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Reader pic: Breakfast Rotary donates to Emory Valley Center

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Breakfast Rotary Donates to Emory Valley Center

The Oak Ridge Breakfast Rotary Club makes a donation to the Emory Valley Center Capital Campaign. Pictured from left to right are Pete Peterson, ORBRC president; Rotarian Gene Caldwell and Dottie Thompson, campaign co-chairs; and Rotarian Dub Shults. (Submitted photo)

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The Oak Ridge Breakfast Rotary Club recently made a donation to the Emory Valley Center Capital Campaign.

The capital campaign is raising money to help replace an Emory Valley Center building on Emory Valley Road. The center is raising money to replace the 55-year-old building, which will be demolished.

The Emory Valley Center serves intellectually and developmentally disabled children and adults in East Tennessee.

Gene Caldwell and Dottie Thompson are co-chairing the capital campaign. Anyone wishing to donate may do so by mailing a contribution to P.O. Box 5328, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, or by going online to www.emoryvalleycenter.com.

Guest column: Family donates van to Emory Valley Center

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Emory Valley Center Van Donation

Pictured above are, from left, David Samuels, Amy Long, and Robin Biloski. (Submitted photo)

The Samuels family of Oak Ridge opened up their hearts in a very big way to Emory Valley Center recently by donating a handicapped accessible van to the center. I had the opportunity to sit and talk to David Samuels, son of Garland and Marie Samuels, who donated the vehicle, and he provided me this great story.

“The van was bought by my dad for my mom, Marie, and used in her later years. We were all very familiar with the outreach of EVC, as my sister Jane was a former service recepient at EVC years ago. My mom advocated for those with intellectual disabilities; she served on the Board of ARC from the late 1980s through the early 1990s. In fact, she was chosen as the ARC Volunteer of the Year twice in the 1990s. Helping people who needed us most was just a part of our family culture growing up.

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Emory Valley Center donates to United Way

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Emory Valley Center Donates to United Way

Pictured above from left to right are Georgia Brownfield and Heather Gann of Emory Valley Center, United Way chair Tom Hilton, and Robin Biloski of EVC. (Submitted photo)

Emory Valley Center recently presented a check for $16,320 to Tom Hilton from Y-12 Federal Credit Union, the 2012 United Way Chair.

“United Way is a generous donor to Emory Valley Center, and we as employees felt the best way to let the agency know of our appreciation was to contribute to the fund campaign,” said Heather Gann, EVC United Way Leader. “United Way of Anderson County is such a support system to so many agencies, and we are also a support system to adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities; it just seemed a natural fit.”

“We so much appreciate the donation of the many Emory Valley Center employees,” Hilton said. “We are pleased to assist agencies such as Emory Valley Center as they do so much for the community.”

DOE employees donate more than 11,000 pounds of food to Second Harvest

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Second Harvest Feds Feed Families

At right, John Shewairy of the U.S. Department of Energy in Oak Ridge gives Second Harvest’s John Bell, center, a food donation as part of the Feds Feed Families campaign. Aaron White, left, coordinated this year’s campaign. (Photo by Lynn Freeny/DOE)

U.S. Department of Energy employees donated 11,437 pounds of food on Thursday to the Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee.

The donation was part of the national Feds Feed Families campaign, a press release said.

“This is the third year the DOE’s Oak Ridge site has participated in the annual summer campaign, which helps replenish local food banks and raises awareness about the prevalence of hunger nationally,” the release said.

Under the direction of DOE’s local federal employee mentor program, more than 11,000 pounds of food has been donated for three consecutive years, the release said.

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UT-Battelle donates $60,000 to Second Harvest Food Bank

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ORNL and Second Harvest

Second Harvest Food Bank Executive Director Elaine Streno accepts the first $20,000 installment of a $60,000 UT-Battelle donation from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thom Mason. (Photo submitted by ORNL)

UT-Battelle gave Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee $20,000 on Wednesday.

It’s the first part of a three-year, $60,000 donation to help the local nonprofit organization feed hungry East Tennessee residents, a press release said.

UT-Battelle, which manages Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy, donated the money at its annual United Way Leadership Giver’s Breakfast, the release said.