eligibility requirements for mental health services and other resources.

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Camp counselor Shana Litts dances with "Special Friend," Mathew Petersen when he arrives, Tuesday, for a wonderful week at Special Friends Camp, held for teens and adults with disabilities at Warm Beach Camp.

Donor Stephen Estes tours Warm Beach during Special Friends Camp.

making calls to get kids clothing, schools shouldn’t have to figure out how to feed kids over Christmas break,” Metzger-Utt said.

In many cases, it’s getting people and groups to talk to each other in ways that they haven’t been able to, said Karri Matau, the foundation’s vice president of grantmaking and partnerships.

The question the foundation seeks to answer, Matau said, is “How could a little bit of money help a lot of people all moving in the same direction?”

The foundation has identified four areas to pursue. The first is connecting donors with causes, which also includes finding people who want to serve on the boards of directors of nonprofits.

“Over last two years we’ve found a huge group of people not being able to find boards,” Matau said.

The foundation’s “LeaderLink” initiative, what she bills as a Match.com for board directors, helps build those bridges.

Camper guests and friends gather in an outdoor area to pray and talk together before walking over to the zip line at Warm Beach Camp.

The second area focuses on helping professional advisers who work with foundation donors and clients — lawyers, accountants, financial professionals — negotiate the world of philanthropy.

The third area is to increase the interest of donors in economic development issues.

The foundation saw this after the March 22, 2014 mudslide near Oso, when it established a fund that helped the cities of Arlington and Darrington with economic planning so they could rebound from the economic hit they took.

This is a brand new initiative, Metzger-Utt said.

“We don’t even know what our options are yet,” she said.

The final part of the strategy will focus on bringing more financial resources into Snohomish County as a whole.

Again, its’ a new initiative, and it doesn’t even necessarily involve raising money for the foundation, but rather involving the entire community.

“It’s not just our foundation assets, it’s our community wealth and assets,” Matau said.

In this way the foundation would become a support system for the community as a whole.

A lot of these new initiatives are expected to be announced at the foundation’s annual breakfast on Oct. 1, along with a renewed focus on supporting all of Snohomish County.

“We’ve always been about every part of our community, every part that makes a community healthy and thrive,” Matau said.

Chris Winters: 425-374-4165; cwinters@heraldnet.com. Twitter: @Chris_At_Herald.

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Couple’s quiet generosity leaves huge legacy

By Chris Winters Herald Writer

EVERETT — Some cities have the names of their leading families inscribed all over buildings, street signs, landmarks and neighborhoods.

In Everett, however, there’s just one building bearing the Schack name, and that’s a relatively recent addition.

“They had never wanted their name on anything previously,” said Judy Tuohy, the executive director of the Schack Art Center, which until 2009 was known as the Arts Council of Snohomish County.

John and Idamae Schack had long supported the Arts Council, and when the nonprofit was moving into its new facility, the board took two years to settle on a new name, Tuohy said.

“We wanted to leave a legacy of everything they’ve done for the community,” she said.

John Schack, who died in 2004 at age 95, didn’t live to see his name on the building.

Idamae Schack, now 97 and enjoying a quiet retirement, according to family members, was touched with the proposal.

“She cried,” said Patty DeGroodt, Idamae’s daughter. “She always wanted to be quiet and unassuming.”

Unassuming did not mean uninvolved, and the history of the Schack family is one of giving out and giving back.

Both John and Idamae came from humble beginnings. John’s mother came from a well-off family in Missouri, but his father was an immigrant from Denmark who died young from a heart attack.

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Idamae Schack, along with her husband, John, gave millions to the Greater Everett Community Foundation, Everett Public Library, The Children’s Museum, Everett Symphony, Historic Everett Theater, Everett Community College, and more.

John’s oldest daughter, Margaret Schack-Davis, said her grandmother had to take in boarders to make ends meet.

John Schack’s business career had its ups and downs, Schack-Davis said, and he had help from friends to get him through hard times.

“If he thought he could one day pay them back in some way he’d like to do it,” Schack-Davis said.

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experience, growing up in Auburn, marrying Walter Miles and then settling into the life of a homemaker while Miles established a business, Miles Sand and Gravel.

Walter died suddenly, leaving Idamae with four young children and a choice. She decided to take over running the company on her own.

“She set a really good example for me, what it means to be a strong

woman,” DeGroodt said.

“She ran a sand and gravel company.”

“But she also always put on her high heels in the morning. She was a lady,” she added.

Idamae also made sure that her four children would grow up to be well-rounded.

“She always played classical music for us, took us to the opera, dance classes,” DeGroodt said.

John and Idamae married in 1966 and they moved up to Everett in 1978 when John bought another business. His successful precast concrete company in Auburn, Utility Vault Co., was purchased in 1981 by Oldcastle Precast, while Idamae commuted for another decade to run Miles Sand and Gravel.

While the Schacks were passionate about causes, including the arts, children and health care, it was people they were investing in, said Jim Schack, John Schack’s son, who took over running the family business after John retired.

Case in point: the Imagine Children’s Museum, to which the Schacks donated $1 million to buy the building at 1502 Wall St. “They had a real ability to vision, but also think through what it was going to be able to take to sustain it over the long term,” said Nancy Johnson, the executive director of the museum for the past 17 years.

That has allowed the museum to build on the foundation that the Schacks had established, allowing it to draw in broad support from individuals, businesses, foundations and even some government support, she said.

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continue to grow that support base,” Johnson said.

In the Schacks, Johnson found a unique pair of partners that allowed the museum to move out of a 4,000-square-foot leased space on Colby Avenue into the museum’s first permanent home.

“They were just very open to what we believed the future of a children’s museum would be in Snohomish County,” Johnson said.

The Schacks also recognized in Johnson the ideal person to lead the museum into that future.

“They wanted to throw their support behind someone with that energy and drive to take it to the next level, if you will,” Jim Schack said.

The Schacks also gave $1 million gifts to the Everett Symphony and to renovate the Historic Everett Theatre. Other major gifts went to Everett Community College, the Everett Public Library, the Greater Everett Community Foundation, and Providence Regional Medical Center’s Pavilion for Women and Children.

“He (John) and Idamae

had very much enjoyed the Everett community, because there were a number of active individuals in the community that they were tickled to put their resources behind,” Jim Schack said.

Margaret Schack-Davis, who has lived in Montana off and on since 1964, said that spirit of giving has been passed down through the generations.

“We were encouraged to make charitable gifts in our own communities,” she said, and mentioned that her father made a contribution in her town, even though he’d never lived there.

“It wasn’t huge sums of money, but it was more than we could have done on our own at that point in our lives,” she said.

“Subsequently my husband at the time led our children to do some looking around our community and find things to do,” Schack-Davis said.

DeGroodt remembers her mother always taking time for other people even while she was raising children and running the family business.

“She drove people to radiation treatment. She took a gang of us to the library to make sure we were readers,” she said. “A lot of little small things that made a difference to one or two people, but made a difference.”

And in true Schack fashion, they did it quietly, behind the scenes, and rarely taking credit for their work.

“It never seemed to be about them, it was about building their community,” Tuohy said.

Chris Winters: 425374-4165; cwinters@ heraldnet.com. Twitter: @ Chris_At_Herald.

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Red Cross can count on Gold Bar man

By Eric Stevick Herald Writer

EVERETT — It was August 2005, the days after Hurricane Katrina.

Steve Taylor watched the images of flattened homes, flooded neighborhoods and human anguish from his TV set in Gold Bar. Some how, some way, he wanted to help.

When he read a blurb in the newspaper about a need for American Red Cross volunteers to head down south, Taylor drove to Everett to sign up. He figured he’d pack his bags and take off.

As it turned out, it took time to process papers for the new recruit.

Instead of working on the front lines, Taylor stuffed envelopes in Everett and became the master of the office copy machine.

