Boxes of Fruit

FRUIT LIST
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PEACHES............Peaches will begin Wednesday, August 19th and continue

EVERY Wednesday through October 7th.
A 32 pound box is 27.00

TOMATOES..........Tomatoes will begin Wednesday, August 19th and continue
EVERY Wednesday through October 7th
A 24 pound box is 20.00

RASPBERRIES.....Raspberries will begin August 19th and continue
EVERY Wednesday through the end of September.
An 8 pound flat is 28.00

BLACKBERRIES...Blackberries will begin August 19th and continue
EVERY Wednesday through the end September.
An 8 pound flat is 28.00

PEARS................... Pears will begin September 9th and continue
EVERY Wednesday for a few shipments.
A 38 pound box is 28.00

FALL APPLES........Fall Apples will arrive October 28th, a few days before
Halloween. (ONE SHIPMENT)
Varieties available are Granny Smith, Rome, Jonathan, Fuji,
Red Delicious, and Golden Delicious
A 42 pound box is 26.00

YOU CAN ORDER BY PHONE (480 844-9953) OR EMAIL.. PLEASE INCUDE YOUR NAME AND PHONE NUMBER WITH YOUR ORDER. Please be specific on the fruit and the quantity you would like. If you are coming several times for pick up, let me know that also. I will do my best!

FRUIT PICK UP.................I will have enough fruit to accommodate you throughout the season. Because of the fruit, I have grown to love so many of you. I so look forward to seeing you each year. Thank you for your kindness and friendship.

I wish I could but, I AM NO LONGER ABLE TO HOLD BOXES. SORRY! FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE COMING FROM LONG DISTANCES, (White Mountains, Cottonwood, Tucson, Snowflake, Taylor, Glendale, and Prescott) PLEASE CALL ME SO I CAN MAKE ARRANGEMENTS FOR YOUR PICKUP. THE TRUCK SHOULD ARRIVE EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNINGS.AT 7:00 AM. PLEASE CALL FIRST BEFORE YOU COME, TO MAKE SURE THE TRUCK IS UNLOADED. IF AT ALL POSSIBLE, PLEASE CARPOOL OR PICK UP FOR A FRIEND TO LESSEN THE TRAFFIC AND CONGESSION.

CLOTHING AND SHOE COLLECTION FOR MESA SCHOOL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES IN NEED.............If you are cleaning out your closets, I would so appreciate any contributions of unneeded clothing, shoes and accessories for Mesa school children and their families. You can drop them off any time or when you pick up the fruit. Together we can make a difference.

Thanks a bunch!

Barbie Van Cott
480 844-9953

Sun Oven Demonstration

I am excited to let you all know that the guy from Sun Oven
International in Chicago will be coming to Arizona in August and will
come and give our ward a demonstration on how to use the ovens!

Date: August 22, 2009

Time: 10 a.m.

Where: To be determined

To reserve your spot, please
email me at myrnasheppard@cox.net

Thanks,
Myrna

Wendy Dewitt Enrichment

For those of you who couldn't make it to Enrichment, Wendy counseled us--among other things--that every prophecy will be fulfilled, and it may very well be during our lifetime. She said too that it is better to be prepared and not need it than to need it and not be prepared! She actually warned us that our families could starve if worse comes to worse, and especially after Pres. Monson's talk on Sunday about that poor lady whose children all starved on her trek to safety, Wendy's words really resonated with me!

Link to Wendy's Blog

Link to Wendy's Booklet

Link to Wendy's presentation on You Tube

Solar Ovens, Apple Boxes, Water Jugs ETC.

PROVIDENT LIVING UPDATE:

Hey Sisters,
--The message below is an email that has been circulated that references the need for our 3-month supply, and specifically documents some recent timely advice given by Dr. Susan Puls, the LDS doctor who has been assigned by the Church to research bird flu pandemic information. No one really knows if the scenario described here will actually happen, but it does make you stop and think about emergency preparedness.

Hopefully we all have our 90-day supply, but if not, there is an excellent step-by-step plan to achieve this, on iwillprepare.com. In addition, you can research further by checking out providentliving.org on the Church web site. We all need to remember that "If ye are prepared, ye shall not fear." (D&C 38:30)

Constellation Ward emergency preparedness info and events:

--If you missed the March focus group on "Water Preparedness," the presentation is on iwillprepare.com, and you can order the platforms for the barrels by sending an email to Jon at iwillprepare@gmail.com. For $35, the platforms hold two barrels each, and hose bibs are included in the price. Jon's dad, Will Sherman, will install the hose bibs in your barrels when you pick up the platform. (Eric Cassinat tells me that you can hardly make them for that price.)

--Elyssa Bent is ordering the big 55 gal. water barrels (used but sanitized), so contact her if you would like to purchase them at the extremely reasonable price of $17.50 each. (phone: 503-1575; email: d_e_bent@yahoo.com)

--Also, I have attached a flyer (here is a link ) from the solar oven manufacturer that lists prices and items available, so if you didn't get a chance to look them over today during the Church meetings and would like to order them, please let me know. If you want the oven and/or other items, contact me some time this week to put in your order. (If we can find someone in the ward who has a dock, the shipping costs might even be less.) Even if you signed up for it today, please call or send an email to let me know specifically what you want, including the solar oven itself and any of the pans, cookbooks, etc.

