The Westminster Office Volunteer Committee sponsored a Super Bowl Lunch. The Committee provided BBQ sandwiches, chips, sides and cookies for $5.00. Along with that purchase each person was given a raffle ticket to enter into a drawing for a $25.00 King Soopers Gift Certificate. The money raised for this event was donated to The Gathering Place. The Gathering Place is Denver’s only daytime drop-in center for women children, and transgender individuals who are experiencing homelessness and poverty. The funds they receive go towards providing them a warm place to work on finding a job or just get a hot meal for the day. Their website www.tgpdenver.org explains many other opportunities that they provide to help get these individuals back on their feet. We all had a great time and very good eats as a precursor to the Super Bowl. Unfortunately the Broncos did not make it to the Super Bowl this year, but we never give up on our home team. Maybe next year.

On Wednesday April 3 the volunteer committee held its 2^nd Annual Hot Dog Bar for the employees of MSI. Employees who purchased a lunch deal received a fresh steamed hot dog and bun with all of the usual toppings, chips, sodas, cookies and one ticket for a raffle to win 2 Rockies tickets all for only $5.00 each! The hot dogs were fabulous and tasted just like the ones you get at the ballpark. Everyone enjoyed a fun lunch and the volunteer committee raised $259.00 which goes towards our goal to help the Women Bean Project, our adopted charity for 2013

During March the volunteer committee returned to East Park at Interlocken to clean up trash as our adopted area for the City of Broomfield. It was a beautiful spring day and we collected a lot of trash and left the park ready for lots of spring and summer guests.

To kick off the new year and get a jump start our collecting dollars for our charity of the year, Women’s Bean Project, the volunteer committee held a 50/50 Raffle. Raffle tickets were sold for $2.00 each for a chance to win half of the money collected. The sales totaled $216.00, so the lucky winner went home with $113.00 for purchasing a $2.00 ticket. Not a bad return on your money!! The Women’s Bean Project is an organization that helps prepare women to enter back into society by teaching the skills and helping them find good paying jobs. The organization is based in Denver, Colorado and had a 100% placement rate in 2012. The website for the organization is http://www.womensbeanproject.com/ for more details on the organization and their efforts.

MSI Volunteers helped serve lunch at the MS Walk on Saturday, May 6th, and took the very early morning shift to help register racers for the MS150 Bike Tour on July 8th. The Walk and the Bike Tour are annual MS events to help raise funds to find a cure, and build awareness of this devastating disease.