Adopt-a-Roadway
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Car clubs and roads go together like
hummingbirds and air, like cactus and desert, like engines and oil,
like,
well, you get the idea. It makes sense for a car club to beautify our
roads, doesn't it? Our club has a permit from the Pima
County
Adopt-a-Roadway program to clean Orange Grove between Oracle and
1st, in Tucson. Our road is only
3/4 mile long. Come and find out what
the kids throw out the windows or what drops off people's cars -- you
may
go home with some new CDs or valuable car parts. We may even solve the
mystery of why there is always just one sneaker by the side of the road
instead of two. 
All participants must be at least 14
years old. The county provides trash bags and safety
vests. Large objects, like lumber or tires, get dragged to the pile of
filled
trash bags. Hazardous objects, like car batteries or roadkill, are left
where they are and reported to the county.
See our scrapbook
for photos from previous litter pickups. Contact our
Adopt-a-Roadway chairman, Jan
Ramaker, for more information on our program.
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Our club raises money for charitable
donations twice a year, in May and at the end of the year.
Cinco de Mayo
For our Cinco de Mayo event in May,
anyone can pledge a contribution to TASL, the Tucson Arthritis Support
League. Contributions are based on the performance of Porsche club
members in the concours and autocross competitions, or you can make a
donation
independently. In 2003 we raised over $2000 for TASL. You
can learn more
about Cinco de Mayo and TASL in this description
(PDF
formatted).
Holiday Food Baskets
For more than 15 years the club has been
donating
food baskets to needy families in November and December. We have
donated several hundred dollars worth of food each year for several
years. One of our members, Patsy Conklin, organizes purchasing of food
and assembling it into baskets, then distributes the baskets at the
holidays. Since Patsy works
for the Division of Developmental Disabilities Child Family Services,
she is able to determine who can most
benefit from our donations. As you can see from the letter at right,
the baskets are most appreciated.
These donations are made in memory of a
club member who passed away several years ago, Dick Huhn. Dick donated
his time to purchase food for baskets and then delivered the baskets to
the families supported by Child Family Services. He did this for many
years and after Dick passed away, the club made the decision to
continue his tradition of giving.
The generosity of the club has helped
many families over the past years. The donations made by the club and
its members are tax deductible.
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I write you today with a heart
full of
gratitude. You may not remember this day that you decided to bless us
with
a delicious Thanksgiving dinner, but I do! And I will never forget it!
You
may ask yourself "why"? I will tell you why, it is very simple yet
special.
I can imagine and believe that you
felt an immense gratitude for all the
blessing that God has given you and it comes out of your heart to share
what
God has blessed you with; that makes my heart rejoice.
My gratitude is not only because
my family was the recipient of your gift,
even if it had been another family I would be equally happy. Of course
your
generosity made my family very happy.
We hope that one day I will be in
the position to do the same. In the meantime God keeps providing us
with what we need.
May God continue blessing you. We
are grateful for people like you.
A MILLION THANKS!
-A letter from a recipient of a food basket,
translated from Spanish, printed in the March 2003 Zuffenhausen News.
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