GRATITUDE: Dave Newman State Farm Insurance Agency’s thanks for warm-clothing drive response

A big post-holidays thank you from Dave Newman State Farm Insurance Agency (3435 California SW; WSB sponsor) after this year’s generous response to their annual holiday-season warm-clothing drive:

Thank You, West Seattle Community!

Thank you, thank you, thank you to our incredible community for the overwhelming support of our recent clothing drive benefiting the West Seattle Food Bank‘s Helpline. Your generosity truly made a difference.

Thanks to your contributions, we were able to deliver four to five full loads of donations, including brand-new, unopened socks and underwear for both men and women, as well as thoughtfully donated hand-knit caps. These essential and heartfelt items will provide comfort, warmth, and dignity to those in need.

A special thank you to Roger Tanner for his help with loading and unloading donations. His support played an important role in making this effort a success.

We are deeply grateful to everyone who donated, helped, or supported this drive in any way. This experience was a powerful reminder of how much people care about one another and the strength of our local community.

We are proud to support the West Seattle Food Bank’s Helpline and thankful to be part of a community that truly shows up for its neighbors.

Robbin January 9, 2026 (10:12 am)

THANK YOU DAVE!!! This annual drive is so vital to our Clothesline and the shoppers it serves. We want to thank everyone who visited Dave Newman State Farm Insurance to drop off clothing!Dave’s team delivers the clothes to us throughout the drive – which means coats and warm clothing is distributed to those who need it within days of being donated. It is a huge impact for our neighbors that when the temperature dips, they can count on West Seattle Food Bank’s Clothesline to provide some extra warmth. We can only do this work because of the support of this community, and what an amazing community it is – thank you! – Robbin, WSFB

Robbin January 9, 2026 (11:14 am)

P.S. To our generous community friends who are doing January closet cleaning – we’d love it if you could hang on to the items until February when we have the Clothesline all ready to be re-opened. THANK YOU everyone for all your support!