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Dec 2016 17

The Giving Tree at Woods Elementary

2016 Articles, Education, Helping Hands, Sarah Peterson-Camacho

by Sarah Peterson

The holiday spirit is alive and well at Clovis’s Woods Elementary School, which has been sponsoring a Giving Tree charity drive every December for over a decade. Woods parent Heather Devany gave Kings River Life the scoop on what the program is all about, and the Giving Tree’s impact on Woods Elementary and its surrounding community.

Fighting Hunger in California’s Breadbasket

2010 Articles, Community, Diana Bulls, Helping Hands, Ministry Musings, Reedley News

by Diana Bulls

Although it may seem hard to believe, a hunger crisis has been unfolding right here in Fresno County—the breadbasket of California, or as we who live in Reedley like to say, “The World’s Fruit Basket.” According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Quick Facts about Fresno County, 22.1% of the population was under the poverty level in 2008 compared to 13.3% in all of California.