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iN Your CommuNitY

Summer Swelter Can’t Stop of St. Lucie County volunteers who spent days in a
Service warehouse assembling school supplies for children
in foster care, and local business owner Wendy
Zuniga. Her family donated enough backpacks and
High temperatures, pencils, paper and pocket folders to send 50 Martin
brutal humidity and the County students back to school fully supplied.
ongoing COVID-19 And longtime CCKids partner Sunshine Health
pandemic are no match for didn’t miss its opportunity to help, shipping
the passion and commitment an order of supplies to eager volunteers ready
of local volunteers. These to assemble and distribute to children in need.
volunteers are spending “We were a little worried about the impact of
their summer collecting COVID-19 on our back-to-school collections this
school supplies, filling year,” said Christina Kaiser, CCKids community
back packs and getting relations director. “But our partners in the
duffel bags, care packages, community found a way to get it done. They didn’t
masks and other valuable forget us.”
resources to children and families served by Communities In fact, some new partners and volunteers
Connected for Kids (CCKids). They include United Way have come on board since the pandemic began
last spring – groups like the Culture Committee of the
Keller Williams Realty Group in St. Lucie West, which
collected and donated duffel bags and backpacks for
children who have to move from one home to another.
“Every child deserves to know and feel love and know
that someone cares about them,” said Hanoy Carinha, of
Keller Williams Realty. “That’s why we hosted a duffel
bag/backpack drive.”
The Culture Committee is a group of like-minded
individuals with one goal in mind: Give where you live,
said Carinha, adding that she hopes the travel bags will
give some comfort to children during one of the most
traumatic times of their lives.
Still other groups are pooling volunteers to make
sure that children and families – as well as the case
managers who work with them – have enough masks to
safely weather the pandemic. The Ocean Village Sewing
Circle has sewn more than 1,000 masks since they began
the project last spring, donating nearly 400 of them to
CCKids. “We’ve given them out to foster families, to case
managers and our clients,” Kaiser said. “And the group’s
most recent donation will allow us to add masks to the
backpacks of school supplies we’ve received.”
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Palm Beach North Chamber

Looking For Poster Artist For

36th Edition Of ArtiGras

Featured Artist Will Be Highlighted
Throughout ArtiGras
The Palm Beach North Chamber of Commerce is
looking for their next poster artist for their 36th edition
ArtiGras Fine Arts Festival, the premier fine arts festival
of the Palm Beaches. The theme for the 2020 ArtiGras is
“The Love of Art” since the festival will fall on Valentine’s
Day weekend.
The commemorative poster can be made of the following
mediums: painting, photography, mixed media, digital
art, drawing and printmaking. Artists are encouraged to
integrate the theme of “The Love of Art” or the Palm Beach
North region into their artwork.
Some of the perks of being selected as the ArtiGras
poster artist include a free booth during the 2020 festival,

ArtiGras commemorative poster in 2020 by artist Ellen Negley

Art Happenings on page 6