East Bay Food Bank Is A Critical Project For The Holidays

December 6, 2007 by Jim Walberg · Leave a Comment

The East Bay Real Estate community leads the Holiday collection of food and funds.
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None of you will ever meet Peg Deslaurie. She died five year ago of cancer. However, her legacy within the East Bay Real Estate community has never stopped. She was a Realtor in my Danville office for many years and was the champion of the East Bay’s Food Bank projects. She introduced this project to our real estate community and engaged all of the Brokerages and marketing associations to participate and to invite their client base to participate, too. Not only was this a Holiday project, but it was a Summer project, too, for the Food Bank’s Summer lunch program for kids who would not be able to have lunch because they were not in school.
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In addition, the Realtors Marketing Association in the Tri-Valley created a Peg Deslaurie Community Service Award that is given each year to the Realtor who stands out in their commitment to community service. Before Peg passed away, she asked if I would promise to continue this project within our real estate community. I have kept my promise.

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Because of Peg’s example and leadership the Food Bank project within the East Bay Real Estate community has not only continued, but it has expanded. Because of the work of Realtors and their client bases, there was over 5,000 pounds of food collected and over $2,500.00 of cash donations to the Food Bank! This program supplies over 70,000 meals a month for those less fortunate than us, and would not have any meals without this important project.
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There is still time to help! You can drop off non-perishable food and/or checks made out to the Food Bank to our office all the way up to December 21st – 500 La Gonda Way, #102, Danville, California, 94526. Or, you can mail checks to our office to the attention of “Jim Walberg”. The Food Bank is able to buy $6 of food for every $1 that is donated because of their agreements with grocery companies. Thank you in advance for your participation in this very important project!