EYE GLASSES FOR THE NEEDY





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Providing Glasses in the US How the Program Operates

If you are approved for assistance by New Eyes or by one of our participating social service agencies, the process to receive glasses is as follows: Your agency rep will receive a blue and white voucher on your behalf. Do not order your glasses before receiving the voucher. You may take the voucher to any dispenser in your area as payment for your new eyeglasses. Make sure the optician is willing to provide your eyeglasses for the rates printed on the voucher. There are thousands of opticians around the United States who will readily accept a New Eyes voucher as payment for glasses. However, click here if you need assistance in locating a participating dispenser in your area. A New Eyes voucher typically covers only the cost of a basic pair of single or bifocal eyeglasses. New Eyes does not endorse the purchase of more costly glasses at a client's additional expense. The intent of our program is to help those most in need. Clients who have sufficient resources to supplement our voucher should not be eligible for our program. Do not pay the optician yourself. The dispenser will receive reimbursement directly from New Eyes. Make sure to use the voucher before the expiration date.

IMAGINE A WOMAN

Imagine a woman who believes it is right and good
she is a woman
A woman who honors her experience and tells her
stories
Who refuses to carry the sins of others within her body
and life
Imagine a woman who believes she is good
A Woman who trusts and respects herself.
Who listens to her needs and desire, and meets them
with tenderness and grace.
Imagine a woman who has acknowledged the past's
influence on the present. A woman who has walked
through her past.
Who has healed into the present.
Imagine a woman who authors her own life.
A woman who exerts, initiates, and moves on her own
behalf. Who refuses to surrender except to her truest
self and her wisest voice.
Imagine a woman who names her own gods.
A woman who imagines the divine in her image and
likeness.
Who designs her own spirituality and allows it to form
her daily life.
Imagine a woman in love with her own body.
A woman who believes her body is enough, just as it is.
Who celebrates the accumulation of her years and
wisdom.
Who refuses to use precious energy disguising the
changes in her body. And her life.
Imagine a woman who values the women in her life.
A woman who sits in circles of women.
Who is reminded of the truth about herself when she
forgets.
Imagine yourself as this woman.

AUTHOR UNKNOWN

YOUR LEGITIMATE RIGHTS

1. You have a right to need things from others.
2. You have a right to put yourself first sometimes..
3. You have a right to feel and express your emotions or your pain.
4. You have the right to be the final judge of your beliefs and accept them as legitimate.
5. You have the right to your opinions and convictions.
6. You have the right to your experience-even if it's different from that of other people.
7. You have a right to protest any treatment or criticism that feels bad to you.
8. You have a right to negotiate for change.
9. You have a right to ask for help, emotional support, or anything else you need (even though you may not always get it).
10. You have a right to say no; saying no doesn't make you bad or selfish.
11. You have a right not to justify yourself to others.
12. You have a right not to take responsibility for someone else's proble.
13. You have a right to choose not to respond to a situation.
14. You have a right, sometimes, to inconvenience or disapoint others.
Put the right that are most important or liberating to you on a file card, (I use sticky notes) and tape it someplace where you'll see it frequently, like your bathroom mirror, in order to remind yourself.

I can be disturbed but not despondent.
Angry but not desperate.
My driving passion is love!
I'm reading the greatest essay(Paul's treatise on love). 1st Corinthinas.Chapter 13 remains the greatest essay ever penned.
From:The Inspirational Study Bible By: Max Lucado

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Antiharrasment Document

Online Forms and eFiling

Online Interview Process District Court allows certain cases to be initiated online. You may complete the interview process online but you must appear in person to pay the required filing fees and receive a copy of your completed documents. If you do not appear within 72 hours, your petition will be deleted. After you complete the interview process, you will be given a confirmation number. This number allows you to check on the status of your petition. A clerk will review your responses and either accept or reject your document. A rejection may ask that you provide additional information. Or, a rejection may mean the Court does not have jurisdiction over your request.

Antiharassment Petitions The interview process for antiharassment petitions may be completed online. The interview takes approximately 1 hour. At the end of the interview, you must appear at the Criminal Division (CCB) to pay the $88 filing fee, receive a copy of your petition, and schedule your court appearance. Please see the Antiharassment Protection Orders section for additional information on hearing times and filing deadlines. You must appear at the Criminal Division (CCB) within 72 hours. If you do not appear within 72 hours, your petition will be deleted. Being harrased by downstairs neighbor. WTF?

LET IT GO!

"There are people who can walk away from you. And hear me when I tell you this!
When people can walk away from you: let them walk.
I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you.
I mean hang up the phone.When people can walk away from you let them walk.
Your destiny is never tied to anybody who left.

