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Feb 11, 2005

"No one has ever become poor by giving." --Anne Frank

Fruits of Love

With the hullabaloo of the December holidays over, food donations at the Second Harvest Food Bank have dwindled. But one child has stepped forward to provide the fruits of California's winter. Jacob Olian, 8, dreamed up the plan to collect the oranges, grapefruits, tangerines and lemons from people's backyards and give them to the food bank. Jacob typed up a flyer that read “Got Fruit?” and asked recipients to fill bags with fruit from their trees and call him for a pick-up. So far, Jacob’s project has provided 172 pounds of fruit to low-income families.