Walk to End Hunger with "Heart & Sole"
RED BANK, NJ - Stepping out to the rhythm of "Left Foot, Right Foot, Left Foot, Right 2,000 happy feet, what a sight!" It was a beautiful bright and sunny day for over 1,000 volunteers and walkers of all ages, many wearing our signature, black T-Shirts with a Big Heart & Sole on the front as they stepped out for CROP Walk #31. Walkers donated over 11,000 lbs of food for a second year including 3,000 lbs from RCDS. Students from CBA counted and sorted the food for distribution while walkers headed out to warm-ups from Personal Trainer Nicole Howard who got them ready for the task - to walk 5 miles through Little Silver, Fair Haven and Red Bank to help hungry neighbors here in Monmouth County and through partners in 80 countries the walkers helped the most vulnerable, poorest communities in the world.
The 5 mile afternoon walk began and ended at Red Bank Regional High School, the Walk Host for over 3 decades. Fun entertainment kept the crowd smiling. Shortstop the Clown leading a conga line and Sponge Bob from Chubby Penguin Parties who said "I'm ready! Are you ready to feed the hungry?" and music from John Limansky J&J Music. Red Bank Regional Key Club sponsored our 2nd PHOTO OP for CROP for groups to gather for a photo to commemorate and remember the day of community service. Brookdale Community College softball athletes along with coach Bo took up the LUG a JUG Brigade for a 2nd year walking the entire route carrying 8 lb. gallon jugs of water. Local Partners Aslan Youth Ministries and Family Promise set up a refugee tent display and a "cardboard box home" to educate about displaced people and how they survive. Walkers were treated to Delicious Orchards and Sickles Market apples and Super Foodtown ice cream after the long walk. Everything added to the overall feeling of satisfaction from sharing this special day with family, friends, and participants of all ages from all kinds of groups in the Red Bank Area communities.
Apple's miracle on 4th St
I was at the Apple Store on 4th Street in Berkeley the day it opened this past August. I’m glad I decided to go. Coming just a few weeks before Steve Jobs’ death, that Store on that day represents about as perfect a tribute to Steve Jobs as I can imagine.
I was handed a box as I walked through the Store’s door. The box contained the ’4th Street’ variation of the t-shirts that Apple hands out to first-arriving customers at all of its Store openings.
The sparsely-designed black shirt was pretty much what I expected. What impressed me much more was the box that the shirt came in. It was a work of art – designed with Apple’s laser-like focus on simplicity and elegance.
The box’s exterior is all white. A small piece of silver tape, with an Apple logo, is the only identifying mark. The box doesn’t exactly ‘open.’ Rather, like a Japanese origami, it unfolds to reveal its silver interior. When fully expanded, you see a nearly symmetrical single piece of construction with a small white Apple logo at its centre. Push on the creases and the box almost automatically folds back into place. You can’t help but smile when you hold it.
If you want to know what a Microsoft store looks like, picture an Apple store and then put the staff in bright, colored T-shirts. And there's good reason to imitate Apple. The night Steve Jobs died, I swung by an Apple store in Palo Alto.
The box contained the '4th Street' variation of the t-shirts that Apple hands out to first-arriving customers at all of its Store openings. The sparsely-designed black shirt was pretty much what I expected. What impressed me much more was the box that
