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Thank you to all of the loving people that donated toys, books, gift cards, food, personal care items, and new clothing to make Christmas merry for seniors, children and their families. We are thankful for the many wonderful people that gave financial donations which provided nutritious groceries for families and seniors to enjoy delicious meals. You made the holidays a beautiful experience for those in need.

The incredible students at the Lake Park High School campuses conducted a food drive for seniors and children enrolled in HSP's programs. Dan Colucci, a teacher and baseball coach at Lake Park spearheaded the drive along with other staff. Thank you to all the students and teachers that gave food and essential items to help the elderly and children suffering from hunger in our communities.

We received a wonderful donation of school supplies to help kiddos start the new school year off right. HSP's Executive Director gave a tour of the warehouse, toy room and food pantry to this amazing group of people to talk about HSP's programs. It was a great visit and an opportunity to share about the important difference they are making in the lives of children and their families.

A terrific time was had by people from all over the world at Veggie Fest. We even had a visit from a dove in our booth, who was affectionately named Karole after our Co-Founder who passed away eleven years ago. Science of Spirituality is the host sponsor of Veggie Fest which is one of the largest vegetarian food and wellness festivals in North America. Our amazing friends at the Science of Spirituality have been providing food to seniors and families, birthdays to children and toys to kiddos at Christmas for the last 12 years. To learn more about Science of Spirituality in Lisle visit sos.org.

For the last 9 years the Cruisin' Tigers have been supporting children in the Children's Project through their Indian Uprising All Pontiac weekend event. The club feels strongly about donating to children's charities and has done so for over 30 years. Many people came out to the event to showcase their cars along with the spectators. A great time was had by all and children receive birthday boxes and food for their families through the clubs incredible support. To learn more about the club go to cruisintigers.com.

Our wonderful friends stopped by to drop off a huge donation of school supplies. The employees at UPS are very generous and donated supplies to children in need. The UPS Community Connections group works very hard to raise the money through bake sales and other fun events which the employees support. Thanks to them children ages pre-school to high school are starting school prepared for the new year.

Our hearts go out with gratitude for the many wonderful people that have dropped off and shipped school supplies for children in need. You are the reason children can return to school with the supplies they need to start the year off right. With 446 backpacks distributed as of 7/26, we will continue to distribute through the month of August and in the children's birthday boxes.

A HUGE thank you to our incredible volunteers that have been distributing backpacks filled with supplies to families for their children. Through your hard work 446 children have received school supplies over the last 9 days of distribution. And for showing up every week to prepare produce and grocery packages to serve seniors, children and their families that are suffering from hunger in our community.

On our July Senior Delivery day, Bernie, our weekly superstar volunteer had a special guest to ride along with him on the delivery to senior's homes. Sandy Costa, Mrs. Illinois International selected HSP as one of the charities she wanted to volunteer and spend time at. Sandy has been very active for years in the community at local charities and her church. Sandy will also be helping distribute groceries and school supplies to children in the Children's Project.

We were so happy to have the amazing support of employees from Jabil at HSP to volunteer. They put together school supply packages for younger children enrolled in the Children's Project. This was a very important task as distribution to families begins on July 16th through August 30th at HSP's center.

Thank you from the HSP staff for eating at Lou's during our Dine and Donate event making it possible for HSP to receive 20% of sales through your orders to provide nutritious meals to children and seniors in HSP's programs. It was awesome to receive an email from Vicki telling us, "I hope this did well. We enjoyed our pizza. Thanks for the night off cooking!"

The wonderful women from the Lombard Service League visited HSP for a check presentation and tour. This organization has supported children and seniors in HSP's programs for 20 years. Many of the members volunteer at Christmas putting together toy packages for the children. If you are interested in learning more about this club visit lombardserviceleague.org.