Mary Ruhl chooses carefully how to spend her time
Mary Ruhl lives her life like a leaf and chooses carefully how to spend her time.

For the past 10 years, she has volunteered her design skills to OFB, creating 10 annual reports and Thanksgiving cards to help OFB raise funds and -- designing a fabulous learning garden adjacent to OFB's new warehouse.
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Upcoming OFB events

Spenser Goes To Portland

Look for OFB in Spenser Goes to Portland, a new children's book about America's favorite traveling dog.
To purhase a copy, contact booksales@spensernation.com.
A portion of the book's royalties will be donated to Oregon Food Bank.

Blues fan?
Don't miss the 22nd annual Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival, Thursday, July 2, to Sunday, July 5, 2009. It's the largest blues festival west of the Mississippi, and the second-largest blues festival in the nation.

You can do it! Run your own event
Want to organize your own event? Hundreds of community members organized drives to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds of food and thousands of dollars to fight hunger. Oregon Food Bank can help you organize your event.

• Find out most-wanted foods and where to drop off food donations.
• Complete a Food and Fund Drive Barrel Request Form to request a barrel for collecting food.
• Or download a complete Food and Fund Drive Kit.

Sponsor an event
Corporations, schools and organizations sponsor exciting events throughout the year to help fight hunger. For example, Regal Cinemas sponsors the Cans Film Festival. Jiffy Lube and U.S. Bank sponsor the Fill the Bag Food Campaign. And the National Association of Letter Carriers Union sponsors the state's largest one-day food drive. Read about other fun sponsorship opportunities.

• To help sponsor the Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival, presented by First Tech Credit Union, contact Clay Fuller, cfpromo@aracnet.com or 503-297-2700.
• To sponsor other events, contact Megan Lewis at mlewis@oregonfoodbank.org or 503-282-0555, Ext. 221.