He churned out handbooks for classes preparing people to go to the storm-battered stretches of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi.

“I was starting to wonder if I would ever get called,” he said. “I would come in every day. I just kept making more handbooks.”

Taylor eventually did get his call. He spent several weeks in Mississippi, came home for 10 days, and took another assignment to New Orleans for several months.

Since then, it has been one call after another. He’s learned to use a computer, got his first cellphone and become a frequent watcher of the Weather Channel.

Red Cross missions have taken him to areas hit by flooding, hurricanes, tornados and wildfires.

He’s been from Alaska to Florida and many states in between.

He’s witnessed the aftermath of Hurricanes Sandy and Dolly and tornados that ripped through Greensburg, Kansas, and Joplin, Missouri.

He has spent more than 900 days deployed after disasters.

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Volunteer Steve Taylor works with the Red Cross’ response to the wildfire disaster Aug. 17 in Wenatchee.

tents, warehouses and cut-rate hotel rooms.

Earlier this year, Taylor was given the Glassberg Award for lifetime achievement through the American Red Cross of Snohomish County. He missed the event.

He was in Texas helping out after flooding.

Taylor, 64, is a funny man with a long white pony tail that reaches well down his lower back.

He is retired. Ask him what he did for a career and he’ll explain that he was “a jack of all trades and a master of absolutely nothing.”

Ask him how long he’s been growing his hair and he’ll say “since the day I was born.”

For the record, his last haircut was July 2, 1976. At the time, he figured he wanted to look good for the bicentennial so he went to get a haircut. The stylist layered his hair. It looked fabulous for a day, but not so much afterward.

Taylor went out to buy a baseball

hat and has shied away from stylists since.

It would have been hard for Taylor to imagine 10 years ago that he would still be a Red Cross volunteer a decade later. He had several preconceptions he’s since discarded.

“I thought the Red Cross was a bunch of suits,” he said. “I got to meet a lot of people and realized it was not a bunch of suits. They were everybody from every walk of life.

He enjoys the camaraderie he feels in deployments with hundreds of strangers drawn together to work toward a goal of providing relief.

“It is the largest dysfunctional family you will ever run into,” he said.

It is a family that draws close, often in cramped quarters, and then heads its separate ways.

Sometimes he has reunions with old friends he’s met along the way helping in another crisis in another state.

Early on, Taylor was on the front lines of disasters.

When he was called to Pearlington, Mississippi, 40 miles east of New Orleans, after Katrina, he drove a food truck filled with hot meals and juices.

“The town was gone,” Taylor said.

Every home or business was damaged or destroyed. People were living in tents or under tarps. He watched people wheelbarrow soggy possessions out of what was left of their homes.

Taylor found satisfaction and meaning in his small role. He’d talk to the locals, many who insisted that he help others before themselves.

Taylor has seen the best in a lot of people over the years.

“It’s like you see the guy who lost everything and they say, ‘Give it to somebody who needs it,’” he said. “The whole United States is that way.”

It was that glimpse into human nature that led him to stay on

in Mississippi after Katrina. He figured he could serve as a bridge between people coming and going.

Over time and different deployments, Taylor developed an aptitude for logistics, getting what was needed and making sure it reached its intended destination quickly.

His skills and passion to help were tested in the spring of 2014 when disaster struck way too close to home.

Taylor didn’t need to board a plane when a mudslide killed 43 people in Oso. Taylor worked out of an office in north Marysville.

“I loved being on the front lines, being the go-between,” he said. “However, there was a need.”

That is one of Taylor’s greatest strengths, said Chuck Morrison, director of the Snohomish County chapter of the American Red Cross. Taylor is good at whatever he is asked to do and helps unconditionally.

“He doesn’t say, ‘No,’” Morrison said. “He is willing to do what no one sees. He works exceptionally hard and he goes anywhere we ask. And he doesn’t leave until it’s all done.”

These days, Taylor has been on the road again.

This time, he crossed the Cascade Range to help with wildfires threatening the Lake Chelan area in Eastern Washington.

When he’s done, he’ll head back to Snohomish County for his twice-a-week shifts as a volunteer in the Everett office.

“The Red Cross is not always about deploying,” Taylor said.

“It’s about helping out at home.

Ninety-five percent of what we do is at home, is working in your community, helping locally.”

For the loyal volunteer, that includes taking inventory, ordering supplies and stuffing envelopes.

“I still do it and I still get paid the same, too,” he said with a chuckle.

Eric Stevick: 425-339-3446; stevick@heraldnet.com

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Homeless learn culinary skills at Mission

By Julie Muhlstein Herald Writer

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EVERETT — Brian Simpson is learning to cook for a crowd. With nachos on the lunch menu, he is deepfrying chips made from donated tortillas.

On a mid-August morning, the 33-year-old resident of the Everett Gospel Mission took a break from the kitchen. He talked about circumstances that landed him at the shelter for homeless men, and about a training program he hopes will lead to a better life.

Simpson is a student in the mission’s Feed Hope Kitchen, a hands-on training and job placement program launched nearly two years ago. The aim of the 15-week curriculum is to give graduates the skills needed to get and keep a job in a commercial kitchen.

“I lost my job. My girlfriend and I broke up. I’ve been here about a month,” said Simpson, who in the past has worked in food service and sales.

Instruction isn’t done in a classroom, but in the kitchen of the Everett Gospel Mission Men’s Shelter.

About 16,000 meals each month — more than 500 daily — are served at the shelter.

“We’ve had somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 graduates, and as many as nine students at a time,” said Nathan Fox, the Feed Hope Kitchen and food services manager at the Everett Gospel Mission.

All but one have been shelter residents, including three graduates from the organization’s women’s shelter.

Some have found jobs through experience earned

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Nathan Fox, Feed Hope Kitchen and food services manager at the Everett Gospel Mission, stirs spaghetti sauce he and his students cooked for dinner Aug. 14 at the mission.

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Graduates of the Feed Hope Kitchen receive a food handler card and professional-quality chef’s knife and paring knife.

in the mission’s kitchen.

Fox said one man was hired for a food-preparation position at an area casino, and another worked at an espresso cafe in Everett.

Other Feed Hope Kitchen graduates have come back as volunteers or staff in the shelter’s kitchen.

“One graduate is a paid intern who cooks here on weekends. And one

graduate cooks breakfasts here,” Fox said.

Training covers basic preparation methods for meats, vegetables, stocks, sauces and dressings, along with food safety and sanitation practices. Graduates get a food handler card, and leave with what Fox called “tools of the trade” — a professional quality chef’s knife and paring knife.

“Fifteen weeks can get them one notch up, $2 or $3 up the rung, from a minimum-wage job. It’s hard to live on minimum wage,” said Fox, 40, who was previously a high school teacher.

He has also worked in fine dining and fast-food management, and as a saucier and pastry chef.

His students aren’t ready to run a commercial kitchen, “but a job as a prep cook or breakfast cook at a cafe would be very appropriate,” Fox said. “There are more institutional cooking jobs than people know, places like hospitals and assisted-living facilities.”

And the program has done catering jobs for area churches, which students can include on their resumes, Fox said.

Feed Hope Kitchen took as its model FareStart in Seattle. That culinary job training and placement program, which runs a downtown Seattle restaurant, has helped nearly

7,000 people since its start in 1992. The Everett Gospel Mission used a curriculum from Catalyst Kitchens, a nationwide network of similar efforts that includes FareStart.

At the Everett Gospel Mission, kitchen students have ranged in age from 23 to late 50s. “If they’re homeless, they may have no retirement and they don’t have savings,” Fox said.

Before coming to the Everett Gospel Mission about two years ago, Fox said he had no experience with the homeless population. “It has changed my perspective. They’re people just like you and me, but something happened,” he said. That something may have been a job loss, staggering medical bills, addiction or a divorce.

