Project MANA - A Hunger Relief Agency

North Lake Tahoe Bonanza:  The North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation wants to thank the Tahoe community for its wonderful support in carrying out the 2007 Holiday Food and Clothing Project. With help from numerous segments of the community, the Holiday Food and Clothing Project held on Dec. 22 was a great success and provided more food to more families than ever before. The Holiday Food and Clothing Project supplied food and winter clothing to 226 North Shore families thus providing food and winter clothing to more than 1100 people. The event supplied 23,000 pounds of food and an enormous amount of winter clothing to North Shore families in need.

There are many people, businesses and organizations we want to acknowledge. First, we want to thank Ron Stanger and Village Market for their generosity. We also would like to recognize Dave Rouse and his staff at Safeway Kings Beach for their tremendous help. We want to thank the Safeway Corporation for its extremely generous grant. We also thank Darius Vigil and Raley's for their helpfulness. We would like to thank the Truckee Tahoe Community Foundation for their financial support. We also want to thank Jim Stohlgren and Stohlgren Brothers for their continued support and donations.

Thank you to the many generous community members who donated money, food and winter clothing to the project. We want to recognize the NTPUD and the North Tahoe Conference Center for extending themselves and donating the space in which to conduct the event. We greatly appreciate the help of George LeBard and his staff at Project MANA for their ongoing support, assistance and generous donations. We also want to thank Dan Clift and the Food Bank of Northern Nevada, Sara Coolidge and the Family Resource Center for their help. We also want to thank the North Lake Tahoe Bonanza and the Sierra Sun for publicizing this event. We are grateful to Pastor Chip Larson and the Christ the King congregation for their kind donation of winter clothing.

We want to thank the dozens of community volunteers who worked extremely hard on the food organization and distribution days. We especially thank Cindy McClelland and her Incline High School volunteers (Citlali Barajas, Jennifer Martinez, Maggie Castillo, Rosa Valdovinos, Alma Aguilar, Sean McClellan, Karan Duran, Edgar Baez and Wendy Topio ) for their tireless hours of work.

The entire Tahoe Community was outstanding in supporting the 2007 Holiday Food and Clothing Project, and we are deeply grateful.