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Eva Davis, on Community's Response to 'Stuff the Truck' Drive

Canton Public Library director Eva Davis offers gratitude for the community's response to the recent 'Stuff the Truck' drive for Detroit Area Diaper Bank.

Editor's note: If you'd like to express an opinion, email Canton Patch editor Peg McNichol at peg.mcnichol@patch.com and put "Letter to the Editor" in the subject line. We wish to thank our community for the tremendous response to our diaper drive to support the Detroit Area Diaper Bank.  Over a two-day period, we received 31,022 diapers, which will be distributed to social services organizations to help families in need.  The giving spirit of the Canton community has been overwhelming but not surprising. In May, our supply drive to benefit the Michigan Military Moms resulted in over 200 boxes of supplies being shipped to US troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Canton Public Library is indebted to Fat Chef in a Little Coat …

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Good Morning, Canton! ~ Marion Rozum

MSA Delivery Service co-owner Marion Rozum offers a few suggestions for this giving season.

Marion Rozum is one of those people who seems to be at every charity event in Canton Township. So it was no surprise to learn that the company she and her family own, MSA Delivery Service, recently helped the Detroit Area Diaper Bank take delivery on 250,000 diapers donated by Huggies, which sponsors the newly created National Diaper Bank. MSA is always there to help Marybeth Levine and the Detroit Area Diaper Bank handle large donations, but that's not all the Rozum family supports in Canton. Marion Rozum used her time today to promote the Canton Goodfellows; Salvation Army; Camp A.B.L.E.; and the Miracle League of Plymouth. As she said between takes, "if you can't give a lot, give a little. Every bit helps!" If you'd like to record a …

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Debra Madonna

9:38 am on Sunday, December 11, 2011

The Miracle League of Plymouth wants to thank Marion and her family for their generous support of children and families and giving "every child a chance to play baseball   more ›

Good Morning, Canton! ~ Marybeth Levine and Eva Davis

Canton Public Library's 'Stuff the Truck' drive draws more than 30,000 donations for Detroit Area Diaper Bank.

You'd think Mother Nature would have been less daunting to the volunteers on duty at Canton Public Library during the annual two-day Stuff the Truck drive for Detroit Area Diaper Bank and the donors who streamed by. But instead of Tuesday's balmy weather, they were greeted with the sting of winter's leading edge. No matter. The warmth of the giving season prevailed, as Marybeth Levine, the diaper bank's founder, and library director Eva Davis attest in their greeting this morning. To the very last moments of the drive, at 9 p.m. Thursday, people were still delivering all kinds -- from newborn-size to adult --  of disposable diapers, totalling more than 30,000. Some also donated wipes and gas money, Levine said. Because state aid doesn't …

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Five Things You Need to Know, Nov. 16, 2011

Catch Macbeth, Stuff a Truck (with diapers for low-income families) and listen to Michigan Philharmonic's Three French Horns.

In keeping with the season of washing our hands, the Park Players — Plymouth-Canton Education Park's theatre students — will present Shakespeare's Macbeth. The curtain rises onthe Gloria Logan Auditorium at Salem High School, 46181 Joy Rd., at 7 p.m. Friday; the show repeats at 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday. Tickets cost $10. The big day is here: Visitors to Canton Public Library can help the Detroit Area Diaper Bank reach this year's goal of 200,000 diapers by Thanksgiving. This charity's service provides an essential hygiene item to low-income families with young children — or seniors who may otherwise not leave their homes. The library's Stuff the Truck effort is a key point in the diaper bank's year-round efforts to help others. Diapers of all…

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Five Things You Need to Know, Nov. 13, 2011

Stuff the Truck for Detroit Area Diaper Bank, catch a classical concert and remember, township offices are closed Monday.