“A high percentage of the homeless are veterans,” Fox added.

Simpson, the Feed Hope Kitchen student, said he has worked as a server at high-end restaurants. “I’d like to get a kitchen job — maybe not as a chef, but I like to cook. I never would have imagined myself homeless,” he said.

After talking about the program, Simpson was back in the kitchen, where that day’s nacho lunch included cheese sauce, beef and pork, lettuce, salsa and sour cream.

Cooks in the Feed Hope Kitchen don’t strictly follow any recipes.

“We can’t count on what we’re going to get,” Fox said. “Most cooking skills are generalized. If we’re making stew, it might be beef, pork, chicken or lamb. If it’s pork stew, we might put in cans of green chilies.”

Mark Stanfield had

Learn more Everett Gospel Mission Men’s Shelter houses about 145 men each night, and serves many more at its Day Center.

Everett Gospel Mission Women & Children’s Shelter has bed space for 100 women and children.

The mission offers longterm housing for those who have completed its recovery program.

Information: 425-7402500 or www.egmission. org/ finished eating his nachos in the shelter’s dining room. “They’re pretty good — spicy, but pretty good,” said the 61-year-old Stanfield, who was awaiting a veterans housing voucher.

His favorite dish from the mission kitchen is mashed potatoes and gravy.

On the mission’s lower level is a large storage pantry, with walk-in refrigerators and freezers.

There are cases of canned food from a federal government emergency food program, and shelves of loose cans donated by individuals.

Boxes of meat, donated

by Trader Joe’s on the pull date, are immediately used or frozen. Among other major food donors are Food Services of America, Cascade Coffee, Inc., Safeway, Walmart, Pizza Hut, 7-Eleven and Naval Station Everett.

“I’ve found what an amazing community we live in,” Fox said. “We’re really blessed by the generosity of people.”

Julie Muhlstein: 425339-3460; jmuhlstein@ heraldnet.com.

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Centers adapt services to people’s needs Lutheran Community Services Northwest operates six community resource centers in Snohomish County.

By Kari Bray Herald Writer

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Donna Noble, a student support advocate with the Granite Falls School District, reads a book to 7-year-old Ashlyn Bogart during the Lutheran Community Services Back to School supply drive at the Granite Falls Family Center on Thursday.

from one city to the next.

But while Arlington staff and volunteers are looking to offer grief counseling and support groups, the Granite Falls and Lake Stevens centers are focused on new financial management classes and annual back-to-school supply drives this month.

Familias Unidas, the South Everett Neighborhood Center and the Family Support Center of South Snohomish County focus on health resources like breast cancer education, dental care and healthy eating classes.

“The nicest thing about these places is people walk in and they don’t have to take a number and they don’t have to fill out a bunch of paperwork,” Senechal said. “They can just sit down and start talking. It’s a nice first step.”

Having services in a house where people can sit down, grab a cup of coffee and ask questions is a huge help to people who don’t know where to turn, said

Malysa Johnson, program supervisor for the Lake Stevens and Granite Falls centers.

“They don’t feel like they’re coming to an establishment or a government agency or someone they can’t trust,” she said.

A typical visitor is looking for food assistance along with ideas for housing and transportation, said Liz Chigovanyika, program coordinator in Granite Falls. Her center also recently started offering drug and alcohol assessments to see where clients are on the scale of substance use, abuse or dependence and learn about treatment options.

The centers are looking for more volunteers.

They’re interested in people who are bilingual, and not just in English and Spanish. Other languages, especially Mandarin Chinese, would be helpful.

They also are looking for disabled volunteers who want to learn new skills.

Greg Hambidge, 27,

How to help To volunteer, donate or learn more about Lutheran Community Services’ resource centers, call your local center or visit their website.

Arlington Community Resource Center: 360-3867989, www.lcsnw.org/seattle/arlington.html Granite Falls Family Support Center: 360-386-9282, www.granitefallsfamilysupport.org Familias Unidas: 425-355-6005, www.familysupport. lcsnw.org/familias-unidas Family Support Center of South Snohomish County: 425-670-8984, www.lcsnw.org/seattle/lynnwood.html Lake Stevens Family Support Center: 425-397-7433, www.lakestevensfamilycenter.org South Everett Neighborhood Center: 425-355-6005, www.familysupport.lcsnw.org/senc has been volunteering at the Lake Stevens Family Support Center for about five years. He’s developmentally disabled and has gained confidence and social skills through his work. He sweeps the sidewalks, rakes the yard and takes out the trash but his favorite thing to do is go to the post office and get the center’s mail.

“I learned a lot of things,” he said. Topping his list of lessons is how to be happy and professional.

New programs, classes and groups are added to resource centers every year, Brooks said. One of the newest offerings is Juvenile Justice 101, a pilot program that started in May at the South Everett Neighborhood Center.

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The trick to serving the needs of a community is first figuring out what those needs are, said Crisann Brooks, family support director for Lutheran Community Services Northwest. The nonprofit has six resource centers in Snohomish County, and each one has adapted to offer programs that are specific to the people who use it.

The centers are especially important in rural areas where people don’t have easy access to other social service organizations. They have emergency food pantries and baby supplies, support groups and classes, and the ability to enroll people in government or nonprofit programs for food or housing.

“People can come in with all variety of needs and what we do is help connect them with resources for whatever that is,” said Julie Senechal, program coordinator for the Lake Stevens Family Support Center.

Lake Stevens was one of the first two support centers Lutheran Community Services started in the county. It opened in 1992, as did the Family Support Center of South Snohomish County in Lynnwood. The South Everett Neighborhood Center followed in 1996 and shares a building with the Familias Unidas Latino Resource Center that started in 2000.

The last two resource centers are fairly new.

The Granite Falls Family Support Center has been around since September 2012 and the Arlington Community Resource Center just opened this summer.

The core purpose of the centers is to connect people with the help they need, and that’s consistent

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Adults who have been through the juvenile courts system when a child or grandchild was arrested guide others through the process.

“Courts historically have been lacking in their information to families,” said Susan Krueger, a probation supervisor and mentor in the program. “Many families have to go in to the process cold, and it’s scary,” It’s been rewarding to help others, volunteer Martha Shegrud said.

“The moment for me was when I introduced myself to a mother and I said I had a grandson who had been through this and I just saw her whole face relax,” she said.

In the end, that’s what family resource centers are about, Brooks said.

They help people find solid ground when they’re in trouble.

“It’s about hope,” she said.

Kari Bray: 425-339-3439; kbray@heraldnet.com

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Nonprofit teaches kids how to grow food If you go

By Amy Nile Herald Writer

EVERETT — Zsofia Pasztor knows what it is to be hungry. She remembers needing help paying bills, buying food and taking care of basic necessities for her family.

That’s why she in 2009 founded Farmer Frog, a nonprofit that works with schools to grow gardens that feed students and the community while teaching kids the science of gardening.

The students and parents who work in the gardens get to take their share of the harvest home.

They also earn money to put back into their work and learn business skills by selling their produce at the Everett Mall farmer’s market and through a Community Supported Agriculture program.

“It teaches kids how you sustain something,” said Pasztor, a mother of four.

“They get to live it.”

Now, she’s is leading the all-volunteer nonprofit in building a headquarters for Farmer Frog in the Paradise Valley Conservation Area near Maltby.

Having a home will allow the nonprofit to help to more people, including those suffering from mental illnesses, recovering from substance abuse or transitioning out of prison, Pasztor said.

Pasztor, 47, learned to grow her own food when she was a girl in Hungary.

She and her husband, Zsolt, 50, immigrated to the U.S. from the formerly communist central European country in 1989.

They spent two years in an Austrian refugee camp before making their way to America.

Farmer Frog’s first fundraiser for pay for farmer educators will feature live music, games and food It’s set for 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30, at Olivia Park Elementary garden, 200 108th St. SW, Everett. The cost is $25 for adults, $15 for kids 10-18.

