You can help ...

Thanks to an article on McHenry County Blog, I learned of this food-raising event in Crystal Lake to aid the people in Haiti.

In these days of instant news and of news becoming "old news" very quickly, it is, unfortunately, too easy to forget that on January 12, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. That's only three years ago. The earthquake killed 220,000. Think about that for a minute.

The population of McHenry County is about 309,000.

The earthquake wrecked the lives of hundreds of thousands more.

A food-packing event is planned for Sunday, August 4, starting at 9:30AM, at Hannah Beardsley Middle School in Crystal Lake. For information, visit http://www.grouprev.com/fumcstirred2serve

The goal is to pack 80,000 meals at a cost of $0.25/meal. You can donate through a link on that site.

Yes, we have problems right here in McHenry County. Don't ignore those. But this is a chance to help out people whose lives are likely to be impacted for a long, long time to come.