The Michigan Philharmonic, with special guest composer Gabriela Lena Frank, is set to present Musica delas Americas at the Village Theater at Cherry Hill at 2 p.m. today. This concert showcases the works of Cuban master Ernesto Lecuona; Brazil's Heitor Villa Lobos and Mexico's Silvestre Revueltas as well as Argnetinian composer Alberto Ginastera. Tickets cost $25. Call 734-451-2112 for details. Canton Public Library, 1200 S. Canton Center Rd., again hosts its Stuff the Truck campaign for the Canton-based Detroit Area Diaper Ban on Wednesday and Thursday. You can help by providing donations of money or disposable diapers for children or adults. You have until midnight to enter Patch's Have a Little Faith contest. The prize: two tickets to …

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Five Things You Need to Know Oct. 12, 2011

Giving Hope meets, job hunt help and the kickoff time for Friday's Canton-Novi football game gets shifted.

WDIV morning news anchor Rhonda Walker will keynote Canton Community Foundation's Giving Hope Women's Giving Circle annual meeting, which starts at  6:30 tonight at the Village Theater at Cherry Hill, 50400 Cherry Hill Road. Walker will speak about women as philanthropy and the organization she created to help at-risk girls in Detroit. Admission is $10 and includes hors d'oeuvres and desserts. Marybeth Levine of Detroit Area Diaper Bank, Inc. is thrilled that Canton Public Library will once again host a "Stuff the Truck!" diaper drive, on Nov. 16 and 17. But the librarians need a few volunteers to lend a hand: Sign up online. If you are a Halloween enthusiast and love decorating your yard and house for the big trick-or-treat holiday -- …

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Five Things You Need to Know July 24, 2011

Chess competition, Canton Farmers Market and help a charity.

Detroit Area Diaper Bank — Canton resident Marybeth Levine's charity to provide diapers to babies and seniors in low-income families — is entered in Citgo's "Fueling Good" campaign. Citgo will give gas cards to 24 charities, based on which ones get the most votes. Supporters can vote here once daily until August 11. Canton Farmers Market is today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Preservation Park. Dietitian Lisa Soper is scheduled to show how to make fruit kabobs and Ryan Brake is set to play on the Bartlett-Travis porch. Chess lovers, head over to Canton Public Library, 1200 S. Canton Center Rd., from 1 to 5 and test your skills against other players. Forever After Productions' Camp Rock! has two shows today, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. at Village …

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Five Things You Need to Know June 14, 2011

It's Flag Day; Pepsi gives P-CEP band a fundraising shot the 2011 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and a grant for Detroit Area Diaper Bank.

One: The main item on today's Plymouth-Canton Community Schools' board agenda is the budget, which must be finalized by the end of this month. The board will present a Volunteer in Public Schools Extra Miler Award tonight. The meeting is at 7 p.m. today in the district offices of the E.J. McClendon Education Center, 454 S. Harvey St., Plymouth. Two: The Detroit Area Diaper Bank, Inc. has been selected as Monday's "Summer of Sharing" grant recipient by Community Financial Members Federal Credit Union, which donated $1,060 to the non-profit."This grant will enable us to procure more than 10,000 diapers for our smallest neighbors in need," the diaper bank's announcement on Facebook said. Three: The Canton Township board of trustees meeting …

'Light Bulb Moment' Inspired Canton Woman to Start Diaper Drives

Marybeth Levine is carrying on an effort that started in Arizona.

Few distractions deter Marybeth Levine from her goal of making sure anyone who needs a diaper has one. The Canton woman has been inspiring others to help in creative ways. In November, for example, Canton Public Library director Eva Davis volunteered to camp out for two days and one night in a donated truck for a "Stuff the Truck" diaper collection Nov. 17-18. The reward? More than 26,000 diapers. Levine's enthusiasm has carried her from the beginning of the nonprofit Detroit Area Diaper Bank's second annual collection campaign, which started in August, through a series of collection efforts. "The fall drive was huge," said Levine, the diaper bank's executive director. "We flew by our goal of 100,000, which sets the bar very high for next …

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