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Farmer Frog volunteers measure and install supports for the new Paradise Valley Farm hoop house Aug. 1. The structure is going to be an aquaponic environment, allowing fish and plant life to live symbiotically.

In the early 2000s, the couple started saving money as part of a United Way of Snohomish County program. They saved $2,000 and a sponsor added $4,000 to it.

With the money, they launched their landscaping business, Frog on a Log Parks.

“It was a hand up not a hand out,” Pasztor said.

She and her husband earned their living through the business until the economy crashed in 2008. They then found themselves filing for bankruptcy and having trouble making ends meet.

“We were happy to have a shirt on our backs,” Pasztor said. “We’ve been there, done that, get it. So that’s what drives us.”

The idea of offering a hand up instead of a hand out is something Pasztor has incorporated into her nonprofit.

“When we build on Farmer Frog it has to be that same way — a hand up,” she said. “It’s very important that people are given the option to do something for themselves.”

So Pasztor went to work doing just that.

She put in a garden at her children’s school, Everett’s Olivia Park Elementary in 2009. Like the Pasztors, many students’ families were struggling to get by during the economic recession.

Parents, kids and people in the community helped grow fruits and vegetables

to take home to eat.

“Very quickly it became an important food source,” said Pasztor, who also works as a horticulture teacher at Edmonds Community College and as a landscaping consultant.

The garden soon got too big for her to handle on her own. Pasztor met Will Allen, a farmer and former professional basketball player, and went to his sixmonth urban agriculture training in Milwaukee.

Now, she has yearround gardens at about a dozen schools across Snohomish County. She also has projects in Bellevue and Tacoma.

“It almost feels like a movement anymore,” she said.

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works with the science, technology, engineering and math curriculum for K-12 education.

Farmer Frog offers a two-week summer training program for teachers to learn how to apply the science lessons using the garden as an outdoor lab.

The hope is the experience will help students remember concepts for standardized tests.

Pasztor makes sure students are learning as they grow. She’ll even let them plant kinds of produce she knows will fail, if it’ll teach them an important lesson.

“It’s to learn, not because I say so, but because they see so,” she said.

Pasztor believes it’s important to pass down

lessons of sustainable living to the next generation and beyond.

She’s raising $3.5 million to run the school gardens and complete work on Farmer Frog’s headquarters at Paradise Farm, one of Washington’s first farms.

The Lloyd family settled at Paradise Farm in 1880 before Washington became a state. Pasztor envisions preserving the family’s history through restoration work.

“That has to be honored and showcased, “ she said. “A hundred years later I’m walking the same paths they started on. It’s incredible.”

The Lloyds donated the land for public use. Pasztor is working to finalize a long-term contract with Snohomish County to make the homestead site the new home of Farmer Frog.

She plans to clean up the property, restore the buildings, plant gardens, and care for the woods, pastures and wetlands.

“We intend on turning this into a high-value, magical place that is open to people from all walks of life,” she said.

Amy Nile: 425-339-3192; anile@heraldnet.com.

Twitter: @AmyNileReports

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Housing Hope shelters people in need

By Amy Nile Herald Writer

MONROE — Housing Hope is working to put a roof over the heads of people who are trying to get by on their own.

The nonprofit offers tools to those who have experienced homelessness and poverty, to help them move past the trauma and build a better future.

Housing Hope has 354 affordable homes at 20 sites throughout Snohomish County and Camano Island.

It has helped 257 families attain home ownership through a sweat-equity program in which people work to build their homes. There are six neighborhoods in the county that are built, or are being built, by teams of families.

“Each family’s journey is different,” said Bobby Thompson, the group’s housing director.

To accommodate varying needs, Housing Hope offers emergency shelter for up to 90 days, homeless transitional housing for up to two years, permanent rentals and opportunities for homeownership. It also offers services for families, including case management, adult education, child development, a teen parenting program, help finding employment and credit and homeownership counseling.

Housing Hope is now completing construction on its largest affordable-housing development in Snohomish County.

Monroe Family Village will have 47 apartments on West Main Street when it’s finished in October.

The $12 million development includes 14 apartments for people with very low incomes and 10 for those who are homeless.

Residents in those units will pay up to 30 percent of their income for rent.

The other 24 apartments will be rented to those with low incomes for up to 30 percent their monthly income. They are

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Housing Hope housing director Bobby Thompson (left) shows Monroe Mayor Geoffrey Thomas and others the site of a $12 million apartment complex that will offer 47 units to low-income and homeless people in Monroe on July 23.

filled on a first come, first served basis.

There are about 900 families on the waiting list to get into Housing Hope, Thompson said.

It is typically about a two-year wait.

“There’s a need that developers can’t meet,” he said.

Because many of the residents have low incomes, Housing Hope gets federal subsidies to cover the remaining cost of the rent at market rate. That creates cash flow, which the nonprofit uses to pay debt, do building maintenance and put money back into its programs.

“So it’s totally self-sustaining,” Thompson said.

The Monroe apartments are being built to face an open community space with play equipment and a small sports court, said Alex Lark, Housing Hope’s philanthropy director.

The apartments are spacious and sturdy with smart features, such as easy to replace tiled carpet. They are built by the state’s green standards, so they include low-flow faucets and toilets.

“I think they’re gorgeous,” Lark said. “They respect the dignity of our families.”

The development boasts

planter boxes so people can do their own gardening and two shared laundry rooms.

The community space has a classroom where people living in Housing Hope apartments can take adult education classes.

Other nonprofits will also be able to use it.

The classroom also has a window so people can see what’s going on in the adjacent childcare room.

“We’ve learned this was a need from other sites we’ve built,” Thompson said.

The childcare center has a garage door so it can be opened

for activities when the weather is warm.

There’s also a pantry where residents can get help with household supplies and clothing.

Once it’s completed, all Housing Hope residents in east Snohomish County can go to the Monroe site to get social services.

“We’re excited to have Housing Hope here in our community,” Monroe Mayor Geoffrey Thomas said during a recent visit to the site. “I know there’s a need.”

Amy Nile: 425-339-3192; anile@heraldnet.com. Twitter: @

Mental Health Resources Where to turn for Help & Hope The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) offers families and individuals referrals to training, classes and support groups that help people live more productive and rewarding lives.

Who we are: NAMI Snohomish County is a 501(C)3 nonprofit funded by charitable contributions from corporations and private individuals and is staffed by local volunteers.

What NAMI Snohomish County provides: We listen & relate. Our support groups provide listening ears, free resource materials, classes and peer support that’s been proven a lifeline for many affected by mental illness.

We educate: Our up-to-date education programs ensure families, individuals and educators get current information needed to successfully navigate a complex system of care.

We advocate: We help mold public policy for people with mental illness by providing resources that help assure intelligent advocacy at local, state, and national levels.

We lead: We spearhead mental health awareness events and activities, to help combat the myths and stigma while encouraging compassion and understanding for those with mental illness.

You will find numerous classes, support groups and resources on our website that help individuals, families and friends affected by mental illness understand and learn how to better relate to one another.

NAMI Snohomish County’s mission is to provide education through classes and a variety of support groups for parents and caregivers, like: “Family to Family, In Our Own Voice and Peer to Peer. You’ll also find spiritually based support groups, groups supporting individuals and families affected by incarceration in correctional institutions, and early next year we’ll open a program called “HOME FRONT” to help veterans with mental illness and their loved ones.

Limited Resources keep the state of Washington from providing greater edu­ cational and treatment solutions, so NAMI of Snohomish County was created to help those directly affected by mental illness. However, funding is required to help further this cause as well as provide greater awareness and safety for all in Snohomish County. We hope you’ll consider funding this mission with an ongoing or even onetime or contribution by visiting our website now.

