What strategy do we use to get insurance companies out of the health care business and provide health care for all? Chris Lindberg will speak on this topic, Wednesday, March 1 2006 at 7:00 P.M. at the Olympia Free School - 610 Columbia Street (near Columbia and Legion).

Chris is the coordinator of United for National Health Care in Bellingham, Washington. She will address the health care sub-group of Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace.

Further information may be obtained from Gar Lipow at 360-943-1529.

Join us for an evening of music of all kinds performed on the toy piano. This event is a benefit for Olympia Copwatch, a local organization dedicated to ensuring police accountability in Olympia, and Works In Progress, a free volunteer operated progressive community newspaper based in Olympia. Admission to and participation in the event are free. You can support Olympia Copwatch and Works In Progress by bidding on one of the pianos in the toy piano auction. Musicians are still wanted for this event as well. Please visit toypiano.org/recital for details.

America's Second Harvest is helping to more than 25 million people, an 8 percent increase over 2001.

By Alexandra Marks

NEW YORK As the economy has steadily grown over the past four years, so too has the number of Americans going hungry.

America's Second Harvest, the nation's largest charitable food distribution network, is now providing help to more than 25 million people, an 8 percent increase over 2001, the last time the organization did a major survey of its more than 200 food banks in all 50 states.

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