Elgin Township Democrats

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Charities

Citizen Police Academy Alumni Association (CPAAA) Breakfast

The Elgin Township Democrats are happy to be participating as part of the Citizen Police Academy Alumni Association (CPAAA) Breakfast Ministry Team on Saturday, March 21, 2020. We already have a nice list of volunteers, but we welcome all members to get involved.

full breakfast with scrambled eggs, fried potatoes and bacon,

The breakfast will be serving between 40 and 60 hungry and homeless people in Elgin at 7:00am at the Vineyard Church located at 220 Division, Elgin, IL.

Want to Get Involved?

If you are interested in participating, please coordinate with Carl Strathmann: 630.890.3460. He is organizing the ETD effort, so he’ll be the best contact for all questions pertaining to the breakfast.

We know everyone in the ETD is part of the group so you can help improve the community we share. This is another wonderful opportunity to make a difference.

If you are interested in participating, here are the details:

The Elgin Township Democrats as an organization are picking up some of the expense of this charitable endeavor. If you are feeling generous, you are certainly encouraged to contribute whatever food purchases you can afford. However if you can only offer your time, the ETD is happy to reimburse you for any expenses. Please coordinate with Carl and keep your receipts.

Please let Carl know if you choose to help serve on Saturday March 21. It will be an early day as all food needs to be prepared and cooked prior to bringing it to the Church between 6:30am and 6:45am.

The church does have ovens to keep food warm and outlets to plug into if you are bringing warming trays or crock pots.

Listed below are recommendations on what can be provided. Check with Carl to see if anyone has claimed any breakfast to prepare. Ideally your containers will be disposable or recyclable. If you need them back, then please make sure that they are clearly marked with your information.

Hot Breakfast Ideas:

  • Potato Casseroles or Breakfast Casseroles (Art & Cathy Malm (2) Judy & Vern Tepe to bring egg & meat dish
  • Quiche Dishes (Donna Griffin-Lego will do (5))
  • Potato Dishes
  • Scrambled Eggs
  • Boiled Egg
  • Biscuits and Gravy (Mike Meier will do this and provide warmers to plug in)
  • Meat – sausage patties, links, bacon, ham, chicken etc. (Janice Bennett will do meat)
  • Pancakes
  • Waffles
  • Oatmeal (Cherryl Strathmann will do crock pot )
  • Cereals
  • Grits
  • Danishes or Muffins
  • Yogurt Cups
  • Cereal Bars
  • Cookies
  • Apples – Limited
  • Fruit Cups
  • Note that our guests always appreciate juice, milk, and bread.

Elgin Township Democrats (ETD) will provide:

  • Orange Juice (gallon containers)
  • Milk (gallon containers)
  • Bottled Water
  • Bananas
  • Oranges
  • Bread

Donations Requests: 

The following donations would also be greatly appreciated by our guests:

Socks, Men’s underwear, hoodies, sweat pants, and warm clothes.

We also could use small quantities of plastic grocery bags as we keep running out of these, and our guests often request them.

Thank you for your help in serving our community.

Carl Strathmann/ETD Chair
Cstrath1@gmail.com
630-890-3460 cell

Jim Hoeflich
Jim.hoeflich@msgmi.com
773-682-2122 cel
coordinator for church

Christy Schmidt
EPD Community Relations/Crime Prevention
847-289-2588

Emergency winter shelter in Elgin looking for volunteers

The emergency winter homeless shelter at First United Methodist Church in Elgin will be run for the first time this year by House of Restoration Community Outreach, a nonprofit headed by Lucy and Pedro Gomez. The shelter will be open when it’s 15 degrees or colder.

The Elgin Township Democrats plan to collect clothing, food and supplies for the shelter at our December, 18, 2018 meeting.

Read the full article at the Daily Herald

Elgin Township Democrats Fall Fundraiser 2017

Pets for VetsJoin us for good conversation and benefit a Veteran and a shelter animal.

Carmina’s Restaurant
1055 N. Randall Rd
Elgin, IL 60123

Sunday, November 12th, 2017
5 pm to 8 pm

Hors d’oeuvres and Cash Bar
Cost: $25.00 per person

(Dinners can be purchased from the Dining Room.)

$5.00 of every ticket will be donated to Pets for Vets

About the program: The Pets for Vets program is dedicated to supporting veterans and providing a second chance for shelter pets by rescuing, training and pairing them with America’s veterans who could benefit from a companion animal.

Trump won the presidency? As Democrats, what do we do now?

The Elgin Township Democrats fought hard to get Democrats elected up and down the tickets. While we can be proud of our many candidates that won their races, unfortunately Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States.

Bernie Sander’s position on the President Elect matches that of many of us.

“To the degree that Mr. Drumpf is serious about pursuing policies that improve the lives of working families in this country, I and other progressives are prepared to work with him. To the degree that he pursues racist, sexist, xenophobic and anti-environment policies, we will vigorously oppose him.”

In our household, we decided to make donations to organizations that stand for the ideals we believe in.

You may also want to select a reliable news source to support. We need to make sure the media we trust has the funds to employ investigative reports to dig and report the news truthfully. Here are a few good ones:

This is nowhere near an all inclusive list. You will certainly have your own preferred organizations. Donate and get involved.

We weren’t the only ones to have this idea

We were rather happy to see that we weren’t the only ones that had this idea. Here are donation recommendations we saw the next day on Last Week Tonight with John Olliver

  • To that end, we need to focus on helping insure our progressive values are protected wherever possible. So if you can afford the time or money, here are some organizations that are worth supporting.
  • To support women’s health, donate to Planned Parenthood (plannedparenthood.org) or the Center for Reproductive Rights (reproductiverights.org).
  • If you don’t believe man made global warming is a silly issue, give to the Natural Resources Defense Council (nrdc.org).
  • If you don’t think refugees are a terrorist army in disguise, donate to the International Refugee Assistance Project (refugeerights.org).
  • You may also want to donate to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (naacpldf.org), the Trevor Project for LGBT youth (thetrevorproject.org), or the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (maldef.org).
  • And to support journalism, subscribe to a newspaper and donate to ProPublica (propublica.org).