Contact: NAMI of Snohomish County • P.O. Box 12487 • Everett, WA 98206 Message Phone: (425) 339-3620 • Website: www.namisnohomishcounty.org Email: nami.snohomish.county@gmail.com

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CHILDREN Arlington Kids’ Kloset, 135 S. French St., Arlington, WA, 98223, needs new or gently used clothing and coats in sizes for kids from age 4 through the teens.

Needs include new shoes, pajamas, socks, underwear, gloves, scarves and hats, personal hygiene products and books. Preschool through high school students in the Arlington, Lakewood and Darrington school districts who qualify for free or reduced-price lunches are provided with free school wardrobes. Volunteers also are needed. More information: 360-4354875, www.arlingtonkidskloset.com.

Assistance League of Everett, 5107 Evergreen Way, Everett, WA 98203, needs gift cards from local retailers for Operation School Bell, which provides new clothing for kids in need from 14 school districts in Snohomish County.

Assistance League runs a thrift store and provides financial aid to graduating high school seniors and Everett Community College students. Monetary donations are also accepted. More information: Call 425-252-3011, email contact@assistanceleagueofeverett.org or go to www. assistanceleagueofeverett.org.

Binky Patrol, which meets in a private home in Marysville, provides quilts and afghans to Snohomish County infants and children who need comfort. Volunteer knitters, quilters and crocheters are needed, as well as donations of fabric, batting, thread or money to buy sewing supplies. More information: call Ernalee Munday at 360-659-7198.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Snohomish County has Clubs in Arlington, Edmonds, Everett, Granite Falls, Lake Stevens, Lynnwood, Marysville, Monroe, Mukilteo, Snohomish, Sultan and Tulalip, plus clubs in Coupeville and Oak Harbor.

Needed are gift cards, board games, sports equipment, toys, art supplies, backpacks and healthy snacks. Donations can be dropped off at the Club’s administrative office, 9502 19th Ave. SE, Suite F, Everett, WA 98208. To volunteer or learn more, go to bgcsc.org.

Clothes For Kids, 16725 52nd Ave. W., Unit B, Lynnwood, WA 98037, expects to serve more than 4,500 Snohomish County students in need this year by providing free quality wardrobes and other resources. Needed are financial contributions, new or gently used children’s clothing and shoes appropriate for school, and new underwear, socks and toothbrushes and unopened toiletries. For additional information and the hours to drop off donations, go to www.clothesforkids.org or call 425-741-6500.

Cocoon House, 2929 Pine St., Everett, WA 98201, provides shelter, transitional housing and support services to homeless and at-risk teens. The nonprofit organization needs cash donations; gift cards from Target, Fred Meyer, restau-

WAYS TO GIVE These nonprofit groups provide services and help to children, families, seniors, students and service members — and in turn they depend on you. Consider donating or becoming a volunteer. rants, coffee shops and barber shops and hair salons; movie passes; bus passes; sleeping bags; boys shoes of all sizes and types; backpacks; hooded sweatshirts; hand warmers; MP3 players and earbuds; hair dryers; metal water bottles; umbrellas; alarm clocks; pajamas; new ankle socks; new underwear; towels; boys and girls shoes. For more information, call Chelsea Monroe at 425-259-5802 or email chelsea.monroe@cocoonhouse.org.

Davis Place Teen Center is an afterschool destination for teens in Stanwood and on Camano Island. Teens receive a healthy meal, homework help and a chance to socialize with friends. There are free music, art, cooking and babysitting classes. Volunteers are needed to teach and supervise activities. To volunteer, call 360-629-5257. Donations to support teen programs can be mailed to the Community Resources Foundation, P.O. Box 935, Stanwood, WA 98292. For more information, email director@stanwoodcamanoresources.org.

Dawson Place Child Advocacy Center, 1509 California St., Everett, WA 98201, relies on financial donations from the community to bring help and healing to abused children and their families.

More information: 425-789-3000 or dawsonplace.org.

The Everett Public Schools Foundation provides community support to strengthen academic achievement in Everett public schools. This includes classroom grants, tuition support for summer school credit recovery and full-day kindergarten tuition support. Send donations to Everett Public Schools Foundation, P.O. Box 3112, Everett, WA 98213. More information: www.epsfoundation.org.

Hand in Hand of Everett provides children with a safe, transitional place while they await foster care placement.

Young Life Lynnwood Terrace, P.O. Box 3381, Lynnwood, WA 98046, provides mentors and a safe, fun environment for middle school, high school and college students. The group also provides food and resources, especially for teen moms, kids with special needs and those from the alternative school environment.

Needed are financial donations, food, gift cards and office supplies, as well as adult Christian volunteers. More information: www.LynnwoodTerrace.YoungLife.org or 425-478-7104.

Needed are cash donations, gift cards to local retailers, non-perishable food, and pajamas, socks and underwear for kids from birth to age 12. More information: 425-374-2461; handinhandkids.org.

Kloz 4 Kidz offers free clothing and shoes to children in need in North Snohomish County. The organization is at the United Methodist Church, 5600 64th St. NE, Marysville. For an appointment, call 360-658-1021. Needed are donations of clean, new or gently used clothing for children from preschool through high school. Financial assistance also is requested for new underwear and socks.

More information: www.marysvilleumc. org/kloz4kids.shtml.

Youthville, 3505 136th St NE Suite A Marysville, WA 98271, needs volunteers for its “Incredible Years” programs, which teaches parents how to build good relationships with their children. Volunteers are needed to help prepare meals, do crafts with children or simply hold babies.

Must be 18 years or older. More info: 360-651-4444, johill@youthville.org.

Matthew House, 16207 177th Ave. SE, Monroe, is an hospitality house for children who have parents in prison. It provides food, clothing, transportation and support to families. To donate, send checks to P.O. Box 201, Monroe, WA 98272. Canned food is also accepted.

More information: Call 360-794-8720 or go to matthewhousemonroe.org.

FAMILIES All Aboard, 2913 W. Marine View Dr. in Everett, provides activities for special needs adults. They are requesting arts and crafts supplies, snacks and monetary donations. For information on how you can donate, or if you would like to volunteer, please email Cherie Estok at bookkeeper@frontier.com or call 425327-5533.

Project Linus, 5023 10th Place W., Everett, WA 98203. Snohomish County chapter volunteers provide quilts, fleece blankets and afghans for seriously ill or traumatized children, 0-18 years of age, in Snohomish County. Needed are new, homemade, quilted or tied, knitted or crocheted, machine-washable blankets.

Volunteers are needed to donate time at work parties or Make-a-Blanket days.

Donations of batting, fabric, thread, yarn, sewing notions, sewing machines and cash are needed. Donations can be dropped off at Needle & I, 4727 Evergreen Way, Everett; or Countryside Sewing and Vacuum, 14961 Chain Lake Road, Monroe; Quilting Mayhem, 1118 1st St., Snohomish. More information: 425-252-4524; projectlinus.org.

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Bethany of the Northwest Foundation, 916 Pacific Ave, 4th Floor, Everett, WA 98201, is a nonprofit organization that for 83 years has provided Alzheimer’s & dementia care, skilled nursing, and rehabilitation services for seniors and disabled people in Snohomish County.

Donations made to Bethany’s Dignity Project will address the most pressing needs at Bethany’s three Everett facilities, such as facility maintenance and renovations, rehabilitation equipment, and other

goods and services for their residents.

Donations can be mailed to P.O. Box 5128, Everett, WA 98206, or by contacting foundation Director Ken Hammond at 425-551-6403. For more information visit bethanynw.org.

Catholic Community Services, 1918 Everett Ave., Everett, WA 98201, provides veterans services, housing, foster care, layette services for expectant and new mothers, and mental health and supportive case management services to vulnerable populations. Needed are housewares, towels, bedding and cleaning supplies, as well as financial donations and grocery, clothing and gas gift cards. Donations of toys, coats and school supplies are appreciated for children in foster care. More information: 425-257-2111, ask for Debra Mazick, or visit www.ccsww.org.

