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	<title>Get Out And Give Back ... by Jane Hess Collins</title>
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		<title>Lenore</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran into Lenore last week on my way to do my Wednesday service work at our church.  Lenore was with a younger guy, and she was walking away from the church entrance, not toward it.  Knowing that Lenore normally shows up on Wednesdays to get food and some help with her bills, I asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tell me your story!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[apt-letter-of-intent.pdf
Questions for Get Out and Give Backget-out-and-give-back-questions.doc
I&#8217;m looking for people to be nominated as a possible person to be profiled on the &#8220;Get Out and Give Back&#8221; television show.  (If you are unfamiliar with this show, you can view the demo here):
http://65.109.45.213/portfolio.asp?itemId=100
This show has been accepted by American Public Television (APT) for national distribution on public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Thanks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just come back home after spending a few hours at a nursing home as part of the Holiday Project (www.holidayproject.org).  According to the team lead, 60% of people in nursing home never get visitors, even over the holidays.  So, the Holiday Project lines up volunteers to visit people in nursing homes during Thanksgiving, Christmas, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smoking Gun</title>
		<link>http://getoutandgiveback.com/2009/11/25/smoking-gun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m as anti-smoking as any non-smoker.  So it was a surprise when I found myself tempted to buy a pack of cigarettes for someone Monday afternoon.  Better explain:  As I waited at the Rhode Island platform to catch the Red Line, and old guy in an old-fashioned, manual wheelchair asked me for some change for lunch.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$3.99</title>
		<link>http://getoutandgiveback.com/2009/11/19/399/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I prepare to move the &#8220;Get Out and Give Back&#8221; blog and newspaper column to a bigger writing/speaking/coaching venue, I realized that I&#8217;d been spending too much time in the last few months holed up developing the business and not enough time contributing and serving.  So, yesterday (Wednesday) I pried my fingers off of my laptop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Perfect Veterans&#8217; Day</title>
		<link>http://getoutandgiveback.com/2009/11/11/the-perfect-veterans-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What an amazing way to spend Veterans&#8217; Day!  My husband and I were invited to attend the Mission Serve kickoff event at George Washington University.  Part of the ServeNation coalition, Mission Serve is the civilian-military initiative comprised of 33 partnerships (mostly non-profits and NGOs) committed to serve the men and women of the armed forces, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Katrina (by guest writer Tommy Moore)</title>
		<link>http://getoutandgiveback.com/2009/11/03/katrina-by-guest-writer-tommy-moore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was my second trip to the area in as many months.
My first was with a group of Furman University students who are members of an on campus United Methodist group called Wesley Fellowship. It was their spring break and the second trip to the area for many in the group. Their choice had been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, America</title>
		<link>http://getoutandgiveback.com/2009/07/09/happy-birthday-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[     July, I think, is our most patriotic month. Maybe it’s the explosion of fireworks on the fourth day, or that all of America turns red, white and blue, or that last weekend my husband and I were lucky enough to see Tiger Woods honor military veterans throughout the week as he played and won the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Took a Village</title>
		<link>http://getoutandgiveback.com/2009/06/11/it-took-a-village/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Collins</dc:creator>
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      Earlier this month it was my honor to deliver the commencement address at my alma mater high school in Bellefontaine, Ohio. There’s always something safe about going home. Mary Rutan Park still has its four tennis courts and the pool is still open from Memorial Day to Labor Day. 
     
      As I encouraged Bellefontaine’s 202 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Percent</title>
		<link>http://getoutandgiveback.com/2009/05/08/one-percent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 21:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[        A long time ago my dad decided to give one percent of the gross sales from his lumberyard business to the poorest village in the western hemisphere. Through a little research he was partnered with a village outside Port-au-Prince, Haiti. For years he sent a check to a French nun down there and in [...]]]></description>
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