One week ago people and businesses were dropping off rolls of toilet paper at United Way’s Toilet Paper Drive at Cal Expo.
Today nonprofit representatives from Amador, El Dorado, Placer. Sacramento and Yolo counties picked up their supplies at Food Link on Fruitridge Rd.
One of them was Mary Case with Wellspring Women Center in Oak Park. She’s been volunteering there for 17 years.
"It’s a drop-in center for women and children five days a week," Case said. "We serve breakfast, we have social workers, counselors and in the afternoon we have parenting classes, art classes and we are very close to the Food Bank."
She said it’s a place for women to "come and be."
"Part of the Center, it’s an old firehouse, is a children’s center," Case explained."We have a coordinator there so the moms can sit and have a cup of coffee while somebody’s watching the kids."
Wellspring received 17 cases. There are 96 rolls in a case and the 1632 rolls barely fit into her pickup truck shown below. No room to spare.
A big 70,000 donation from Charmin put them over the top at 229,485 rolls. Many local companies held miniature toilet paper drives to contribute to United Way’s drive. Besides Charmin and Sac-Val Janitorial, other top donors included Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Intel, CSAC Excess Insurance Authority, Allied/Nationwide, The Golden 1 Credit Union, Scott Brand, Simplex Grinnell, Bank of America and International Association of Machinists Local 1946.
Partners include FOX40, Sac-Val Janitorial Supply, Clear Channel Media & Entertainment, Clear Channel Outdoor, The Sacramento Bee, California Emergency Foodlink, Cal Expo, AT&T, The Golden 1 Credit Union, River City Printers, Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 447, Association of Plumbing Mechanical Contractors and Mechanical Contractors Association."
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