FSIS Issues Public Health Alert for Chicken and Pork Tamales

 I don't think we had any of this through the site, but sharing for your own health! 

FSIS Issues Public Health Alert for Chicken and Pork Tamales Containing FDA-Regulated Diced Tomatoes in Puree That Have Been Recalled Due to Possible Foreign Matter Contamination

USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service sent this bulletin at 11/16/2020 01:20 AM EST

FSIS Issues Public Health Alert for Chicken and Pork Tamales Containing FDA-Regulated Diced Tomatoes in Puree That Have Been Recalled Due to Possible Foreign Matter Contamination

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for ready-to-eat (RTE) chicken and pork tamale products containing Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulated diced tomatoes in puree that have been recalled by the producer, due to concerns that the products may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically hard plastic.

Wednesday & Friday Helpers / New Shopping Rules / Voting for Panera

Please consider signing up to help at the site on Wednesdays and Fridays. 

Wednesdays link: 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A054EA8A72EA2F58-wednesday

Friday Links: 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A054EA8A72EA2F58-friday

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NEW RULE ON SHOPPING - It has been approved that each family will ONLY be allowed to shop 1 time per week. Please make sure to plan accordingly. This starts today!

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VOTING needed here: 

We currently pick up Panera on Tuesday and Friday. Due to our scheduling, the Panera from Tuesday often must be given to the pigs as it is a long time from Tuesday to Saturday Distribution. It has been suggested that we see if another gleaner group would like to take on TUESDAY pickup and we keep the Friday pickup. 

This is a group decision and we would like to know your opinion. This time is about 2 hours of Volunteer time and late at night pick up. It also has mileage reimbursement of about $8.00. We need you to vote and share your thoughts on this. Please vote by Friday the 20th at 5pm. 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdy4rMMz18apNXgEr8GWGIYs0slLuHow-g5EO9MSrBNcAkARg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Monday Signup - November 16th

 PLEASE READ ALL OF THIS as we are a MEMBER GROUP and this is your INFORMATION! 

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Changes to Shopping has been suggested! We have had to turn down shoppers on Monday due to some families shopping 2 times per week. We have only a certain amount of shopping time available with our volunteers. We need help and do not have additional volunteers to add more time to the shopping time. In the past few weeks we have had to turn multiple people down for shopping in the building as well as people have signed up for a box instead of being able to shop for themselves. We would like to limit shopping to 1 time per week. This will allow for members to shop for themselves with the hope of not having to turn folks away from being able to shop for themselves. 

We understand that some families enjoy shopping 2 times per week as we have different foods available on different days. We suggest that possibly you do one week on a Saturday and the next on a Monday. We would like to make this a POLICY during covid but it needs to go to a member vote. Please VOTE by Monday (November 16) at 5pm on this change: 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfmCcN0V5L6xV4LkEAEekVciQi45pgwdlc9RCsG_Y2hS3MkDw/viewform?usp=sf_link

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ADDITIONAL HELP NEEDED in the WEEK

Monday Winco Pickup at 9am

Wednesdays 10 - 12

Fridays 10 - 12

Please call Patty if you can help these days. 

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Shopping sign up for MONDAY - 

We need help with CLEANUP! It has been suggested that if you are the last group to shop that you would be the cleanup crew. We are going to make this is a suggestion. We have changed the sign up so that we have the last few shoppers as CLEAN UP CREW. Anyone can sign up to stay and cleanup. You sign up as cleanup, you will shop and then stay and help.  

ARRIVE 10 minutes EARLY so we can get you checked in. If you are LATE, you will be offered a PREMADE BOX of dry good plus meat and dairy if we have it-this was discussed at the meeting last night (November 12th). You will not be able to shop for yourself in the building if you are late.  

YOU MUST SIGN UP BY 9AM. We close the sign up at 9AM

SIGN UP CLOSED AT 9:11AM

Saturday Shop LIST - November 14th / Policy change / help needed

PLEASE READ ALL OF THIS as we are a MEMBER GROUP and this is your INFORMATION! 

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Changes to Shopping has been suggested! We have had to turn down shoppers on Monday due to some families shopping 2 times per week. We have only a certain amount of shopping time available with our volunteers. We need help and do not have additional volunteers to add more time to the shopping time. In the past few weeks we have had to turn multiple people down for shopping in the building as well as people have signed up for a box instead of being able to shop for themselves. We would like to limit shopping to 1 time per week. This will allow for members to shop for themselves with the hope of not having to turn folks away from being able to shop for themselves. 

We understand that some families enjoy shopping 2 times per week as we have different foods available on different days. We suggest that possibly you do one week on a Saturday and the next on a Monday. We would like to make this a POLICY during covid but it needs to go to a member vote. Please VOTE by Monday (November 16) at 5pm on this change: 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfmCcN0V5L6xV4LkEAEekVciQi45pgwdlc9RCsG_Y2hS3MkDw/viewform?usp=sf_link

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ADDITIONAL HELP NEEDED in the WEEK

Monday Winco Pickup at 9am

Wednesdays 10 - 12

Fridays 10 - 12

Please call Patty if you can help these days. 

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Shopping sign up for Saturday - 

We need help with CLEANUP! It has been suggested that if you are the last group to shop that you would be the cleanup crew. We are going to make this is a suggestion. We have changed the sign up so that we have the last few shoppers as CLEAN UP CREW. 