--We are planning to make apple box ovens also, since they are fueled by charcoal, and if there is little to no sun during the day or you need to cook without electricity at night, it is a backup for the solar oven. We will have a focus group on Thurs., April 9th to make these apple box ovens, and I will need to know if you want to make one so that I can get the stuff for everyone ahead of time. I'll let you know next week how much it will cost to make it. ( The costs for the basics will not be much.) I know you'll all be glad to hear that Jon Sherman from iwillprepare.com will be coming to show us how to make them! More info to come. . .

Okay, so please let me know if you want to buy the solar oven and/or other stuff on the Sun Ovens price sheet, and if you want to make the apple box oven, please get back to me on that too.
--Contact me at myrnasheppard@cox.net, or 892 2290, or 600 0175 (Let phone ring for a long time and then leave message.)

PLEASE READ:

Subject: FW: Important Pandemic Preparation
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 19:37:49 -0700

About a month ago a seminar was put on by Dr. Susan Puls, who is a cardiologist appointed by the First Presidency of the Church as the head of the church's pandemic committee. She said she was not an expert on pandemics as this was not her speciality, but in the two years she's been in her position, is fast becoming one. She now works for the church on a full-time basis working on planning for the pandemic and trying to get the word out to as many church members as possible. (There were about 1400 people at the Saturday all-day seminar.)

In her capacity, she works with the governor's pandemic committee and the federal pandemic planning agency. She also said a pandemic is coming -- not 'maybe'-- but is DEFINITELY coming. She says the pandemic is expected within the next two years but she personally believes it will be 'sooner rather than later.' The various groups (CDC, WHO, etc..) do not know what the pandemic will be but first among their list of suspects is the avian bird flu. It's only one mutation away from being easily transmitted from birds to humans and from human to human.

She said the World Health Organization expects 40% of the world population to become sick. Of those who become sick, they expect 50% will die. If you do the math - there are over 6 billion people on the earth today - that puts the death rate at over 1.4 billion people - and she says these deaths will happen over only a 3 to 4 month period of time.

Dr. Puls related that when the pandemic hits the US , mandatory quarantines of all infected and NON-INFECTED peoples will occur within the first 48 hours. People must not leave their homes, even to go to the store, etc., for 3 or 4 months!

Only emergency personnel (Dr's, nurses, firemen, police, national guardsmen, etc..) will be allowed to leave their homes. This quarantine will last during the duration of the 'pandemic cycle' which will last approximately three months.

Her main point was that everyone will need a MINIMUM of 3 months supply of food at home as the governments of the world will be overwhelmed within the first week and cannot be counted on to provide food, medical help, etc. She only briefly spoke on the 'social disruption' that will occur. . .

This isn't to scare anyone - just to provide a 'heads up' as 'to be forewarned is to be forearmed'.

Pandemic Planning under Home and Family Preparedness on the Church web site:.
> http://providentliving.org/content/display/0,11666,8041-1-4414-1,00..html < http://providentliving.org/content/display/0,11666,8041-1-4414-1,00..html > < http://providentliving.org/content/display/0,11666,8041-1-4414-1,00..html >

The government also has a website:
> http://www.pandemicflugov/plan/tab3.html < http://www.pandemicflugov/plan/tab3.html > < http://www.pandemicflugov/plan/tab3.html >
In the Church's new pamphlets on food storage, they recommend building your supply up to a three months supply.
As you can see in the article, Dr. Puls states that everyone will need a minimum of three months supply of food at home.

April Enrichment

Theme: It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark

Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm
Where: The Church
Guest Speaker: Wendy Dewitt (Motivational year supply specialist)

Food Storage Focus Group

Thanks to all of you who attended last night's focus group with Jon

Sherman from iwillprepare.com! We had a great turnout, and appreciated

so many of the brothers who came as well. We found out many things

about being prepared for emergencies both big and small, and I have some

follow-up info to share with you.

Jon told me afterwards about his source of solar ovens, which is at

least $50 cheaper than anywhere else, but I need at minimum of 5 orders

to get them at that price (about $210), so please let me know if you are

interested. He said that the solar oven is the best when the sun's out,

but that we also should have something else like the apple box oven he

showed us last night. So, I'm considering having another focus group to

make the apple box ovens if some of you are interested. Please get back

to me and let me know if you would like to do that at our Provident

Living focus group in April (Apr. 9th).

As a follow-up to Jon's info about building the water barrel platforms,

he told us that his dad (Will Sherman) will build them for only $35

apiece, which includes two hose bibs. Eric Cassinat tells me that we

can hardly make them ourselves for that price, so if you are interested,

you can send a message to Jon at iwillprepare@gmail.com.

Also, Jon will be teaching a workshop on Thurs., March 26 at 7 pm, on

the topic of dry pack canning, bread making, and other uses for wheat.

It will be at the Higley Stake Center on Recker Rd., south of Warner, so

it really is just right around the corner!

Okay so I hope that you can use some or all of this info. (You can go

to iwillprepare.com to get much of the Preparedness 101 and the water

workshop that were presented to us last night.)

Please let me know other topics we can cover to meet your preparedness

needs!

--Myrna Sheppard

Cannery Information

Here is the handout from Elyssa Bent's preparedness class.

Cannery information