Thank you for supporting 2021 CHOW DOWN FOR CHARITY

For the second year, our friends at the Spa at River Ridge provided their location at 5555 Wall Street, Dublin OH for this delicious charity event benefitting

Dublin Food Pantry www.dublinfoodpantry.org

Dublin Bridges www.neighborhoodbridges.org/community/dublin-oh

Welcome Warehouse www.welcomewarehouse.org

Thank you to all who participated and kindly donated. Our DFP team was happy to be part of this collaborative event!

Heartfelt thanks to Deb Papesh for spearheading this effort. Thankful for the success of the event, Deb said, "Together our three nonprofits are able to target the specific needs and services which families in our community need. How grateful are we to be able to collaborate together to reach such a goal each day!"

Thank you to event partners including:

🚛 4 Food Trucks donating a % of sales:

TacoMania

https://www.facebook.com/tacomaniafoodtruck/

Hisham's

https://www.facebook.com/hishamsfood/

HotMess

https://www.facebook.com/hotmessfoodtrck/

RimeTimePops

https://www.facebook.com/rimetimepops/

And thank you to volunteers, including student volunteers, who were on hand for each of these 501(3)c organizations collecting kind

♡ financial donations ( you may select a charity or donations will be split)

♡ school supplies

♡ personal care items

♡ canned soup or other non-perishable food or personal care need items

🎟 Raffle tickets were distributed

Thank you for these wonderful Raffle PRIZES: ▶︎(3) $50 Gift Card to Spa at River Ridge

https://www.thespaatriverridge.com ▶︎$25 Gift Card to Healthy Blends in Dublin https://www.facebook.com/healthyblendsdublin/

▶︎ (5) $50 Gift Cards to FitFresh

https://www.fitfreshfast.com ▶︎A gift basket of Eco-Friendly Household helpers from Lauren Alexander Designs http://www.laurenalexanderdesigns.com/#/ ▶︎A SAMPLER PARTY PACK from Ridiculously Good Salsa

https://rgoodsalsa.com ▶︎Rah Rah Spirit Wear

https://rahrahgear.com

▶︎ Biopure Columbus was on hand to give away free electrostatic disinfection and answer questions https://www.facebook.com/bioPUREcolumbus/ ▶︎And a donation from Tracy Eddy of https://www.mythirtyone.com/us/en/TracyE

Thank you to all of our many partners and supports and special shout out to all of the High School student volunteers:

Julie Zhu

Sarah Kim

Angela Zhou

Rachel Villalobos

Grace Lee

Frances Pavell

Nalay Williams

Anvitha Kuchikulla

Esha Kanakia

And thank you to the student volunteer coordinator and all-around event star - helping in so many ways - Beth Kelly Lustgarten, a Bowling Green State University student who volunteered her time to help!