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Jul. 31, 2008	Buy Your Tickets Now for Taste of the Nation Seattle 2008's Taste of the Nation Seattle will take place on Thursday, July 31 at the South Lake Union Naval Reserve Building. Join up to 50 of Seattle's hottest chefs and restaurants to support the fight to end childhood hunger in our community. 100% of ticket sales go directly to five local hunger relief agencies, including Food Lifeline, to help ensure no child in America grows up hungry. VIP Tickets grant you access to a special reception at 5pm aboard the VIRGINIA V, a National Historic Landmark Vessel, and an extra hour of food and beverages. VIP Tickets are available for $125 each. General Admission tickets are $75 and are good for admission to the event, which occurs from 6pm to 9pm. Tickets can be purchased online at http://tasteofthenation.com/seattle

Sep. 18, 2008	Save the Date for Bag Hunger 2008 Food Lifeline's annual Bag Hunger Luncheon and Auction will take place on Thursday, September 18, 2008 at the Grand Hyatt Seattle. This year's guest speaker will be local restaurateur, celebrity chef, and Food Lifeline Board Member, Tom Douglas, who will be joined by emcee, Elisa Jaffey of KOMO TV News. Food Lifeline's Ending Hunger Award winners will also be announced throughout the course of the luncheon. If you are interested in attending this year's luncheon as a guest, table captain or sponsor, please send an email to Carla Englander or give her a call at (206) 545-6600, ext. 227.

Jun. 1, 2008 - Aug. 31, 2008	Full Sail Brewery Promotion Support Food Lifeline, and Support Local Craft Beer! Every day during the months of June, July, and August Full Sail Brewery will donate a portion of the proceeds from each case of beer sold at participating Western Washington grocery stores to Food Lifeline, the Western Washington member of America's Second Harvest, the Nation's Food Bank Network. In the months of June and July, Full Sail will donate $1.00 per case sold at participating Western Washington Albertsons stores. In the months of July and August, Full Sail will donate $0.50 per case sold at participating Western Washington QFC stores. Each dollar donated will provide five meals to hungry children in Western Washington. This is the third year that Full Sail is offering this promotion through Albertson's grocery stores in the Northwest, and the fourth year Full Sail has partnered with QFC to support Food Lifeline's efforts to end hunger in Western Washington.

Jul. 11, 2008 - Jul. 28, 2008	Food Frenzy 2008 They're off and running, but this is not your typical race! Sixty-nine Food Frenzy competitors, including your favorite local law, accounting, and architecture firms, are putting a creative spin this month on raising money to feed hungry children. We're talking 10-key relay races, cookie bake-offs, and cut-throat karaoke! Look for the Food Frenzy Participant sign around town, and make a contribution to support this wacky competition. Or click here to vote for your favorite firm with a financial donation to Food Lifeline. Just type in a name from the list below when you donate. Many thanks to Wells Fargo Bank for sponsoring Food Frenzy this year, to our three Challenging Firms (bolded below), and to the following enthusiastic Food Frenzy participants: Aoki Sakamoto Grant LLP Ater Wynne LLP Bader Martin, P.S. BDO Seidman LLP Bennett Bigelow & Leedom, PS Benson & McLaughlin Berntson Porter & Company, PLLC Bishop, White & Marshall Brantley, Janson Yost & Ellison City of Bellevue Attorney's Office Clark Nuber Clothier & Head Cozen O'Connor Davis Wright Tremaine LLP DLA Piper US LLP Federal Public Defenders Garvey Schubert Barer Gordon Tilden Thomas & Cordell LLP GordonDerr LLP Grant Thornton LLP Heller Ehrman LLP Johnson & Shute, P.S. K&L Gates Karr Tuttle Campbell Keller Rohrback LLP King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office Lake Forest Park Municipal Court Lane Powell Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson Law Office of Cynthia Whitaker Le Gros Buchanan & Paul Lee Smart, P.S., Inc. Lembhard G. Howell P.S. Marten Law Group PLLC McCullough Hill, P.S. McNaul Ebel Nawrot & Helgren PLLC Montgomery Purdue Blankinship & Austin Moss Adams LLP Office of the Attorney General Ogden Murphy Wallace PLLC Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker Perkins Coie LLP Peterson Sullivan PLLC Phillips Law Group PriceWaterhouse Coopers LLP Reed McClure Reed, Longyear, Malnati, Ahrens & West, PLLC Riddell Williams, PS Ryan Swanson & Cleveland, PLLC Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt Seattle Municipal Court Sebris Busto James Seed IP Law Group Sloan Bobrick & Kesling, P.S. Socius Law Group, PLLC Speckman Law Group, PLLC SRG Partnership Inc. Stafford Frey Cooper Stanislaw Ashbaugh Stokes Lawrence P.S. Summit Law Group Sweeney Conrad, P.S. The Miller\|Hull Partnership The Nathanson Group PLLC Vandeberg Johnson & Gandara, LLP Washington State Bar Association Wechsler Becker, LLP Williams Kastner Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Other Events:

	Edmonds Winery Promotion Edmonds Winery's newly released 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon/Merlot benefits hungry people in Western Washington. $2.50 will be donated to Food Lifeline for every bottle sold! Click here for more info.

	Food Lifeline is an Albertsons Community Partner If you shop at Albertsons with your Preferred Savings Card be sure to link your card to Food Lifeline! Simply go to www.albertsons.com and click on "In the Community" and "Community Partners". Link your card to Food Lifeline using our Community Partner ID Number: 49001014290, then shop as usual! Food Lifeline will receive a check from Albertsons to support the children we serve at Western Washington food banks.

	The Pampered Chef Customers have the opportunity to round up their orders to the nearest dollar or more to help feed hungry families. This year a beautiful, heart-shaped, copper-plated trivet has been introduced. $2 from each trivet sold in our area will benefit Food Lifeline. For more information or to host a party, go to the Pampered Chef web site.

Event Results:

Aug. 1, 2007	Food Frenzy Breaks All Records! A tremendous thank you to all the Food Frenzy participants for your outstanding support of Food Frenzy this year! Together you raised over $200,000, enough to provide 1.2 million meals for hungry children for hungry children. The nutritious food you collected and your tremendous outpouring of volunteer support at Food Lifeline's warehouse mean thousands more meals will reach hungry families this summer. Congratulations to the top organizations in each category, and remember that the real winners are the hungry kids you're feeding through your generosity and hard work.

Sep. 26, 2007	10th Anniversary Bag Hunger a Success A tremendous thank you to Moneytree, Inc., The Boeing Company, and Safeco Insurance for their sponsorship of the 10th Anniversary Bag Hunger Luncheon and Auction! With their support and the generosity of the luncheon attendees, Food Lifeline raised over $120,000! Bidding for the seven auction items was fast and furious, raising $6,500 to help feed hungry children in Western Washington. Among the items guests had the opportunity to bid on were a barrel filled with bottles of wine donated by the Food Lifeline Board of Directors, three weekend getaways, a quilt created for the event by the Boeing In Stitches Quilt Club, and two pairs of Seattle Seahawks tickets! The traditional Bag Hunger Commemorative Plates made way for a new tradition: note cards featuring the hopes and dreams of children served by some of the 300 food banks, meal programs and shelters that Food Lifeline provides food. If you are interested in purchasing a set of these limited edition note cards or one of the few remaining commemorative plates, please send an email to Events@FLL.org

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