Thanksgiving - Make a Difference

I am working with a team of people planning to support a Thanksgiving meal for the Sun Valley community on Saturday, November 21 starting at 3:00 PM. We are looking for volunteers to help purchase and prepare the food, as well as serve and support the event. As many of you know, Sun Valley is an urban Denver neighborhood that is one of the highest poverty and crime areas in the state. With this event, we hope to continue the great outreach Age Sandoval and his team from Tha Myx have done over the past few years.

We expect to serve close to 300 people from the community at the meal. To help us with planning, and to make it easier for me to count, we're asking people to sign up to provide food for 10 people (or 20 or 30, etc) in one or more of the categories below:
NUMBERS UPDATED 11/12/09 2:00 PM

	To Serve 300	Qty Still Needed	Currently
	(1 = 10 servings)	(1=10 servings)	Feeding
Turkey	30	15	150
Stuffing	30	19	110
Potatoes	30	19	110
Green Beans	30	16	140
Bread	30	10	200
Dessert	30	9	210
Drinks	30	5	250
Cups	30

If you could let me know if and how you would be interested in supporting this event, it would really help our planning. For example, if you could make potatoes for 30 people, please respond on the checklist for "Potatoes - Qty 3" which will mean that you are choosing to do Potatoes for 30 people. I've put the quantities in the checklist assuming each donation will serve 10 people. Once we get a solid list of contributors, we'll start making detailed logistic plans about pick-up, delivery, and the meal itself. I will send out updates along the way!

Support in any way you can - if you want to just donate - you can send me a check or drop food at my house and we'll make sure it gets prepared. If you just want to cook - we'll make it easy for you to drop it off at my house.

There's no better way to increase your gratitude than by increasing someone else's. Believe it or not - a helping of mashed potatoes to someone says "You are loved."

**NOTE: Saying yes to donating food or $$ - doesn't mean you need to participate for serving...only that you are willing to sign up for food. We'll update more details on actual serving in the next week or so.