Domestic Violence Services of Snohomish County, P.O. Box 7, Everett, WA 98206, provides services to victims of domestic violence and their children, including a 24-hour crisis hotline, confidential emergency shelter, supportive housing, legal advocacy, advocacy-based support groups and children’s programs. The organization’s New & Again Thrift Shoppe, 3116 Rucker Ave., Everett, provides free clothing, furniture and household items to clients and their children. Volunteer opportunities and a list of needed items are available at dvs-snoco.org, although the shelter always has a need for new white towels and full-size toiletries. More information: 425-259-2827, ext. 1024.

Everett Gospel Mission offers emergency shelter and services that meet basic needs. Monetary donations can be mailed to P.O. Box 423, Everett, WA 98206. Other donations can be dropped off at the men’s shelter, 3711 Smith Ave., Everett. More information: egmission.org, call 425-740-2500.

Evergreen Recovery Centers, 2601 Summit Ave., Everett, WA 98201, is a chemical dependency treatment organization providing housing and addiction recovery services for low-income pregnant women, mothers with young children, and men. More information: evergreenmanor.org, call 425-258-2407.

Habitat for Humanity of Snohomish County relies on volunteers and cash donations. The organization seeks volunteers for construction work, office work and to help in stores, as well as donated furniture, appliances, construction materials and tools such as powerwashers, pruning shears, gutter scoops, lawnmowers, chainsaws, ladders, cordless drills and fire extinguishers. Habitat for Humanity operates two thrift stores at 2302 Broadway in Everett and at 16929 Highway 99 in Lynnwood. Volunteer or donate online at www.habitatsnohomish. org, or call 425-258-6289.

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WAYS TO GIVE low-income and homeless families in Snohomish County and on Camano Island. Donations can be dropped off at 5908 Evergreen Way, Everett. Needed are gift cards for groceries, kitchen, bath and laundry supplies, and essentials for babies and toddlers. A wish list of specific needs is at housinghope.org or call 425347-6556.

The Family Shelter, a program of Interfaith Association of NW Washington, builds paths toward hope and stability for families experiencing homelessness in Snohomish County. The organization provides temporary shelter and other programs for one and two-parent families with children. Needed are gas and grocery cards, small household items, hygiene supplies and diapers. Volunteers are always welcome. More information: 425-252-6672 or www.interfaithwa.org Next Step Pregnancy Services, 17602 Highway 99, Suite 170, Lynnwood, WA 98037, helps single mothers and low-income families. Needed are diapers, baby wipes, baby clothes, blankets, booties and bibs. More information: 425329-4569; nextstepnw.com.

The Pregnancy Resource Center of Snohomish County, 4310 Hoyt Ave., Everett, WA 98203, provides free assistance to single moms and lowincome families with pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, baby clothes, baby wipes and diapers, and childbirth and baby care classes. The center has been serving the greater Everett community for 30 years, with more than 1,400 visitors a year to the Baby Boutique. For information on how to help, call 425-366-7567 or go to www.realchoices.com.

Salvation Army of Snohomish County, 2525 Rucker Ave., Everett, WA 98201, is in need of donations of nonperishable food items for its food bank and monetary donations. To arrange for a truck to pick up donations, call 800-SATruck (800-728-7825). More information: 425-259-8129.

Sky Valley Family and Community Resource Center, 701 First St./P.O. Box 268, Sultan, WA 98294, operated by Volunteers of America, needs cash and nonperishable food items for its food bank and the senior center, or just monetary donations for Sky Valley Services, which provides various services for families in need. Volunteer drivers are needed for the food bank and volunteers are also needed for cooking and serving at the senior center and answering phones at the front desk. More information: 360793-2400; voaww.org.

Snohomish County Younglives, PO Box 1375 Lake Stevens, WA 98258, is a community outreach program providing mentoring for teen moms living in pov-

erty. They have requested donations of diapers and baby wipes. They also accept monetary donations. Contact director Alisha Perry at 425-268-2236 for more information.

South Everett Neighborhood Center and Familias Unidas, 215 W. Mukilteo Blvd. Everett, WA, 98203, are family support centers of Lutheran Community Services Northwest. Needs include volunteers, cash donations, new jackets, school supplies and office supplies. More information: 425-355-6005, senc.familiasunidaseverett.com or email Katie Dixon at kdixon@lcsnw.org.

Stanwood-Camano Community Resource Center, 9612 271st St. NW Stanwood, offers emergency funds to prevent eviction and the disconnection of essential services as well as free English, parenting and family budgeting classes.

A mobile dental clinic provides care to low-income adults. Morgan’s Tales Used Bookstore provides job training for teens and young adults with disabilities. Donations to support programs can be mailed to the Community Resources Foundation, P.O. Box 935, Stanwood, WA 98292.

More information: www.stanwoodcamanoresources.org, 360-629-5257 or email director@stanwoodcamanoresources.org.

Victim Support Services, P.O. Box 1949, Everett, WA 98206, provides limited emergency financial assistance to crime victims who need gas, grocery or hardware store gift cards. Call 800-3467555 or 425-252-6081. To learn more about services and other ways to help, go to victimsupportservices.org.

COMMUNITY The American Red Cross helps families and communities faced with emergencies and relies on volunteers and donors. The Red Cross provides for the immediate basic needs like food, shelter, clothing, health and emotional support of people impacted by fires, flood and other disasters as well as follow-up services.

The organization offers preparedness, health and safety courses and assists members of the armed forces and their families. To support the Red Cross, visit www.redcross.org or call 1-800-REDCROSS. For more information on the Red Cross serving Snohomish County, visit www.redcross.org/local/wa/northwestregion. To volunteer, call 425-740-2327.

Annie’s Kitchen provides a free community dinner every Wednesday evening at 5 p.m. at Edmonds Lutheran Church, 23525 84th Ave. W., Edmonds, WA 98026. People are needed to help prepare the dinner and pick up donations. More information: 425-776-2835 or annieskitchen.edmondslutheran.org.

Hands Together provides weekly brown-bag lunches at the Arlington Food Bank. Monetary donations can be sent to Hands Together c/o Arlington United Church, P.O. Box 266, Arlington, WA 98223. To volunteer, call 360-435-3259.

Hospital gift shop: The nonprofit Providence General Children’s Association needs volunteers at the Providence Regional Medical Center gift shops at the Pacific and Colby campuses for four-hour shifts, day or evening, one or more times per month. Gift shop proceeds benefit Northwest children in need. Must complete hospital volunteer forms, TB test, background check and training. More info: Maureen Welly, 425-348-9433.

National Alliance on Mental Illness of Snohomish County, P.O. Box 12487, Everett, WA 98206, is a grassroots organization dedicated to providing support, education and advocacy to improve the lives of people with severe mental illnesses and their families. More information or to make a financial donation: 425-339-3620 or namisnohomishcounty. org.

Neighbors in Need at Trinity Lutheran Church, 6215 196th St. SW, Lynnwood, needs clothing for men, women and children as well as peanut butter, canned tuna and other canned goods. Volunteers are needed. The program provides breakfast, showers, a nurse’s care, haircuts, food and clothing each Saturday morning from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.. More information: 425-778-2159 or www.neighbors-in-need.com.

Safe Harbor Free Clinic needs volunteer help from medical care providers and people able to help with data entry. The free clinic is open 5:30-8:30 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7209 265th St. NW, Suite 203, in Stanwood.

The organization relies on donations and volunteers to serve the medical and dental needs of more than 1,600 patients each year. Needed are medical supplies in good condition, dinners for volunteers and a slightly used ultrasound machine.

