My hope is that people remember to donate to Variety, and to realize that at any given time, something can happen in your own family and suddenly you might need them.

We would like people to know that we have lots of Variety coin tins and posters that they can use in their places of work, business, church, and other community venues. We will gladly deliver the tins/posters to them and pick them up prior to ninth of February, so that they can be tallied prior to the Variety telethon on Feb. 11 and 12.

It was a volunteer position and that was her whole life, it would take someone who had that time to commit (to replace her), or it would take a lot of different people getting together who have little bits of time that could work together, because it was done so hugely. That made me think that it's important for people to step up and try to do what they can do for Variety to continue that, and to bring it into focus so the contributions continue to keep coming in.

She left a big huge void in the community, so I'm concerned that there won't end up being the huge donations from the community, and we've always been known as the community with a heart.

People don't realize the amount of poisons that come off the end of a cigarette.

We are again pleased to have such a wonderful variety of food donations for this event. These establishments donate their food, time and effort and we couldn't do this without their fabulous support. We're hoping to add a few more surprises in the coming weeks.