With record unemployment of nearly 10%, even affluent Orange County has seen a rise in homelessness during the past year. The good news, as reported by the Orange County Register, is that the unemployment rate dropped to 9.4% in September from 9.8% in August. As Thanksgiving and the holiday season approaches, organizations such as Orange County Rescue Mission and Second Harvest Food Bank that provide food and meals for the homeless will be stepping up their pleas for donations and to increase awareness of the record number of disenfranchised persons who have no place to call home for the first time in their lives.
We can all do our part to help these families by giving canned goods or a small donation when you receive that envelope in the mail. Then there are those who desire to go a step further and just seem to have generosity and caring at the core of their being. I’m privileged to know one such person: Marcie Taylor, who I recently met when I attended a Blog Crush event to meet some other Orange County blogging mammas.
Marcie Taylor Photography, along with Melting Pot Moms of North/Central O.C. organized a “Fall Picnic Extravaganza” at Lake Park in Huntington Beach to benefit Orange County Rescue Mission. Besides food and drinks, there were raffle prizes, crafts, photo opportunities. People were asked to bring can good or make a minimum donation of $5/family.
Shera, a therapy dog who volunteers at CHOC and many other hospitals in O.C., Jamie from The Little Gym, and Anne Bauerlein, a certified master hypnotist. Children were dressed in costumes and enjoyed a parachute activity led by Jamie of The Little Gym. It was just another beautiful day in Huntington Beach and my dog, Tank, and I enjoyed getting out and making some new acquaintances.
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