BWC focuses on 'Love on Your Back'

BONSALL – Each year the Bonsall Woman's Club president chooses a local charity to focus on. This year, current BWC President Arlene Rutherford chose to join in with a group of retired teachers and other neighborhood volunteers to support a program they started called "Love on Your Back," which is in conjunction with the Bonsall Unified School District.

The Love on Your Back program sends a backpack full of food home with each of the participating students each weekend. During the school week, these low-income and/or family-crisis students rely on reduced cost or free school breakfast and lunch as their primary source of nutrition.

The backpacks are filled with nutritious foods that these children are so desperately missing in their weekend diets.

A nurse in the Bonsall Unified School District said, "These kids need food."

Carol Wood said, "Children can't learn when they are hungry."

Anyone who would like to donate separately can send a check made payable to "Love on Your Back" to Carol Wood, 3597 Kellington Court, Oceanside CA 92056.

Wood is president of the Love on Your Back program, which is a nonprofit charity. There are also containers in the offices of Bonsall Elementary and Sullivan Middle schools for donated food items. Items needed are shown on the Love on Your Back Facebook page.

The Bonsall Woman's Club will meet Feb. 6, the first Thursday of the month, at The Golf Club of California, 3742 Flowerwood Lane, in Fallbrook. The doors open at 9 a.m. with coffee and tea available.

The lunch will be chicken piccata with lemon caper sauce, white rice, salad and bread.

To reserve a seat, send a check made payable to BWC, to Barbara Hartloff, 4202 Palomar Drive, Fallbrook, CA 92028. The lunch cost is $23, which includes tax and tip. For additional information on BWC, visit http://www.bonsallwomansclub.org.

Submitted by Bonsall Woman's Club.