As the year 2012 comes to an end, the Black Diamond Community Center has a food bank full of food to feed the hungry; warm coats and blankets to take away the winter chill; and activities for seniors, youth and community groups that keep us healthy.  All this is made possible with the help of so many people, businesses, service groups and churches, and all of you who just stop by and drop off food and clothes.

Sponsors of our 2012 Dinner Auction:  Mutual of Enumclaw Insurance Company, YarrowBay Group, Puget Sound Energy, a special thank you.

Contributing Businesses:  Argosy Cruises, Bill Speidel’s Underground Tour, Boeing Museum of Flight, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Children’s Museum of Seattle, Clipper Vacations, Continental Mills, Fifth Avenue Theatre, Microsoft, Nordic Heritage Museum, Northwest Outdoor Center, Ride the Ducks of Seattle, Rivers Incorporated, Seattle Aquarium, Seattle Symphony, Seattle Theatre Group, Woodland Park Zoo, Zumiez Foundation.

Acceptiva, Broadway Center for the Performing Arts, Children’s Museum of Tacoma, Cougar Mountain Zoo, Emerald Downs, Krain Corner Restaurant, Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad, Network Support for Small Business, Platt Electric, Rottles Clothing & Shoes, Royal Arch Park, Washington State Historical Society, Wolf Haven International.

Ace Cleaners, Buds and Blooms, Cenex Harvest States and Ryan, Daniel Ross Salon & Skin Care, Elephant Car Wash, Fajita-Z’s, Grace Cleaners, Hawthorn Tree Massage & Emu Ranch, Janet’s Shear Genius, Johnson’s Home & Garden Do-It Center, Kinetic Sports & Physical Therapy, Maple Valley Safeway, MD Coté Medical Laser & Spa, Starbucks at Four Corners, Starbucks in Covington, TRM Wood Products, Weatherly Inn.

Black Diamond Businesses: Black Diamond Bakery & Restaurant, Black Diamond Jazzercise, Black Diamond Pizza & Deli, Cenex Convenience Store and Betty, CJ’s Bakery, Columbia Bank, Dazzled Dame, Finally Found Books, Mama Passarelli’s, Mary Kay and Karin Ambur, Oshio 2 Teriyaki & Burger, Palmer Coking Coal Company, Rooter’s at Lake Sawyer, Smokehouse & More, The Loft Salon & Spa, Yancy T Sipes DDS PS.

Local Service Organizations:  Maple Valley Black Diamond Rotary, Black Diamond Maple Valley Kiwanis, Black Diamond Historical Society, Black Diamond Police Department and Chief Jamey Kiblinger, King County Mountain View Fire District 44, Cedar River Bowmen, Friends of the Black Diamond Library, Lake Sawyer Community Club, Pythian Sisters, Ravensdale Sewing Club, Sons of Italy Lodge 1809, TOPS of Black Diamond #1010, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5052.

Churches who Give: St. Barbara’s Catholic Church, Circle of Joy and Knights of Columbus, Lake Sawyer Christian Church, LSCC Sister Chicks Bible Study, Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, Chapel Wood Baptist Church.

Local Schools: Black Diamond Elementary, Jenna Locker, Sawyer Woods Elementary, Thunder Mountain Middle School, Enumclaw High School Leadership Class.

The Staff at the Black Diamond Community Center, Executive Director Cheryl Hanson, Leslie Johnson, Helen Bittner, Beth Gunderson, Brenda Hanson, and Irene Vaughn; and our Board of Directors, President Keith Watson, Vice President Dorothy Botts, Treasurer Elsie Parkin, Secretary Laura Borg, Directors Marlene Allen, Howard Botts, Kari Hammett-Caster, Jude Irish, Mayor Rebecca Olness, and Judy Watson, all want to say THANK YOU and Happy New Year.  See you soon… please stop by our Center and see all the good you do for so many.