January 2004

Note: Adopt-A-Family is the previous name of Local Foods Connection

10,000 Hours Show
In late April of 2004, thousands of volunteers will join together in Iowa City for a night of music and celebration culminating a yearlong commitment to volunteerism: The 10,000 Hours Show. It is the first event of its kind: a concert for which no tickets will be sold. Instead, every member of the audience "buys" a ticket by contributing their time and talent to a participating Johnson County organization. Collectively, the audience of the show will represent Tens of Thousands of Hours of volunteer service!

Although any volunteer receives credit towards entrance to the show, the 10,000 Hours group is focused on involving University of Iowa students in community organizations. Adopt-A-Family has met some of the show's talented, energetic and humble organizers, and already has benefited from 6 hours of volunteer work from UI students! The students volunteered on one of our CSA farms late this fall, cleaning up the fields for the winter. Not only are we glad to give these young people the experience of working on a sustainable, small family farm, AAF will receive credit toward the purchase of a CSA share this spring for their work! We hope to get more volunteers out to farms in late winter/early spring, weather permitting.

In addition, AAF's other student volunteers, recruited through the 2003 UI Community Service Fair or the AAF web site, can use their volunteer hours toward the show entrance. If you would like to volunteer for Adopt-A-Family through this program, contact L Dowd at (319) 338-2010. To learn more, visit the show's website at: http://www.tenthousandhours.org/

WHO IS ADOPT-A-FAMILY? YOU ARE!!
Really. We wouldn't have succeeded in 2003 without these folks.

Thanks to the following businesses for cash donations:

COLIN ANDRE, GEICO DIRECT, IOWA STATE BANK, LL PELLING, LENSING FUNERAL HOME, MCDONALD OPTICAL, NAUGHTON INSURANCE AGENCY, OTOLOGIC MEDICAL SERVICES, SCHEELS ALL SPORTS, THAI FLAVORS AND YOUNKERS.

Thanks to the following businesses and organizations for donations of space, goods and services:

10,000 HOURS CONCERT CREW (recruits UI students to volunteer for local non-profit agencies); CONSULTATION FOR RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES (hosted AAF speaker); DEVOTAY (displays brochures); EMPOWER COMPUTING, THE JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY NETWORK, AND ABC SOLUTIONS (web site development and hosting); FAITH UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST (pick up location for turkey distribution); FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH SARA HART GUILD (hosted AAF speaker); FOSTER MAYTAG (new chest freezer and electric kitchen range); HASSMAN APPLIANCE (service call on a used chest freezer); IOWA CITY GAZETTE & COMMUNITY NEWS ADVERTISER (ran an article on AAF, lists AAF in community directories); JOHNSON COUNTY CRISIS CENTER (helped with vegetable share distribution to families); JOHNSON COUNTY FARM BUREAU (provided AAF a booth at AgFest); NORTH DODGE ATHLETIC CLUB (allowed AAF to fundraise on-site); RED AVOCADO (advice on teaching food prep, menu planning and general cooking); UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF LAW NON PROFIT CENTER (risk management advice and problem solving); UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SERVICE FAIR COMMITTEE (recruits students to volunteer at community agencies); THE VOLUNTEER ACTION NETWORK (teaches non-profits how to manage volunteers); WHITE DOG AUTO (displays newsletters)

Thanks to the following individuals and families for cash donations:

ANTOINE BECHARA, PEG BOUSKA, MRS. MARGARET BURKHART, MARY CASULA, ANDREA & KENNETH CLINKENBEARD, DAVID CURRY & DONNA FRIEDMAN, CAROL HUNT & RALPH ADOLPHS, DINA JANZEN & JIM ROSSEN, HEATH & VIRGINIA KEHOE, SUE LANGBEHN, SONDRA & ROBERT LEWIS, JAMES LUTH, JANET MAURER, KATHY MOON, JANE & RANDY MOORE, KENNETH & CHRISTINE MULLEN, POLLY & ARMOND PAGLIAI, RANDY & MARGARITA PARKS, ANN RHOMBERG & SUSAN JOHNSON, VALERIA & STEVEN SCHNOR, MICHAEL & JENNIFER SCHWARZ, DIANE SUNSHINE, RITA & ROBERT TOMANEK

Thanks to the following individuals and families for donations of time, knowledge, goods and services:

BILL ASENJO; DANYA BALLANTYNE, JENNIFER BRITTON & LORI ENLOE, AMELIA CHALLENDER, HEATHER CLAUSSEN, DAVID COLLINS, DANIEL COOK, SUSAN DEMAS, CAROL HUNT, ABBY LOHMAN, JAMES LUTH II, TOM MCELDERRY, NICOLE POWELL, ANN RHOMBERG, KATIE RODER, ROGER AT THE CRISIS CENTER, PATTI SANTANGELO, EMILY SILLIMAN, CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL SMITH, ROBERT & RITA TOMANEK, HOLLY WARTH, THAIS WINKLEBLACK

We might have forgot to list your name, but we haven't forgotten you! Let us know about any omission and we will list your in our next newsletter, when we thank our farmers, the organizations who recruit families for adoption, and others.