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4 | SUN LAKES LIFESTYLES | DECEMBER 2016 | When you drove through the Sun Lakes Country Club entrance for the first time, you became a very special person. You became a generous and caring person with a regard for your neighbors and the greater San Gorgonio Pass Area. Years ago, the District Delegate Assembly adopted two programs that affected the people of the city of Banning. The first program was the Fill the Cupboard program for the benefit of the Banning Senior Center. The city operates this center to assist the needy seniors in our community. Each district has a month designated for them to donate food stuffs for the seniors. Because of the difficulty of selecting the foods that the city can accept, many districts donate funds whereby the city then purchases the food. The second program is the Holiday Wish Program. Through an application process, the City of Banning selects some 50 families for assistance at Christmas time. Usually each district picks two or more families to sponsor. The application form lists the family members, their ages, sizes and requests. The district then goes shopping for clothes and toys for the children and a gift or two for the household. Where does all this money come from to help our neighbors in the city of Banning? FROM YOU! You are the good neighbors, the Sun Lakers helping your neighbors in the city of Banning. Your District Delegate monitors the program and with their staff they do all of the work to a successful conclusion. Your district is now collecting for the Wish Program to make a wonderful Christmas for some family. Please donate what you can to put smiles on the faces of the little children. Besides these programs, each day hundreds of Sun Lakers go out into the Pass Area communities to donate their time and money to assist others. They go to the schools, libraries, charities, centers and other locations to help where they can for the benefit of others. Finally, each year we celebrate Charity Week. It is a week of events generating funds. After over 20 years, Sun Lakers have donated more than a million and a quarter dollars to the Pass Area charities. You should be proud to live at Sun Lakes Country Club and be part of the wonderful contribution we make to the well-being of the Pass Area. MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY HANUKKAH! HAPPY KWANZAA! From the District Delegates and their alternates! DELEGATE ASSEMBLY REPORT Joe Formino, Chairman, District Delegate Assembly