2 items from Thriftway: Egg-hunt pix, plus a chance to help

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Those are some of the folks who, as we showed you last Saturday, thronged West Seattle Thriftway in Morgan Junction exactly a week ago for its annual kids’ egg hunt. Thriftway has just posted dozens of its own pix online and is inviting families who participated to come have a look and send them a note if you want a copy (find the Easter pix here). In the same e-mail, Thriftway also asked us to share news of a benefit barbecue coming up next Saturday (4/5): Thriftway employee Julie Lynch is battling breast cancer — a cause that the Thriftway team has long been active in (see this page) — and the store’s going to cook up burgers next Saturday (April 5) to offer a burger/chips/soda lunch for $7, all proceeds to Julie and her family. (In case you lose track of that event or anything else going on in West Seattle, just keep a daily eye on our Events list page, updated multiple times daily.)

cmc March 29, 2008 (10:43 am)

Thanks for letting us know about the pics from the easter egg hunt! What an incredible hunt Thriftway puts on for its community! Thank you.

miws March 29, 2008 (5:56 pm)

I’m glad to see there’s going to be a benefit for Julie. Unfortunately, I work Saturdays and the event will likely be over by the time I could make it.

I only found out about Julie’s situatuion today, from one of my Coworkers who also works at Thriftway. I was so surprised, I didn’t think to ask if there was something customers could contribute to, even if it was signing a banner or something.

I’ll be going over there tomorrow morning, so will check then (which is what I had planned to do anyway) to see if there’s an alternate way to help Julie, and/or let her know we are thinking of her. I’ll report back on this thread if I find out anything significant, in case others might not be able to make the Saturday event, and may still want to help out.

Julie is one of my favorites there, I am sending all my best wishes to her in fighting this, and to her family as well.

Mike

miws March 30, 2008 (8:04 am)

Okay, I was just over at Thriftway, and for those that may not be able to make it to the Benefit on Saturday, they are taking donations for Julie’s fund at the Customer Service Desk.

Mike

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