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The Season of Giving |
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ORANGE = EGNARO The sound is deafening. In the post-Thanksgiving haze of sleeping babies and whisperng adults tip-toeing on sock feet, the plastic-on-plastic rumbling of the Boggle game sounds like a string of exploding M-80s, inside of a metal trash can, attached to a megaphone system, mounted on top of a steamroller flattening a 10-foot-thick tower of bubble-wrap. |
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Jennifer has resorted to shaking it under the table, holding it under a pillow, in an attempt to muffle the sound. How many ways can you spell “hilarious?” Everyone imagines spelling “fructiferous” (fruit-bearing), “eudemonia”(happiness), and “supercalifragilisticexpialidocius” but the truth is we’re mostly scoring words like “see,” “hat,” “hats,” and “hatsee.” In a late round gamble I proudly announce “quj” (according to Sir Isaac Newton, “quj” was the sound the apple made when it hit him on the head), but eight-year-old Fiona calls my bluff and assesses negative 400 points as a penalty. She then awards my sister Lauren 500 points for being wavy-haired (cymotrichous), and 10,000 points for Quincy the dog because he enjoys being petted. Meanwhile, her twin sister Simone takes us all to school with a correct spelling of “sleighride.” Looks like one thing Santa won’t need to bring this year is a dictionary. Enjoy and be Fruitful! See your regional mix here. -Jeff Koelemay Fruit Forwarding a Hit!
FruitGuys' Erik Muller and his four-year-old son Niko brought the first load of FruitCrates to Family House. Family House provides a home away from home for low-income children and their families who come to San Francisco for treatment of serious illnesses such as cancer. Their two locations house about 30 families and provide private living space as well as community support. The donated fruit will provide nutritious snacks for these families until the end of January.
The Riley Center, another FruitCrate recipient, provides shelter and services for abused women with children. Fruit was distributed at both their emergency shelter and a transitional home where the pantry is now stocked for mothers and their families. East Coast clients donated their crates to City Harvest in New York City, a multi-program agency that calls itself a “food rescue program.” Cecelia at the Conference of State Bank Supervisors in Washington DC sent their fruit to City Harvest. “I went on their website and they had some good programs so we picked them.” She said “we’ll definitely do it again for the Christmas holiday”. The Greater Chicago Food Depository, which supplies food through 600 different pantries and soup kitchens to 500,000 people, one third of them children, stocked the donated fruit on the shelves of their Mini-Mart, a store-like food pantry. “The quality of the fruit was outstanding,” said Tom Hayes of the Food Resources Directory. “We're glad to have it.” FruitGuys customers are also gathering resources for their communities in other ways. Besides donating their holiday week fruit, employees at Sitzman Morris, an insurance brokerage in Oakland, CA are having an “Adopt-A-Family” program. Many customers are participating in toy, coat or food drives. John Curry of the San Francisco Food Bank said their clients value the fresh fruit because “it provides a sense of normalcy, it’s something that they would pick up if they went to the grocery store themselves.” If your office is closed or minimally staffed over the Christmas and New Year’s week holidays (or any other time of year), you can forward your fruit through our Donate-A-Crate Program. Just contact FruitGuys customer service (1-877-FRUIT-ME) or info@fruitguys.com to donate - or postpone - your holiday week deliveries. And remember that your donation is tax deductible. If everyone in the village donates a thread, the poor man has a shirt. -Heidi Lewis
Wellness: Well-Spoken and Widely-Used
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nebulous term. At The FruitGuys, we like the definition supplied by
our friends at The UC Berkeley Wellness Letter, the award-winning
fitness and nutrition newsletter that
we provide our clients:
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