CAIN plans to use primarily reusable bags at the Choice Food Pantry. Many guests have been given bags and bring them back. However, we are still in need of many more. You can help us help our guests and our planet: collect, make or purchase reusable bags.

Collect: Organize your co-workers, neighbors, friends and classmates to donate any cloth/canvas bags that are no longer needed.

Make: hold a bag-making party (CAIN can provide a pattern)

Donate: funds to help CAIN purchase bags or purchase some yourself and bring to CAIN

We encourage all guests, volunteers, donors and residents to start today by answering the question "paper or plastic?" by saying "No thank you!" Bring your own!

• Sewing Skills and Group Organizing: Organization skill and a desire to help people and our planet! By pledging to use only reusable bags whenever and wherever we shop, we will be doing our part for our precious Earth that will make a difference every day and for a lifetime. "Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children." (Native American Proverb)