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  1. WBZ-TV report on Cor Unum from last night's news: http://tinyurl.com/ykh2hq9
  2. Thanksgiving dinner at Cor Unum tomorrow beginning at 4:30 pm.
  3. Thanksgiving dinner ingredients beginning to pile into Cor Unum.
  4. Question for hungry kids all over USA this week: Where will they get food between this Wednsday's public school meals and next Monday am?
  5. If you volunteer somewhere this week for Thanksgiving, it's double cool if you make plans to do the same thing in July.
  6. PBS' new Scenes from a Parish website is up: http://tinyurl.com/yjj55ut
  7. Thanks to Teresita A-B for having come from Oslo to volunteer at Cor Unum. We hereby award you the Nobel Prize . . .
  8. Feeding America (network of >200 food banks in USA) reports 30% increase in # of people seeking assistance this year.
  9. From the USDA hunger report, the 14.6% of Americans who were hungry last year = 17 million households.
  10. USDA: 14.6% of Americans were hungry last year - up from 11.1% previous year - highest number since USDA hunger surveys began.
  11. The "extremist" label seems awfully common. Oxymoronic?
  12. Regina O. and her friends celebrated her 12th birthday by serving dinner at Cor Unum last night.
  13. In today's driving rain, South Lawrence Cub Scouts did a door-to-door collection of canned goods for the food pantry @ Cor Unum.
  14. "Scenes from a Parish" national broadcast on PBS Tuesday evening, 29 December. Mark your calendar!
  15. Another tough assessment for the MA economy and unemployment: http://tinyurl.com/yjgkba7
  16. Thanks to Gayle C. for sponsoring Labels ad in Burlington, MA newspaper.
  17. Do you know any seniors who might be touched by hunger in their lives . . . and would not be inclined to tell anyone about their situations?
  18. The widow at Zarephath's never-running-out flour and oil are kind of like the Cor Unum kitchen.
  19. Thanks to Jim O'C for terrific volunteer paint work at Cor Unum!
  20. We get a kick out of this style piece about Labels' pal Carol Sawyer Parks: http://tinyurl.com/yz94z6s