Angel Food Ministries

With a heart to help others and a generous spirit, Joe and Linda Wingo founded Angel Food Ministries in 1994 to provide food for friends and neighbors who were struggling financially. Today, they are still doing the same thing. The Angel Food program now is helping provide food relief to more than 500,000 families each month.

There are 14 distribution sites within a 30 mile radius of New Smyrna Beach. The closest being Edgewater, Port Orange and Deland. Click here for all 14 locations.

Angel Food is not a Food Bank, they purchase high quality food at discount prices and sell it less expensively than grocery stores. In general you can get around $65.00 worth of food for $30.00. Each month therre is a different variety of food as well as specialty boxes. You can read more about how it works here.

This service was designed for people who may be having a hard time, laid off or temporarily in a tough economic situation. I know there are plenty of people like that in our area. Please check out their website and take advantage of the generosity of others.

Manic Monday

Do you Freecycle? If you don't you should look into it. Easy and Free way to get rid of your "stuff", the idea is not to get a bunch of free stuff but to keep things out of the landfills by sharing with others. We have a great group here in New Smyrna Beach. I think we have over 1,000 members in the area. There are over 6.5 million members worldwide. Check it out.

Took my daughter and our dogs to Smyrna Dunes Park today. It was a beautiful day and the park is very nice. If you have a dog that likes to play in the water it is especially nice.

Had my annual mammogram today at Port Orange Imaging Center on Dunlawton. This is my second year going there and it is a very pleasant experience. You don't wait, they are all very nice and it is pretty painless. Well, as painless as having a Ford F250 driven over your boob is.(just kidding, really, I am kidding)

Not sure if I have mentioned this but I love my son's teachers at Warner Christian Academy. He was dreading middle school and he loves Warner. Speaking of schools, I heard a rumor that Coronado Elementary was going to be closed. The announcement was supposed to be made after FCAT, never heard it so I guess it is just a rumor. Not a good one either I might add. I heard it from a teacher at another school, so we shall see.

In closing, a very good friend of mines husband died after a long illness this past week. They have two son's who are heartbroken. Please consider donating your organs upon your death. Did you know that each day an average of 63 people receive donated organs and another 16 people die on the waiting list?

You can find out more about Organ Donation in Florida here. You can find out about National Organ Donation here.

Crossroads Spring Fest

The Crossroads Christian Church Springfest is this Saturday, April 4th from 10am-1pm.

Z88.3FM and Chik-fil-a in Port Orange are sponsoring this event. The event will be held at the Ministry Center located at 3838 State Road 44 in New Smyrna Beach.

Z88.3FM will broadcast live, the "His Hands" Puppet Team will perform, the New Smyrna Beach Fire Department will be on hand, there will be bouncie slides, face painting, a petting zoo and an Easter Egg Hunt. Lunch can be purchased from Chik-fil-a and you will even get the a chance to meet the Chik-fil-a Cow.

Details can be found here. It will be a good, positive, fun family event!

Sunday Stumble

What a nice weekend at the beach, yes a rainy Sunday is nice when all you ever see is sun!

This weeks picks are all websites or blogs I have found on Twitter.

Stay in the Pink - Breast Cancer Survivor has a GREAT website and Blog.

Fit Business Woman great tips for getting off the couch or chair etc. Love the blog too.

Such a Southern Girl - this is just good. I love reading it.

Today's Moms - this is written by the Today Show's Producers, has some good stuff.

Gift For No Reason - this store is located on the North Causeway - support your local business.

$5.00 Dinners - who doesn't love a dinner for 5.00??

Mommy Wizdom - lots of good resources here.

Enjoy!

Let's Talk About Respect

I wandered into 7-11 at 27th Ave on South Beach tonight to get batteries for my son's X-BOX controllers...I have 3 boys staying overnight.....gotta have X-Box.....but I digress. It was kind of busy in there. The son of one of my friends works in there, he goes to college, he is a good kid.

I stood back tonight and observed while customer after customer were just plain RUDE to both him and the other man working. What is up with that? Why would you go into any public establishment and abuse the people working there? Would you do that in YOUR hometown? If your mother, sister, wife, brother or friend was working at 7-11 would you be happy if someone was mean or disrespectful to them?

One man at the counter asked the clerk who was counting his change what was taking so long "do you need an abacus?" ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

I don't care who you are or what kind of hurry you are in, there is no excuse for being nasty, rude and mean to someone who is waiting on you. Turns out I left my ATM card in the store, the clerk I mentioned before, the one who needs an abacus....brought it to my house on his way home. How's that for service?

Check back later for the Sunday Stumble!!!