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	<title>The Gift Exchange &#187; In the Community</title>
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		<title>Celebrate Pink</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here in the Pacific Northwest, it&#8217;s a very colorful month filled with every shade of red, orange and brown. You can&#8217;t help but think of those bright fall colors when you think of October. But have you heard? Pink is the color of October.
Everyone knows that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. I have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think Pink</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I had the awesome opportunity to join some of my co-workers on the Susan G. Komen Race For the Cure in Portland, Oregon and I can’t begin to describe to you the impact that such an event had on me. I was inspired, touched, saddened, elated and above all honored, to be among the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Race for the Cure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luba</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gift Ideas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently GiftTree participated in one of the most popular events here in the Northwest, The Race for the Cure. I&#8217;m a person that is not as involved in the community as I would like to be so when I received the e-mail asking if I would like to participate, I quickly took the opportunity to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The A B C’s of Going Green</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bike]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gifttree.com/gifts-blog/?p=717</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A. Adopt something. An animal, a street, a neighborhood. There’s almost no limit to the number of    environmental causes you can join!
B. Buy products made of recycled materials.
C. Change water cups around office cooler to 100% Bio-compostable cups, like we did here at GiftTree.
D. Don’t buy aerosols! They can’t be recycled and most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GiftTree Supports Local Walk &amp; Knock for Food Banks this Holiday Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Blogger: Amy H.
For 23 years, the Walk &#38; Knock Food Drive in Clark County, Washington has been bringing the community together and providing aid to food banks in the Vancouver area. With the help of thousands of volunteers, people go walking and knocking on doors to collect donations of non-perishable foods, supplies and money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talk Like a Pirate Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently today is Talk Like a Pirate Day. Who knew? Sports fans all over the world. Word is, Talk Like a Pirate Day was born when a racquetball injury caused the injured to cry out with an “Arrrr!” So, if you&#8217;ve ever had an inkling to talk like a pirate, here is your chance, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Sure to Get a Cone with That Ice Cream!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[On-line banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Re-usable containers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always looking for ways to Go Green, and to encourage my family to do the same. Here&#8217;s a few things I came across that I thought were fun and easy to do!
-When going out for ice cream, get a cone rather than a bowl.  That way you&#8217;re eating your utensils instead of throwing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Green for Going Back to School</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gifttree.com/gifts-blog/?p=584</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For those with kids in school, each year you have to go buy school supplies. My son is still in elementary school and at the end of each school year he brings back left over supplies that the teacher divides up between students. Which means we have a ton of crayons, colored pencils, glue sticks, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Camp Fire Fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the Community]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wo-He-Lo (That’s the Camp Fire Greeting and is from the beginning of the words Work, Health, Love)
We just finished creating over 40 gifts for the Camp Fire USA “Blue Jeans and BBQ” auction which is to be held at Camp Namanu on August 2nd. We had great fun taking all the donated gifts and putting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Use a Latte Paper Cups!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a native of Seattle, WA and still living in the great Northwest, I am a regular at my neighborhood Starbucks. My drink of choice is a grande x-tra hot nf latte, or an iced nf latte if it&#8217;s a hot day. Unless of course I&#8217;m getting coffee for people at work, then it&#8217;s much [...]]]></description>
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