This Week’s Most Needed Items: Second Season Donations

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This week, on our most needed items — Second Season comes to the top of the list.  For those of you that don’t know, Second Season Thrift Store is located on the waterfront in downtown Poulsbo.  All the profit from the store goes directly to support NK Fishline.  

Think of Second Season when starting your spring cleaning this year.  Our donation bins are in need of restocking, and we would greatly appreciate your gently used items.  

We accept clothing, home decor, small kitchen items, linens, and books in  gently used and excellent condition for resell.  You can drop your donations off during business hours:  Monday to Saturday, from 10am to 5pm.  Our address is 18825 Anderson Parkway, directly across from the waterfront.  

Please note, we do not accept the following items:  electronics, baby furniture, mattresses, used toys, exercise equipment.


Other needed items this week:


Please continue to think of NK Fishline when grocery shopping.  

We are still in need of fresh produce.  While we focus on canned and non-perishable good for food drives and other collections around the community, we also accept fresh produce at the food bank.  We have a shortage of fresh items this time of year for lettuce, broccoli, and other greens.  Donations of these fresh items can be dropped of at the food bank between 8am and 3:30pm on Mon, Tues, Thurs, and Friday and as late as 7pm on Wednesdays.  

Diapers
Diapers! We always need diapers! Please drop off your diapers at the food bank or at any of our collection bins located at Albertson’s, Central Market, or Red Apple.  


“From Biopsy to Bell” — A Heartfelt Letter from Camille Meyers

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From Biopsy to Bell

My journey started the last week of September, 2012.  My wonderful Fishline family celebrated its annual  thank you dinner for the volunteers.  I asked if I could share a presentation of the 31 years I was blessed to give to Fishline Food Bank and Thrift Shop.  Union Bank then put a wonderful display about Fishline and a write-up of my years at Fishline at the entrance of the Bank. 

This journey took a bump in the road for me.  The biopsy showed a cancerous tumor on the side of my tongue.  Wow!!  Why me!?!  The preparation, the treatments, radiation every day.  Chemo one day a week.  The loving dedication of the medical staff.  The not knowing if I’m willing, the learning processes of cancer.  I’m in the middle of my journey.

With my family, children, grandchildren and Fishline family beside me, Saturday night, January 26, 2013 at Kiana Lodge, I received a beautiful award as 2012 Volunteer of the Year from the Poulsbo Chamber of Commerce.


I’m waiting to ring that Bell at the end of my treatment, ringing the sound loud and clear – the bump in the journey is over. 


I cannot ever thank my family, friends and Fishline family for all the love and support they have shown me every day. 


With loving support to all of the people also taking their journey,
 

Camille Meyers

 


“I Can See Clearly Now….”

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We can see clearly now at Second Season Thrift Store!  Special thanks to Stuart Miller of M & R Homecare — who stopped by Second Season and offered to donate their services to give our windows at the shop a much needed cleaning.  Stuart and his crew worked through the afternoon and did an amazing job! 


Thank you to M & R Homecare!

M & R Homecare offers window washing, gutter cleaning, and other home cleaning services.  They can be found at 16300 Reitan Rd., Bainbridge Island, and contacted on their Facebook page, or at (360) 842-8563.


Fishline Celebrates February’s Community Partner: North Point Church

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In what has become a holiday tradition in our community, folks dance the night away to the big band music of Buz Whiteley, bid on lovely and whimsical baskets in a silent auction and visit with neighbors under twinkling holiday lights. All proceeds from this magical night go to North Kitsap Fishline, thanks to the many years of effort and dedication of the North Point Church community.  The baskets are donated, Buz Whiteley donates the performance to Fishline and the event is organized by volunteers. Because of this generosity, the amount raised for Fishline just keeps growing every year. In 2012, over $6,000 was raised – an extraordinary amount that will help many in our community.


North Point also partners with Fishline in its distribution of holiday baskets, with members of the congregation preparing holiday meal boxes for the clients who need them the most. It also hosts the Adopt-a-Family program, where donors receive a wish list from struggling families and then provide gifts to assure a good holiday is shared by all. The Church hosts the School Supply program in the fall and has recently started making blankets for the SafePark program for homeless single women. North Point has also encouraged its community to volunteer with us, and many do.

In addition to their work with Fishline, North Point supports other organizations such as Younglife, Oasis India, and Second Table Ministries.  Their commitment to both their local and global community is a testament to their overall mission to help others. 


Being there for those in need is a mission shared by our community churches, and North Point has been an integral part of this web of caring. We are so grateful for the partnership shared over the years and look forward to an even greater cooperation in the years to come.

North Point Church is located in Poulsbo, at 1779 NE Hostmark Street.


Important Tax Information!

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Don’t forget!  If you have made cash or donations to NK Fishline or Second Season in the 2012 tax year, you can include these deductions when doing your taxes.  

North Kitsap Fishline is registered a 501(c)3 non profit organization.  All money, material, and food donations are eligible for tax deductible donation receipts upon request.  Fishline  spends only 3.7% of your dollars on overhead; 96.3% is spent on feeding, housing, and keeping those in need warm.  Your donations help feed and clothe people, keep them warm and dry and help with medical co-pays.  You help feed children on the weekend and provide shelter and sanitary facilities for the homeless and much more. 

Here is the information you may need:

North Kitsap Fishline

18916 NE Third Ave
Poulsbo, WA 98370 
 
Second Season Thrift Store
18825 Anderson Parkway
Poulsbo, Washington 98370

TAX ID:  91-1244431