March – Feed the Hungry Update

The day of the event is finally set in stone; we will be making and serving breakfast for the Family Center at City Union Mission on Saturday the 28th of March. We expect to have around 100 client and we are all very excited.

The menu includes:

• Breakfast Burritos
• Krispy Kreme Donuts
• La Mars Donuts
• Bagels
• Sweet Rolls
• Cheese Rolls
• Bread
• Orange Juice

We will be getting donations from:

1. Krispy Kreme - 10 dozen fresh donuts
2. LaMars -10 dozen fresh donuts
3. Panera – Bagels, sweet rolls, chesse rolls, bread
4. Mendolia Sausage – 15lbs of breakfast sausage\
5. Silva Foods – 2 gallons of salsa, 150 10” tortillas, 5lbs of chips
6. Target - $50 in gift cards
7. B&M – Cups
8. Spaces – Info cards

We are VERY excited to get these donations and there might be one or two more before the date of the event.
During the event as each client is getting their breakfast we will also be handing out an informational card, which will have the same information that the blankets did.

The important dates for the Feed the Hungry Project are as follows:

Thursday 3/19/09 – Tentative deadline to volunteer
Wednesday 3/25/09 – Volunteer meeting
Saturday 3/28/09 – Day of the event

On the 28th of March our day will begin at 6:30AM when we will meet in the kitchen of the Family Center located at: 13th and Wabash. From there we will separate into people who want to set –up and those who want to cook. Breakfast will be served at 8AM and they will have 30min. to eat. We should be able to be done by around 9:30AM.

We need a total of 22 volunteers to cook, serve, set-up and clean-up. So far we have a few volunteers (mainly from Spaces) so if you are interested on helping that day please contact me (Laura Torres) at ltorres@burnsmcd.com) or Dave Sharpe at dsharpe@burnsmcd.com by March 19th. In the e-mail please put Feed the Hungry as a subject and let us know if you can be there for the whole three hours or if you would like to be a back-up. We will be meeting the 25th of March for a meeting to go over details of the day of. The meeting will be at noon and hosted by Spaces Inc.

We hope to see a lot of you there!
Laura, Dave and the Feed the Hungry Team.

Blanket Distribution

The team gathered outside Hope Faith Ministries downtown

Organizing all 80 blankets by size!

Melissa McGee (Burns & McDonnell) handing out a blanket

Caitlin Boies and two new blanket owners!

Sewing Day Photos

Volunteers from two Olathe junior high schools helped our team complete almost 80 blankets!

It took several Saturdays...

...and lots of hard work!



Friends from Knoll turned out to help.

Amy Pierce (Spaces) and Melissa McGee (Burns & McDonnell)

Warming the Homeless Event

On a Saturday morning in February the Burns & McDonnell/Spaces team gathered downtown at Hope Faith Ministries, their mission underscored by the heavy snowstorm that had blanketed the ground and continued to fall. The team was here to distribute 80 handmade blankets, lovingly sewn by area school children and church groups from donated commercial fabrics. Bearing in mind the needs of those displaced by misfortune and fate, these blankets folded compactly into pillows that could be easily transported, and which bore a list of area homeless services and bus routes. Over a thousand needy Kansas Citians shuffled through the shelter that morning, looking for a hot meal, some warm clothes and a break from the cold. It is our hope that they found much more: a unique and beautiful item for them to own and cherish, stitched with the care of a community that surrounds and supports them.