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Special Thanks to:

Henkle Schueler-Bunnell Hill Development, Lebanon - for donating the use of their warehouse w/ loading docks

Beth Gully - B.T. Graphics, West Chester, Ohio for our poster and logo designs

Lebanon Area Chamber Young Professionals

All School Districts in Warren County & the Warren County Career Center

Lebanon Schools Superintendent Mark North

Warren County United Way

Warren County Community Services for helping recruit volunteer manpower

All Participating Local Governments and Businesses

NE Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce Emerging Leaders

Jim Volkerding & Debbie Chamber and their Warren County Building Services Staff

 

AND TO ALL OF THE RESIDENTS WHO CARE ENOUGH TO BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR!

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Text Box: Special Thanks to: Henkle Schueler-Bunnell Hill Development, Lebanon - for donating the use of their warehouse w/ loading docks Beth Gully - B.T. Graphics, West Chester, Ohio for our poster and logo designs Lebanon Area Chamber Young Professionals All School Districts in Warren County & the Warren County Career Center Lebanon Schools Superintendent Mark North Warren County United Way Warren County Community Services for helping recruit volunteer manpower All Participating Local Governments and Businesses NE Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce Emerging Leaders Jim Volkerding & Debbie Chamber and their Warren County Building Services Staff   AND TO ALL OF THE RESIDENTS WHO CARE ENOUGH TO BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR!               Text Box:   Text Box:     “Fighting Hunger…            Feeding Hope”        Neighbor helping Neighbor!     Text Box:   Home       How to Help      Barrel Locations      Progress Report      Schools     Who's Joined?     Contact Us                                                                                                                                     Text Box: “Our mission is to work together as a community and as neighbor helping neighbor to effectively feed people in need.”  

Text Box: Connect Text Box:  Warren County Board of Commissioners, 406 Justice Drive, Lebanon, OH 45036 513-695-1250

Text Box: Click on the Logo Links below to learn more information about our partners! Text Box: Open Letter to the Warren County Communities: We have a goal to raise $100,000 and 100,000 pounds of food this year but we need the help of everyone in Warren County to meet this goal!   On behalf of County Government, Warren County United Way, the Lebanon Area Chamber Young Professionals  and all Local Governments across Warren County, we would like to invite you, your family, school, business, organization or church to participate in our 6th Annual Countywide “Yes We Can Food Drive Challenge that runs from November 1st to December 31st.   When we started this food drive in 2006, we were starting to experience an increase in the number of foreclosed homes; rising unemployment rates; increasing number of families eligible for Food Stamps and our food Pantries were facing a 25% increase in requests for help.  Little did we realize how critical this food drive would become in assisting our Food Pantries to meet a growing demand to put food on the table for so many families.   While today,6 years later, the economy is showing some signs of improvement, like  decreasing unemployment rates this year, you can see by the chart below that we still have a growing number of residents needing help in meeting the very basic human need......food!                                                                                  2006                   2010                  9/30/2011      Unemployment Rate                                  4.8%                  8.9%                      7.7%      Food Stamps (# of families)                    1,717 (8%↑)       3,963                   4,344  (9.5%↑)       Food Pantries (# of individuals)           15,282 (25%↑)   47,548                 51,596 (9%↑)    The good news is that more and more Warren County residents and businesses ARE stepping up to help every year and Lisa McNamara has been hired for 2 months to Coordinate this food drive and Henkle Schueler/Bunnell Hill Development has donated the use of a large warehouse storage facility where we hope to greatly improve our ability to distribute food barrels and collect & distribute the donated food to our 7 Food Pantries (one pantry for each School District). You can contact Lisa: wcfdcoordinator@gmail.com or call 513-384-6637   The Lebanon Area Young Professionals, lead by Bryan Hoying & Missy Stone will be coordinating the Food Drive in the Lebanon Business Community.   Once again, we invite every resident, School District, Community Club/Organization, and Local Government to join this effort.  We encourage groups to sign up YOUR Food Drive effort to become part of this Countywide Drive....help us achieve the highest amount of food and money ever collected so that our Food Pantry shelves are full throughout the entire coming winter months, not just for the Holidays.    We will report on this website the amount of food that each group collects and you can designate whether your donations go directly to your local pantry or if you want it added to the quantities that get divided up and shared with all 7 pantries.    If you want one of our “Yes We Can” Food Barrel placed in your business call 513-384-6637 and let Lisa McNamara know!  You can either come pick it up or she'll make arrangements to get one delivered.   DID YOU KNOW THAT FOR EVERY $1 DONATED TO OUR FOOD DRIVE WILL ALLOW OUR PANTRIES TO PURCHASE $10 WORTH OF FOOD THROUGH SHARED HARVEST?   OUR BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS would like to issue a "Financial Challenge" to everyone, including all Warren County Businesses....to match our $30,000 "Kick-off" contribution so in addition to the donated non-perishable food that will come in, our Food Pantries can take our collective $60,000 and purchase $600,000 worth of food for the coming year.  All cash donations can be paid on-line or directly to the Warren County United Way so that you can take advantage of their tax exemption status.  Just remember that if you write a check, make it payable to: United Way - Food Drive, 645 Oak Street, Lebanon, OH 45036   Times are tough financially for a lot of people but NO ONE in our county should ever go hungry.    We hope that you will accept this invitation to join our “Yes We Can Food Drive Challenge” and  help stock the food pantry shelves across this county so no one in Warren County goes hungry through the Thanksgiving & Christmas Holidays and long winter months ahead.   Sincerely,   Pat South  -  Dave Young  -  Tom Ariss YOUR WARREN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS “Yes We Can Food Drive Challenge” Text Box: Warren County’s 4th Annual Countywide Food Drive Kick-off - Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 10 a.m. During the Warren County Commissioner’s Meeting 406 Justice Drive, Lebanon Please join us! Text Box: Warren County’s 4th Annual Countywide Food Drive Kick-off - Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 10 a.m. During the Warren County Commissioner’s Meeting 406 Justice Drive, Lebanon Please join us!