ARRIVE 10 minutes EARLY so we can get you checked in. If you are LATE, you will be offered a PREMADE BOX of dry good plus meat and dairy if we have it-this was discussed at the meeting last night (November 12th). You will not be able to shop for yourself in the building if you are late.  

YOU MUST SIGN UP BY 9AM. We close the sign up at 9AM

SIGN UP CLOSED

Personal Hygiene Request

Please help us come up with a list of needs for our members of personal hygiene items. Post your lists on the form provided: 

 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScIQaJcuIzF3Iuy-Jn8vByaiwns0tIhaZS5klXSv7_URcDclg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Monthly Meeting - Zoom LINK/Agenda/Treasurer Report

 Zoom LINK: 

If you log in through zoom, please follow the "Join Zoom Meeting" link. 

Phone call in:

If you want to call in via telephone, please see the bottom that says Dial by your location and follow directions. Please also note that you can mute yourself if you call in as unless you are talking, we would like you to be on mute. 

Topic: Philomath Gleaners

Time: Nov 12, 2020 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://pdx.zoom.us/j/84903796857

Meeting ID: 849 0379 6857

Telephone Commands:

*6 - Toggle mute/unmute

*9 - Raise hand

iPhone one tap mobile

+19712471195,,84903796857# US (Portland)

+12532158782,,84903796857# US (Tacoma)

PHONE CALL IN - Dial by your location

        +1 971 247 1195 US (Portland)

        +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)

        +1 602 753 0140 US (Phoenix)

        +1 720 928 9299 US (Denver)

Meeting ID: 849 0379 6857

Philomath Community Gleaners Monthly Meeting Agenda 

November 12, 2020 @ 6:30pm at Site 

• Agenda is prone to changes as needed. 

• Welcome - Patty

• PCS Report & Welcome – Jean G.  

• Approve meeting minutes from Feb (approved online), August (Approved Online), We did not have a September meeting, October (approved online) 

• Treasurer report for – vote needed (see link below) 

• Fundraising Report & Monday Report Closers – Elaine 

• Wood Coordinator Report –  

• Monthly service report for September 

Total number of members- 277   (including children)   Gleaner Households – 57  Adoptee households – 57  New households - 3  Volunteer hours recorded – 781

Adoptee Hours –    Hours and  mile (included above)-Not counted  Donated Miles – 1642  Wood glean hours – 3 none  Wood glean miles donated – none   Wood gathered/gleaned – none

Wood Distributed – 1 cord to adoptee  Total pounds distributed to members –  21,012  Waste for OCT  –  4306  Donation out –     3944 pounds other groups   1292 pounds to other gleaning groups

New Business 

• -Open Questions and Answers time 

• -Volunteer Hours – We need help 

• -Missing items  

• -United Way Grant Proposals - Proposed that we request funds for gloves, masks, hand sanitizer 

• -Reminder: You can only shop for adoptees. Gleaners can shop for themselves or pick up a premade bag. You should only shop for 1 person while you are shopping for yourself so you can still finish in 8 minutes. Any additional ADOPTEES need food for can sign up for premade bags.   

• -Policy was approved that we will only allow 1 vote per family.  

• -Cooler being Installed, Tents to be purchased – Update only 

• -Do we want to alter shopping limits per week? Shopping 1 time per week during COVID? On November 2nd we had to turn away a person as we did not have space on the schedule. We had 3 families who had shopped on Saturday. We need to consider limiting our shopping to 1 time per week. Either we limit it or we need to require the 8 hours of volunteer time for every family.  

• -We also have grants for Personal Hygiene items we could use? List was posted today.  

• -Nominations for Coordinator, Co-Coordinator, Secretary, Treasurer, Wood Coordinator happened and we asked all whom were nominated if they would serve our program. We have 5 members willing to take on the volunteer positions and each position has no opposition. The rule of Election by -Acclimation will apply. The following individuals are now your elected officers and will start on January 1, 2021. Coordinator: Patty Nobles, Co-Coordinator: Jessica Onstott, Secretary: Alicia Warren, Treasurer: Ann Morgan, Wood Coordinator: Tim Worl (Please vote to accept the Election by Acclimation) 

• -Large Scale for Weighing out 

• -Chain Saw 

• -Food Dehydrators for members to checkout and use 

 

 

Old Business- 

• Monday Winco – 9am 

• Wednesday – 10 am - 12pm 

• Monday Clean up help 2-4 ish 

• Saturday Help 3 – 4 ish 

• Friday 10 – 12  

Next monthly member meeting will be December 10  

Treasurer Report. 

Last months report was for what is "budgeted for 2020" for our program. We do have more funds available to our program. Alicia has created the spreadsheet below to make it easier to see where are funds are coming from and what we have available to spend specific to our program. 

Restricted Grant Fund = $4000.00 remaining in our Siletz grant funds.

$15,035.75 in our "Gleaner funds to help cover expenses like supplies, mileage, etc" 

$8643.19 remaining in our Board designated grant funds. This is the United Way funds that PCS received and gave all funds to the gleaners. We can use these funds on Groceries and Personal hygiene items.    

$2000 We are currently waiting for a check from Pacific Power but have a confirmed donation email from them. This grant was written for groceries only. 

To the best of my knowledge this is correct. It may not be perfect and has not been audited as this is our gleaner funds. PCS audits our books, this is just our "copy".