To donate, call 425-870-7384 or go to safeharborfreeclinic.org.

ships are ongoing needs. Checks can be sent to P.O. Box 102, Stanwood, WA 98292. More information: Call 360348-7425 or find Stanwood Therapeutic Riding on Facebook.

Take the Next Step is a faith-based resource center in Monroe that offers help, including rent and utility assistance, to people in the Skykomish River valley.

Provided are sack lunches, emergency gas cards, bus tickets, warm clothes, a computer lab, mentoring, a community dinner on Tuesdays, community classes, a teen parent group and after-school tutoring. Needed are volunteers to help children and cash donations. Send checks to 202 S. Sams St., Monroe, WA 98272.

More information: 360-794-1022 or thenextstepmonroe.org.

United Way of Snohomish County, 3120 McDougall Ave., Suite 200, Everett, WA 98201, supports 106 programs at 40 nonprofits that provide education and health and human services. It has been operating for 75 years. Snohomish County residents can give to the local community fund or find local volunteer opportunities by clicking on the “give” or “volunteer” buttons at uwsc.org. More information: info@uwsc.org.

Village Community Services, 3210 Smokey Point Drive, Suite 200, Arlington, WA 98223, provides residential and vocational services to Snohomish County adults with disabilities. Needed are monetary donations and volunteer board members. This year’s priorities include job readiness for young adults with disabilities who are graduating from the school system. To donate, email Michelle Dietz at mdietz@villagecommunitysvcs.org or call 360-653-7752 ext. 14.

Volunteer Literacy Program at Everett Community College needs volunteer tutors and classroom assistants.

The program supports adult learners in the pursuit of high school diplomas, GEDs and English language development. Call 425-388-9085 or email vlp@everettcc. edu.

St. Vincent de Paul, 6424 Broadway Everett, WA 98203, provides help with food, utilities, rent, clothing, furniture, household items and more. Assistance line is 425-355-3504 ext. 3. Hours: Monday-Friday 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. For those who would like to donate or volunteer please call 425-355-3504 ext. 2.

YMCA of Snohomish County has branches in Everett, Marysville, Mill Creek, Monroe and Mukilteo and Big Brothers Big Sisters affiliates that focus on youth development, healthy living, social responsibility and strengthening communities. To donate go to www. ymca-snoco.org/donate or to volunteer go to www.ymca-snoco.org/volunteer.

Stanwood Therapeutic Riding is a nonprofit agency serving Snohomish, Island and Skagit counties. It provides people with special needs the opportunity to ride and interact with horses.

Saddles and donations toward horses’ board, veterinary bills and rider scholar-

YWCA of Seattle, King, Snohomish County, 3301 Broadway Everett, WA, 98201, provides housing and support services. Hours: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, please call Luanne Kunz at 425-258-2766 ext 150, or go to ywcaworks.org.

ACTIVE DUTY AND VETERANS Heartbeat: Serving Wounded Warriors, a statewide nonprofit organization based at P.O. Box 704 Snohomish, WA 98291, provides emergency assistance, therapeutic services and morale-building programs for wounded service members and their families. More information: 425931-1047, heartbeatforwarriors.org or janice@heartbeatforwarriors.org.

Stanwood-Camano Hero Quilters provides quilts for the American Hero Quilts project. The quilts are given to wounded soldiers at Joint Base LewisMcChord and sent to military hospitals in Afghanistan. People can help sew or donate money to American Hero Quilts, www.americanheroquilts.com. More information: sharonsseams2b@yahoo. com.

Lake Washington & Everett Council Navy League of the United States.

To make a donation, go to lakewashnlus. org.

Wounded Warrior Project focuses on wounded service members returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq. Financial donations are needed. More information: www.woundedwarriorproject.org.

Fallen Hero Portrait Project needs monetary donations to keep the program going. Artist Mike Reagan gives free portraits to families of people who died serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. For more information, go to fallenheroesproject. org.

COLLEGE STUDENTS The Edmonds Community College Foundation supports students and employees at Edmonds Community College by providing scholarships and emergency funding for students, grants for college programs and advocacy for the college.

Donations to support the foundation and scholarship awards for students with financial need can be made online at www.edcc.edu/foundation or mailed to Edmonds Community College Foundation, 20000 68th Ave. W., Lynnwood, WA 98036. More information: 425-640-1274 or email foundation@edcc.edu.

Everett Community College Foundation, 2000 Tower St., Everett, WA 98201, provides scholarship support to students and financial resources to faculty and staff. Local business leaders, individuals and alumni can make a difference in the lives of students by contributing an investment of time, talent and financial means in support of academic excellence and student success. More information:

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Mukilteo Food Bank, 4514 84th St. SW, Mukilteo, WA 98275, needs donations of food and baby supplies dropped off at Mukilteo Presbyterian Church. More information: 425-366-8229 or legacy. mukilteofoodbank.org.

SENIORS Senior Services of Snohomish County, 11627 Airport Road, Suite B, Everett WA 98204-8714, is a nonprofit that provides nutrition, housing, transportation and information resources to 38,000 people each year. Cash donations are needed to help feed homebound seniors through Meals on Wheels. Donations can be mailed or made online at sssc.org. More information: 425-355-1112.

FOOD BANKS Arlington Community Food Bank, 19118 63rd Ave. NE, Arlington, WA 98223, needs nonperishable food, cash donations and volunteers, especially truck drivers. For days and hours, go to www.arlingtonwafoodbank.org. For more information or to volunteer, call 360-435-1631.

Concern for Neighbors Food Bank, 4700 228th St. SW, Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043, needs food and cash to provide meals and financial assistance for clients. For information on donations, go to concern4neighborsfb.org or call 425-778-7227.

The Carol Rowe Memorial Food Bank is at Edmonds United Methodist Church, 828 Caspers St., Edmonds, WA 98020. Food and cash are needed. Donations are accepted 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily. Perishible donations are accepted from 6 to 10 a.m. on Monday and 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday More information: 425-778-5833 or edmondsumc.org/foodbank.

Darrington Food Bank, at First Baptist Church on Highway 530 in Darrington, is open the first and third full weeks of each month. Hours are 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday. To make a monetary donation, give nonperishable food or volunteer, call 360-436-9603.

Lynnwood Food Bank, 5320 176th St. SW, Lynnwood, WA 98037, serves residents in the 98036, 98037 and 98087 ZIP codes. The food bank needs nonperishable food and monetary donations and also accepts fresh produce from gardens. Volunteer truck drivers are needed. More information: 425-745-1635 or www.lynnwoodfoodbank.org.

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Marysville Community Food Bank and Toy Store, 4150 88th St. NE, Marysville, WA 98270, needs food and cash. Donations are accepted Tuesday afternoons and Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings at the food bank. Volunteers are always needed. Checks can be mailed to Marysville Community Food Bank, P.O. Box 917, Marysville, WA 98270. Call 360-658-1054 or go to www.marysvillefoodbank.org for more information.

Maltby Food Bank, 21104 86th Ave. SE, Snohomish, WA 98296, provides food for families. The food bank is open from 2 to 5 p.m. on Thursdays. Donations of food and cash are needed. More information: 360-668-7900 or maltbyfoodbank.org.

Mill Creek Food Bank, 17903 Bothell-Everett Highway, Suite E-101, Mill Creek, WA 98012, provides food for families from 4 to 7 p.m. on Thursdays. Donations of food and cash are needed. More

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Lake Stevens Community Food Bank, 2111 117th Ave. NE. Lake Stevens, WA 98258, provides food to about 300 families every month. The food bank needs nonperishable food and monetary donations. Donations are accepted at the facility in the basement of the Ebenezer Lutheran Church from 9 to 11 a.m. Monday through Thursday or checks can be sent to P.O. Box 1031, Lake Stevens, WA, 98258.

More information: 425-334-3430, www.lakestevensfoodbank.org.