The Bible said that,
They went out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not of us, For had they been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us. -1 John 2:19

People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay..

And if they are not, and it doesn't mean that they are a bad person, it just means that their part in the story is over. And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over so that you don't keep trying to raise the dead. You've got to know when it's over.

Let me tell you something. I've got the gift of good-bye.
It's the tenth spiritual gift, I believe in good-bye. It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it.

Stop begging people to stay. Let them go!!

If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to ..LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to past hurts and pains ..LET IT GO!!!

If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and see your worth...LET IT GO!!!

If someone has angered you ... LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge . LET IT GO!!!

If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction . LET IT GO!!!

If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself and God is saying "take your hands off of it," then you need to... LET IT GO!!!

Let the past be the past. Forget the former things. God is doing a new thing in 2011!!LET IT GO! Get Right or get Left..Think about it and then LET IT GO!!

"Wise is the person who fortifies his life with the right friendships."
ALL THE GLORY, HONOR AND POWER BELONGS TO GOD!

FOOD BANKS OF PEIRCE COUNTY, WA

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Salvation Army Food Bank - Tacoma (253) 572-8452
1501 6th Ave, Tacoma 98405
Monday 1pm – 3pm;
Tuesday - Friday 10:30am - 3pm
Bus Line- 1
www.salvationarmytacoma.org

Food Connection (253) 383-5048
1323 South Yakima, Tacoma 98405
St. Leo’s Catholic Church
Wednesday & Friday 9:30am - 11am & 12pm – 3:30pm
Tuesday &Thursday 12pm – 3:30pm & 4:30pm - 6pm Saturday 9:30am - 11am & 12pm – 1:30pm
Bus Line- 45
www.foodconection.org

New Jerusalem Food Bank
(253) 572-6785 or (253) 376-3152
1101 South J street, Tacoma 98405
New Jerusalem Church
Tuesday 11am - 1pm
Saturday 11am - 2pm
Bus Line- 28
Limits- Once a month, emergencies case by case
Need to bring Id Card, and proof of residence
www.newjerusalemcogic.com/index.php?nid=89836&s=mn

Allen AME Food Pantry (253) 627-6855
1223 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Tacoma 98405
Allen A.M.E Church
Tuesday & Thursday 10am - 1pm
Bus Line- 57 / 26
Needs picture ID & a Blue Allen Food Bank ID Card
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98407-

Northwest F.I.S.H. Food Bank (253) 383-3164
2710 N. Madison, Tacoma 98405
Mason United Methodist Church
Wednesday & Saturday 12pm - 4pm
Bus Line- 16
Limits- Call for the weeks location
ID required.
www.masonchurch.org/UMC_Site/food_bank_page/fish_food_bank.htm
www.fishfoodbanks.org
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98408, 98409-

Resource Distribution Council - Lakewood
(253) 473-7669
3801 S Union Ave, Tacoma 98409
Friday
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Grace Place
And…
Saturday
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
6602 Ferdinand St S, Tacoma 98409
House of Prayer
www.therdc.org

Bounty Food Bank (253) 475-7098
5634 South Park, Tacoma 98408
Bethany United Methodist
Monday 9am - 11am
Bus Line- 56
Limits- Need current address with zip code

Bread Box F.I.S.H. Food Bank (253) 383-3164
5010 South "G" St., Tacoma 98408
Christian Fellowship Church
Monday 5pm - 7pm
Bus Line- 45
Need Drivers License or Picture ID

www.fishfoodbanks.org
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Talking Salary

Here's the advice job counselors used to hand out in the 1990s: Never bring up the question of pay. Write "negotiable" on any application that asks about salary expectations. Wait for the job offer before discussing salary in an interview.

Is this advice still valid?

Salary questions on applications and in interviews cause job seekers a lot of stress. The jobseeker wants to avoid losing a job due to unreasonably high expectations or selling themselves short. Employers just emerging from a big recession want to hire fully qualified workers at the lowest cost possibly. These givens have not changed.

What has changed is the availability of salary information via the Internet.

Jobseekers should never apply for a job without doing their homework. Search the web for salary information about a specific company, a job title or the living standard in an area. You can also get the information the old-fashioned way: by talking to someone who works at the company.

Applying for an entry-level job where the salary is stated, a jobseeker should always give the stated as his or her desired wage.

I used to advise job applicants to postpone forking over salary history for job listings that requested that information; now, I lean toward providing this info. Do some research to determine the likely salary range for the position. If your willingness to accept the going rate in the cover letter. Regarding salary expectations, find the likely range by networking or online research. Give a range with the expected salary as the midpoint.

-Bob Lankard CTW Features

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