Friday, April 19, 2013
A Warrington family has started a new program that wraps shoeboxes stuffed with gifts for needy children throughout Bucks County.
Every child has heard it, and every mother has said it. When the kids complain that they didn't get enough presents, it's time to bust out the familiar, "Do you know there are children out there who don't get anything on their birthday?" Christa Nielsen was in the middle of uttering that time-tested adage when the meaning behind those words stopped her in her tracks. "I thought to myself, 'Why not help those kids have something on their birthday?'" said Nielsen. Within days, Nielsen and her daughters Jonna and Eva had come up with the idea of Operation Birthday Box. Nielsen takes $10 to the local dollar store, gets as many gifts as possible, and she and her daughters put them in a shoebox and wrap it for needy children. She suggested the …
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Tickets are available for the annual house tour, a church-sponsored fundraiser to benefit the Bucks County Housing Group's homeless shelter in Doylestown.
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
The butter cookies are baked, the greens arranged, the wreaths hung and the ornaments polished. Everything is ready for the 19th annual Christmas in Doylestown House Tour, which returns this weekend. The 2012 tour will take visitors on a journey through four Doylestown homes, all carefully decorated for the holidays. Since 1992, the church-sponsored tour has offered a peek inside some of Doylestown's lovely homes, showcasing historic renovation, home decor and holiday decorating all at once. "For a lot of people, this is how they start their holidays. It isn't Black Friday – it's going on the house tour," Kay Johnson said before last year's tour. The co-chair of the event has been involved with it from the beginning. This year's tour runs…
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Downtown merchants will collect unwrapped toys, toiletries and more on Friday night, as part of their next community service project.
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Last month, they filled a bus with food. This month, they want to fill a bus with soul food - books, toys, toiletries and more, for children and teens who might not otherwise receive gifts this holiday season. The merchants of downtown Doylestown are partnering again this month with the DART bus and the Bucks County Housing Group to help local needy children, said Nerice Kendter. Kendter owns Busy Bee Toys and is an active member of the merchants' group. In November, the merchants held a "Fill the Bus" event on First Friday to collect food donations for the Bucks County Housing Group. The agency offers services across the county, including a homeless shelter and food pantry in Doylestown. On Friday night, the DART bus will again be parked …
Thursday, May 17, 2012
But the Doylestown Food Pantry still will need more donations to help its clients make it through the summer.
The bags and boxes kept coming, and just when they thought all the food had been delivered, a red pickup truck pulled up the drive, its bed stuffed full of grocery bags. That was the scene Thursday at the Doylestown Food Pantry, as one local firm wrapped up its food drive for the pantry. Those who help hand out the food said the donations came not a minute too soon. "It was close to empty when we arrived. But it won't be after tonight," said Gina Rubel, standing under the spreading trees in the serene front yard of the Bucks County Housing Group's homeless shelter. The Furia Rubel communications firm held a food drive to restock the Doylestown pantry, which is located at the homeless shelter and run by the Housing Group. Friends, clients…
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The firm is partnering with the Bucks County Housing Group to stock the Doylestown Food Pantry.
Summer is a time when many Doylestown-area families plan vacations, maybe to the shore, or maybe to a place like Disney World. For many struggling area families, however - especially children - summer actually puts them at more risk. That's because school is out, and kids who get free breakfasts and lunches may have to go without those meals. That won't happen if the women of Furia Rubel can help it. The all-women communications firm based in Doylestown Township is partnering with the Bucks County Housing Group to stock the Doylestown Food Pantry. They are kicking off the “Hunger Doesn’t Take A Vacation” food drive today at the pantry. "In an effort to stop hunger in our area, we are asking our friends to join us in supporting the Bucks …
Friday, November 18, 2011
A donation will enter you to win a concert party or a private music lesson.
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Friday, November 18, 2011
Musician and Doylestown School of Rock owner Michael Morpurgo spent 25 years honing his craft in concert venues around the world before he discovered the magic of teaching kids to play real, live rock shows. Now, he uses his Schools of Rock to instruct adults and kids age 7 to 17 on how to rock on stage and in life. In turn, Morpurgo has drawn up a new lesson plan for his students…how Rock and Roll can feed the hungry. “I was amazed when I heard how empty the local food banks are right now,” said Morpurgo. “So I decided to prove to my students that Rock and Roll is a way to make a difference.” To drive his point home, he is accepting non-perishable food donations at his school in Doylestown. His goal is to raise a half-ton of food for …
Monday, September 12, 2011
A Doylestown Girl Scout compiled a book of healthy recipes using fresh produce for food pantry clients in Bucks County.
When hungry people in Central Bucks turn to local food pantries for help, they usually find less nutritious, processed food, but a Doylestown girl is trying to change that. Emilee Schluth has designed a cookbook of simple but healthy recipes to give to people who come to area food pantries for help feeding their families. She got the idea for the cookbook focusing on fresh foods earlier this year when she helped out with a food drive her Girl Scout troop ran for the Bucks County Housing Group’s Doylestown pantry. Most of the canned and prepackaged prepared foods donated to the pantry are high in fats and sodium, she discovered. “I just noticed that it was a lot of processed food,” said Emilee, an eighth grader at Lenape Middle School. That…
Operation Birthday Box
7:19 am on Saturday, April 20, 2013
We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to Jim Boyle and The Doylestown Patch for running our story. With this exposure, we hope to further our mission to help even more children in need living in Bucks County. If you would like to support OBB, please message us via our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/OperationBirthdayBox Thank you! Christa and Jonna Nielsen more ›