NOTE: The following was submitted by Nana and Buppa and uploaded by the Cutlers, as N & B are still enjoying time at "Nana's House In The Country". It's great that we can find "causes off campus"!!!
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Today is Sunday, July 3rd, and we are in Conway, NH. We went to Mass at Our Lady of the Mountains where they had a second collection to support the fuel/heat program for the church. We were happy to contribute as we have been "unofficial" members of this spiritual community for decades while enjoying many years of family time in Conway. Later, we learned that there was a book drive at the local supermarket, Hannaford's, where they keep an ongoing book bin where visitors can both drop off their used books and peruse the selection to find "new" reads. If you chose to take a book from the bin, you are asked to leave a $1.00 donation in the collection bottle, which actually had a good amount of cash in it!. It's nice that the honor system still works!! The store gives the proceeds to a different charity each month. This month, the chosen charity is the D.A.R.E. program, which, as Sophia has recently learned, stands for Drug and Alcohol Resistance Education. Sophia told us that a police officer from Sherborn comes to the fifth grade at her school each year to teach the children about the importance of not using drugs or alcohol. She said she really liked the officer and his program. D.A.R.E. certainly seems a cause to be worthy of searching through our country house to find books, both for adults and children, that we could donate!
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