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Meredith M. Reed: No amount of jumping will fill our food pantries

A couple of weeks ago, my town was chock-full of volunteers in orange shirts on street corners and round-abouts holding signs for their organizations and enthusiastically waving to honking passersby. My social media feed was a non-stop stream of photos of those same people jumping and leaping, with arms-flailed-feet-flying exuberance.

All of this waving and jumping was meant to encourage community members to donate to Live PC Give PC, the Park City Community Foundation’s annual day of giving. These efforts were not in vain. The foundation raised more than $2.4 million for area nonprofits.

There’s a local saying that, “If you’re lucky enough to live in Park City, you’re lucky enough.