Salt of the Earth Food Bank has eight locations in Snohomish County and feeds more than 6,000 people each month. Volunteers are needed to pick up, sort and distribute food. Food and monetary donations should be mailed to Salt of the Earth Food Bank, 2908 118th Place SE, Everett, WA 98208.

All donations are tax deductible. More information: 425-355-1042 or saltoftheearthfoodbank.org.

Sky Valley Food Bank of Monroe is collecting food and cash donations; about 1,500 families are served every month. Donations can be dropped off Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at 233 Sky River Parkway, Monroe. Monetary donations, used to buy food at bulk prices, can be mailed to Sky Valley Food Bank, P.O. Box 724, Monroe, WA 98272. More information: 360-794-7959 or svfoodbank.org.

Snohomish Community Food Bank, 1330 Ferguson Park Road, Snohomish, provides food to families who live within the boundaries of the Snohomish School District. Food services are provided from 3 to 6:45 on Tuesdays and from 10 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. Fridays. The food bank is open to accept donations from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Checks can be mailed to P.O. Box 1364, Snohomish, WA 98291.

More information: 360-568-7993, snohomishfoodbank.org.

Stanwood Camano Food Bank and Thrift Store, 27030 102nd Ave. NW, accepts donations of nonperishable food and money between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Fresh garden produce is needed and can be dropped off at the food bank during open hours or after hours at the thrift store.

Checks can be mailed to P.O. Box 1285, Stanwood, WA 98292. More information: 360-629-2789 or www.stanwoodcamanofoodbank.org.

Volunteers of America Western Washington is at 1230 Broadway, Everett, WA 98201. VOA provides food to more than 3,300 households each month, including hundreds of home food deliveries to seniors. It provides housing for families in crisis and women with children, and runs four preschools for low-income children. Checks can be mailed to P.O. Box 839, Everett, WA 98206. Volunteers are also needed; contact Katie Prettyman, kprettyman@ voaww.org. More information: 425-259-3191 or voaww.org.

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FUNDRAISERS Major nonprofit groups in Snohomish County plan the following fund-raising events in the coming months. The Greater Everett Community Foundation’s website also has an events calendar. See that list or submit an event at: greatereverettcf.org/connect/calendar-fundraising-events.

Camano Center’s Annual Gala Auction and Dinner, “Evening by the Sea” 5-9 p.m. Sept. 19 Camano Center, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island 336-387-0222 or auction@ camanocenter.org camanocenter.org/event/ gala-auction-dinner/

All events Tulalip Resort Casino 10200 Quil Ceda Blvd., Tulalip washington.providence.org/ donate/providence-generalfoundation/events/festivalof-trees/ 425-258-7500 or 425-2587999 American Red Cross Snohomish County Chapter 20th annual Real Heroes Breakfast 7-9 a.m. Dec. 10 Tulalip Resort Casino Orca Ballroom 10200 Quil Ceda Blvd., Tulalip 206-726-3543 or kayla. lehrman@redcross.org www.redcross.org/news/ event/wa/everett/2015Heroes-Breakfast

United Way of Snohomish County’s Spirit of Snohomish County Breakfast 7:30-9 a.m. Sept. 24 Tulalip Resort Casino 10200 Quil Ceda Blvd., Tulalip 425-374-5570 or events@ uwsc.org. www.uwsc.org/spiritbreakfast. php Boys & Girls Clubs of Snohomish County Reach for the Stars Grand Gala Auction: 5:30 p.m. Sept. 26 Tulalip Resort Casino 10200 Quil Ceda Blvd., Tulalip 425-258-2436 or gala@bgcsc.org/ bgcsc.org/events/ Community Foundation Possibilities Breakfast 7-9 a.m. Oct. 1 Xfinity Arena Edward D. Hansen Conference Center 2000 Hewitt Ave., Everett 425- 212-4056 or Victoria@ greatereverettcf.org greatereverettcf.org/ Cocoon House annual “An Evening in Silk” dinner and auction 6-9 p.m. Oct. 9 Tulalip Resort Casino 10200 Quil Ceda Blvd., Tulalip 425-259-5802 ext. 110 or chelsea.monroe@ cocoonhouse.org secure.qgiv.com/for/ cocoonhouse/event/765071/ YMCA of Snohomish County Bright Futures Benefit Auction 5:30 p.m. Oct. 10 Xfinity Arena Edward D.

H’Arts Art Auction, benefits the Schack Art Center 5 p.m. Feb. 27, 2016 Xfinity Arena Edward D. Hansen Conference Center 2000 Hewitt Ave., Everett 425-259-5050 or artsinfo@ schack.org www.schack.org

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Jeff Ecklund (left) and Neil Woodruff share a moment after Woodruff received an award at the 2013 American Red Cross Real Heroes Breakfast for keeping Ecklund’s son, Daniel, alive following a tragic skateboard accident that ultimately claimed the boy’s life. This year’s heroes breakfast is set for Dec. 10 at the Tulalip Resort Casino.

Hansen Conference Center 2000 Hewitt Ave., Everett 425-374-5718 or mallen@ ymca-snoco.org ymca-snoco.org/locations/ Everett/bright-futures-auction. ashx?p=1208 Breakfast With Bethany, benefits Bethany of the Northwest Foundation 7-8:30 a.m. Oct. 14 Holiday Inn Downtown Everett 3105 Pine St., Everett 425-551-6340 or julier@

bethanynw.org bethanynw.org/ wordpress/?page_id=25 KSER Voice of the Community Award Breakfast 7-9 a.m. Oct. 20 Tulalip Resort Casino Orca Ballroom 10200 Quil Ceda Blvd., Tulalip 425-303-9070 www.kser.org/content/kservoice-community Volunteers of America Western Washington Inspire

Hope Luncheon Noon Oct. 21 Lynnwood Convention Center 3711 196th St. SW, Lynnwood 425-259-3191 www.voaww.org Camp Fire USA, Snohomish County Council, WoHeLo Luncheon 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Nov. 4 Holiday Inn Downtown Everett 3105 Pine St., Everett 425-258-5437 or mdeal@ campfiresnoco.org

www.campfiresnoco.org/ luncheon/ Festival of Trees, benefits Providence General Foundation that supports children’s services at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett Opening night: 6-9 p.m. Dec. 1 Community open house (free): 1-6 p.m. Dec. 2 Gala dinner and auction: 6-10 p.m. Dec. 4 Teddy bear breakfast: 9-10:30 a.m. Dec. 5

Senior Services of Snohomish County fundraising dinner and rock concert 6-9 p.m. March 4, 2016 Xfinity Arena Edward D. Hansen Conference Center 2000 Hewitt Ave., Everett 425-290-1262 or jduncan@ sssc.org www.sssc.org/index Everett Public Schools Foundation Benefit Breakfast 7:15 a.m. March 9, 2016 Xfinity Arena Edward D. Hansen Conference Center 2000 Hewitt Ave., Everett 425-385-4695 or khansen@ everettsd.org www.everettsd.org/Page/4812 — Compiled by Herald staff

“We Raise Our Hands”

Supporting innovative libraries in Snohomish & Island County.

The Tulalip Tribes Charitable Contribution Funds program has assisted over 245 charitable organizations with over 63 million dollars since 1993 working in partnership with the surrounding communities including Marysville, Everett and Snohomish County to make a positive difference. The Tulalip Tribes strives to work together with the community to give benefits back to others to help build a stronger neighborhood. That’s why, in Tulalip, it is traditional to “raise our hands” to applaud and give thanks to those who have given to us. We “raise our hands” to the numerous organizations in our region that contribute to our communities.

Thanks to the generous spirits of individuals, families, businesses and corporations, the Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation supports innovative library services, STEM-related programs and early literacy efforts across Snohomish and Island counties.

Making a difference.

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For more information visit our website

http://www.tulalipcares.org/

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