We had a very successful event yesterday at Marilee and Bruce's house, in Pasadena, thanks to all the wonderful people that made it possible. The idea was to collect food to be delivered to a local food bank, the Friends In Deed Pantry. Approximately 70 were present at the actual event and others just dropped off food. People brought enough food to fill a whole room of the house and then after we enjoyed some wine and good company, they loaded it into three SUV’s to be delivered to the food pantry. What a wonderful sight. ! Thanks to all who participated in this very satisfying and enjoyable event. Hope to see you all soon at future events. Marilee
On December 14, along with my husband Bruce, I hosted a Change is Coming House Meeting at our home in Pasadena. 62 people attended and the house was filled with positive energy. As the hosts were requested to do, the event had a dual agenda the most immediate being to plan a community service event prior to January 20 when OUR new President takes office. The second purpose was to give people the opportunity to come together and discuss the issues that were most important to them. The break out groups formed for purposes of discussion included economy, education and healthcare. Many good ideas were generated. I am encouraging everyone who attended the meeting to sign up at change.gov which is the official site of the Obama Biden transition team. You ideas and input are welcome there. You just need to sign in with an email address. With respect to planning a community service event, one of my guests just finished contacting various groups and made a list of organizations that need our help. In the next few days, I will be posting a group event on my barackobama.com to which people will bring food to be delivered to one of these local organizations on MLK day. Of course I will send everyone of you an email as well. Happy New Year.! Marilee
Yesterday my husband Bruce Wright and I had a "Fiesta for Change" fundraiser. Thank you to all of you who joined the festivities and to all of you who contributed but could not attend. For many years people, including my Latino friends, have been telling me what great tamales I make. I decided to call on my friends to see if they really liked my tamales well enough to donate money to Barack in order to eat an unlimited supply. A lot of them decided they did and we had a great time with tamales and margaritas and raised a few thousand doing it. One of our friends wrote a song for the occasion, which incorporated the famous Stevie Wonder chant and Anthony Portantino was nice enough to come by and speak some words of encouragement to the gathering. We even made some new friends, including a possible fishing buddy for Bruce. If you have not already done so, go to mybarackobama.com and set up your own page so that you can connect with supporters near you, organize events, raise funds and volunteer to help. There's so much to be done and so much energy out there to plug into.
