Special Events @ Yolo Wayfarer Center


	Yolo Wayfarer Center Emergency Shelter Open House October 19, 2006 Featuring “Empty Bowls” Luncheon You are invited to help open the doors of the Yolo Wayfarer Center’s new year-round homeless shelter and to raise awareness of hunger on October 19th. After many years of planning and hard work, the year round Emergency Shelter will open at Fourth and North streets in Woodland, October 2006. To celebrate and give the community an opportunity to tour the facility, Yolo Wayfarer Center is presenting an Empty Bowls lunch on October 19th with two available seating times. The goal of the event is to raise awareness of the need for the year round shelter and to raise money to fight hunger in Woodland and Yolo County. The date has chosen to complement World Food Day on October 16th, 2006. Yolo Wayfarer Center has been serving the homeless and hungry of this community for more than 20 years. Humble beginnings from a grassroots organization of compassionate community members has grown to the current accomplishments of serving more than 27,000 hot meals per year in addition to providing groceries to the low income and needy. Wayfarer has expanded over the years to include emergency and transitional shelter for the homeless and address addiction and mental health needs of the most vulnerable, providing support to find employment, building personal skills and accessing permanent housing. The basic premise of the Empty Bowls event is simple: guests select one handmade bowl (donated by local artists) as a reminder of hunger in the world and are served a simple soup lunch in exchange for a cash donation. They are asked to keep their bowl as a reminder of the meal’s purpose. Each time they take the bowl from the cupboard they will be reminded that someone’s bowl is always empty and that on this one occasion they helped alleviate hunger and could choose to do so again at any time. The Empty bowls luncheon will be held from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 19th. Tickets will be available for sale in August. How You Can Help Be a Founding Sponsor and donate $5,000 to the event. You will receive seating for up to eight guests at the event and your business name will be on the t-shirt worn by volunteers and coordinators the day of the event, printed in local ads and press releases, and on the program. You will also receive special recognition the day of the event. Be a Supporting Sponsor and donate $1,000 to the event. You will receive seating for two guests at the event and your name will be included in all promotions. Be a Contributing Sponsor and donate $500 to the event. You will be our guest at the event and be mentioned in all promotions. Other Donor / Sponsor Options $100 $250 $1500 $2500 Purchase tickets #_____ tickets @ $25.00 = $_____ Tickets on sale at your business location Please call 530.661.1218 to reserve your ticket, or purchase them at Premier West Bank (Main and Fifth St.), at the Corner Drug, or at the Wayfarer Center Office located at Freeman Park in the United Way building (keep in mind their offices will be moving this week, and early next to Fourth and North Streets). All proceeds from this event will be used in the efforts of Yolo Wayfarer Center’s fight against hunger.