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You are here: Home / Food & Recipes / Food / Bigfooting Cole For a Good Cause: The Durham Foodraiser!

Bigfooting Cole For a Good Cause: The Durham Foodraiser!

by Adam L Silverman|  December 5, 202012:51 am| 17 Comments

This post is in: Food, Open Threads, Poverty

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Bigfoot Is Real

Normally I wouldn’t be posting this late, but I was scrolling through various Twitter feeds while commenting in my earlier post and came across T. Greg Doucette’s Foodraiser. At Levenson’s Twitter feed. And since Levenson is right in saying:

Thread.

Feeding kids is always a mitzvah. https://t.co/vI97mDPEid

— Thomas Levenson, Zṓiarchos (@TomLevenson) December 5, 2020

(For the Hebrew impaired a mitzvah is a good deed)

I decided that this is something everyone here, who is awake, reading, commenting, lurker, should know about.

Anyhow, there’s a really long thread explaining the Durham Foodraiser, but the bottom line up front is that Doucette, a lawyer from Durham, NC, has been raising money every year for the past four years to make sure that children in the public schools in the poorest areas of Durham who would ordinarily be suffering from food scarcity while school is out for the winter holidays have enough to eat. He’s got a bunch of matching donors, so a $1 donation winds up being something like a $26 donation or something, I got kind of lost because he keeps tweeting that he’s added matching donors through the thread. Regardless, any donation you make is going to get matched. And he’s got a 501c3 in place this year, so your donation is tax deductible too! The Foodraiser will remain active until 11:59 PM PST. So there’s still time to donate if you’ve got a couple of extra bucks that could do some good as we head into the holidays. Here’s Doucette’s thread.

**********
6TH (😱😱) ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
FRIDAY, 12/04/2020
ALL-DAY THREAD
********** pic.twitter.com/YtPNYRaxnp

— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) December 4, 2020

And here’s where you go to donate:

HOW TO DONATE TO
THE 6TH(!) ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER

1️⃣ Donate online: https://t.co/zMvFOo4VEp

2️⃣ CashApp: $tgdlaw

3️⃣ Venmo: @greg_doucette

4️⃣ PayPal: https://t.co/WU8c4YgGxU

And of course please retweet, tell a friend, etc etc etc 😆

— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) December 4, 2020

Do read the whole thread if you have the time as he’s a very good storyteller.

You all know what to do!

Open thread!

 

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17Comments

  1. 1.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 5, 2020 at 12:55 am

    I’m going to watch the second half of the Connaght V Benetton Pro14 rugby match. You all know what to do!

  2. 2.

    divF

    December 5, 2020 at 12:59 am

    Donated.

  3. 3.

    JAFD

    December 5, 2020 at 1:08 am

    Good morning, jackals !

    Had cataract surgery on left eye this past Thursday.  Think it went well, as did operation on right

    Saw doc Friday morn. He seems happy with his handiwork, said the anesthetic might leave me feeling woozy a couple of days.

    Am trying to set screen brightness to comfortable level, former settings now blindingly bright.

    Sorry if not communicating much. More when eyes adjust.

    Anyway, Doc sez I’m now Officially A Cyborg,

    and (when ye %&^&^@#@#*& pandemic is over) I can host

    my Party Of The First Part.

    So I put in a coupla bucks,

    a thank you gift to the Gods and Patron Saints of Medicine and Surgery.

  4. 4.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 5, 2020 at 1:10 am

    @JAFD: Excellent news!

  5. 5.

    Steeplejack

    December 5, 2020 at 1:20 am

    Threw in a few bucks. Sounds like a worthy project.

  6. 6.

    CaseyL

    December 5, 2020 at 2:02 am

    Excellent cause! I kicked in a few bucks.

    … and they just made their goal!!

  7. 7.

    Debbie(Aussie)

    December 5, 2020 at 2:16 am

    Not sure if Amit is here, but in case he is. Amit, am so terribly sorry about Miss Bianca. Extra🤗s thoughts and love from downunder.

  8. 8.

    Amir Khalid

    December 5, 2020 at 2:39 am

    @Debbie(Aussie):

    A cat’s love is a blessing. One day this little black kitten decided to follow me home, and she blessed me with her love for 16 years. I’m feeling teary today, no surprises there, and rather lost. I am grateful for your kind thoughts.

  9. 9.

    Debbie(Aussie)

    December 5, 2020 at 2:52 am

    @Amir Khalid: 
    Sorry Amir, auto correct strikes again. (And forgetting to read before pressing post)

  10. 10.

    Aleta

    December 5, 2020 at 3:23 am

    @Amir Khalid:  When certain of my cats got old (and now with this dog) I’ve  told myself that two things they really want are to have their person around a lot, and if possible to not have to leave home.  Seems like you gave that to her.

  11. 11.

    opiejeanne

    December 5, 2020 at 4:07 am

    @Amir Khalid: Oh, I am so sorry, Amir.

  12. 12.

    Mary G

    December 5, 2020 at 4:18 am

    @Amir Khalid: It’s such an honor to be chosen. I went into the Pasadena Humane Society “just to look around” and this cat reached out a paw as I was going by and tapped me imperiously on the shoulder. We had almost 21 years together. What a hole they leave in your life when they go.

  13. 13.

    WereBear

    December 5, 2020 at 4:50 am

    @Amir Khalid: Sixteen years is a big chunk of our lives, and the whole of theirs. I’m so glad you met so early in her life, and gave her such a long one.

    If it helps, I have a post on dealing with mourning cats, After a loss, how long before we get a new cat? that people have told me was very helpful.

    The answer is that doesn’t matter. Because we never stop missing the gone cat. And that doesn’t stop us from loving a new one.

  14. 14.

    ThresherK

    December 5, 2020 at 7:52 am

    @Amir Khalid: Condolences from our home to yours.

  15. 15.

    ThresherK

    December 5, 2020 at 7:57 am

    Donated. (Don’t let the “1 day” thing fool you, PayPal will still take it.)

     

    Blogmaster: As one of the few Nordiques-to-Avalanche fan converts, I appreciate your Bigfoot logo here. (But, and I get to say this, it’s a very strange secondary logo.)

  16. 16.

    hedgehog mobile

    December 5, 2020 at 8:41 am

    @Amir Khalid: Oh Amir.  I am so sorry.

  17. 17.

    CaseyL

    December 5, 2020 at 11:26 am

    @Amir Khalid: I am so sorry for your loss.  May the knowledge that you gave her a a wonderful life be of some comfort.

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