Text Box: Click here to view a Map of Unemployment Rates by County   September 2011 Unemployment Rates: Ohio 8.5% Warren County 7.7% Hamilton County 8.7% Butler County 8.9% Clermont County 8.6% Montgomery County 9.6% Clinton County 12.4% Greene County 8.4%    Warren County has 4344 families (10,413 individuals) receiving Food Stamp Assistance (A 253% increase 2007) and as of Sept. 30th there have been 51,596 individuals served through our Food Pantries (a 9% increase over 2010).  WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE NEEDING HELP and as you can see above, most of them are not eligible for food stamps!              

Text Box:  THANK YOU....for helping your neighbors!   Food Donations to date in pounds:   208,198   Cash Donations          to date:             $48,059.10                Text Box: Warren County Food Drive © 2011 NEW WEB ADDRESS: www.warrencountyfooddrive.org    Pat South, Webmaster Warren County Board of Commissioners | 406 Justice Drive | Lebanon, OH 45036  Lisa McNamara, Food Drive Coordinator 513.384-6637    

OUR 2011 COUNTYWIDE FOOD DRIVE WILL RUN THROUGH DECEMBER 31st!  AS OF DECEMBER 21ST, WE HAVE BROKEN PAST YEARS' RECORDS WITH JUST A FEW DAYS FROM CHRISTMAS AND MORE DELIVERIES COMING IN!   THERE'S STILL TIME TO HELP MAKE SURE THAT THE WARREN COUNTY FOOD PANTRIES HAVE ENOUGH FOOD TO NOT ONLY GET THROUGH DECEMBER BUT JANUARY, FEDRUARY & MARCH OF THE NEW YEAR!   SO FAR YOU HAVE PROVIDED 106,385 POUNDS OF FOOD AND $47,559 IN CASH......  THANK YOU!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Text Box: LAYP needs Volunteers to help deliver baskets! Want to experience the real meaning of this 'giving' season?  The Lebanon Area Chamber of Commerce's Young Professionals in need of some Volunteers with a vehicle to help deliver 75 Christmas Baskets in the Lebanon School District THIS Friday evening (December 23rd) at 6 p.m. They currently have 22 Drivers with cars but could use an additional 10-13 Drivers (with vehicle) to help get all of the Family Food Baskets delivered faster. If you can help please call Bryan Hoying at 513-319-9747 or Missy Stone at 513-404-8954                                

 

Text Box: OUR GOAL:  100,000 # of Food & $100,000 in cash donations! We're already at a "record" year in giving!!!!!! 4 more days till Christmas!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

HELP MAKE YOU HOLIDAY & SOMEONE ELSE'S VERY SPECIAL

 

Wednesday the 21st we are asking Warren County (and surrounding area) singles to attend an event at 2996 Henkle Drive in Lebanon, Ohio.  It will be a volunteer-oriented evening where we will ask singles to come and sort food and package it for the pantries.
 
We are asking that anyone who wishes to attend bring a food or financial donation, although it is not required. CLICK BELOW FOR PRINTABLE FLYER! 

  Text Box: HELP MAKE YOU HOLIDAY & SOMEONE ELSE'S VERY SPECIAL   Wednesday the 21st we are asking Warren County (and surrounding area) singles to attend an event at 2996 Henkle Drive in Lebanon, Ohio.  It will be a volunteer-oriented evening where we will ask singles to come and sort food and package it for the pantries.   We are asking that anyone who wishes to attend bring a food or financial donation, although it is not required. CLICK BELOW FOR PRINTABLE FLYER!   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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