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Can you imagine a more bleak existence than sitting in your chair and watching daytime television and reruns every day?

Well neither can we!

SPARC is proud of our continuing education and lifelong learning programs. The best part of learning throughout your life is that your world keeps expanding. And as we learn, we also practice being great community citizens. 

SPARC now works with TWO organizations to provide loving support and outreach for our community. Yes, we're a group of individuals who need your donations to help us pay for therapists and some supplies, but we LOVE giving back to our communities.

We have begun working with our local Ronald McDonald House and help a local church's food pantry provide 100 families with fresh fruits and vegetables every month. We think you'll love the story of how the church came to us and asked, "How can we help you?"

We turned the question around on them and said, "Well, how can we together?"

Together we help create a new way to get fresh foods to families in need. 

A church member goes to a local food bank where they can get fresh produce for free. Those potatoes and vegetables and fruits come in HUGE quantities--often as much as 50 pounds. A different church member brings all that healthy and fresh food to our clubhouse. That's where we bag them for individual families. The church comes back in a couple of hours and brings the sorted and bagged food back so that they can distribute it the next day.

Hunger is a worldwide problem. There is hunger even in America's wealthiest communities. A typical food pantry has to rely on canned goods and shelf-stable products like peanut butter and pasta because food is often stored for a long time. By getting fresh produce and having us immediately bag the food the day before it's distributed, we make a BIG DIFFERENCE in the quantity and quality of what people receive.

Helping a local food pantry is just one way we give back to our community. Wlll you please help support our efforts? You help us, and you help the people we help.  It's win-win-win!