Life & Real Estate in Eugene, Springfield & Lane County, Oregon

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If I had $220 in savings each year, I wouldn't just be sleeping out here in the cold.

I wouldn't be sitting around my warm home office trying to find a way to cut my business expenses in a tough "wintry" economic climate. 

Neither would I be trying to enter the Kodak/ActiveRain contest to win a new all-in-one Kodak ESP 6150 Office copier - despite the fact that my own printer's scanner just "died and went to heaven" this weekend.

Kodak 6150 Office All-in-One Printer

  Nor would I be dreaming of my own "mansions above" or those 2000 Active Rain bonus points it might get if I get this post done before midnight.



I certainly wouldn't be trying to figure out what to do with the big pile of used printer ink cartridges that's been building up in a plastic bag in a corner of my office:

Used HP ink jet printer cartidges


I wouldn't be trying to figure out some way to reuse all that wasted plastic - like using them to mimic the x' and o's I hope to see when my Oregon Ducks (in the outstanding yellow Nike uniforms) meet the Boise State Broncos (in the outrageous blue uni's) in the NCAA BCS National Collegiate Football Championship game in early January:

The Oregon Ducks v. The Boise State Broncos in the BCS National Championship


Nope, if I had that extra $220 (or more) in reduced copier/printer ink costs or won the prize in this contest, I would be making make a cash contribution to

The Egan Warming Center in Eugene, Oregon.


They could use the help.

The Egan Warming Center helps otherwise homeless people survive through the coldest nights of the year in our metro area...beginning this week and continuing until spring.

The Egan Warming Center is a coalition of disparate community members representing service providers, religious congregations, nonprofits, activist groups and local government who have come together to ensure that homeless people in Lane County have a place to sleep indoors when the local temperature drops to 28 degrees or below between November 15th and March 31st.

The Center is not so much a place as it is a website/organization by which all the cooperating groups and individuals coordinate the opening of several participating churches - to allow a warm night's stay and a meal.

The Center benefits greatly from the cooperation of Food for Lane County. It receives overall administration through St. Vincent de Paul.

The Egan Warming Center is not a complete solution to homelessness. But neither is it as ineffective as handing money to a homeless person standing, cardboard sign in hand, at some city intersection.

The beneficiaries must identify themselves.  They must not use drugs or alcohol while staying in the church shelters - but neither are they asked to participate in religious activities.

If you lead an organization or own a business here, please take a moment and consider how you and/or your organization or business can get involved this winter season.




Or if you would just like to help yourself - regardless of whether you gain a savings though buying a more efficient printer/copier - go to the warming center website:


See how you can help.  Sign up for a hosting shift. Volunteer in some other way. Give.

If you don't live here, I'll bet something similar exists in your city.  If not, you could help start one.

Remember:  

There, but for the grace of God, go you... or yours.


Thank you Kodak and Active Rain for spurring me to do this tiny post to help a cause that is more than just heart warming:

The Egan Warming Center, Eugene, Oregon.


The last I looked, it was forecast to be 18 degrees here tonight.

 

 

 

This post is for the ActiveRain 'I could save $220 with Kodak Contest. I have a chance to win a free Kodak Printer, $$220 in cash to use for the idea in my blog post, and an extra $100 to use toward ink!.

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Jim Hale

Principal Broker / Owner

Graduate, REALTOR Institute             e-PRO

2012 Member, Million Dollar Club of Lane County

2012 Member, Real Estate Brokers Million Dollar Club


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