Thank you Thommy Rhett for your continued support. Years and years you have delivered fruit to our kitchen door to be served on Saturday mornings. Now, we thank you for the apple sauce and celery. You set a beautiful example.

Special thanks to Arin Coyle and Omar Dominguez for making sure chicken noodle soup and tuna get to us despite the miles between us. They live in Wrightwood and Santa Ana respectively.

Night of Swing Recap

by Ray Castellani

January 23 Year 200 was a beautiful and most heartwarming experience Frontline has ever had - My hope was to bring people together from all walks of life in one room with one sole purpose - that was to enhance the betterment of mankind -

All I spoke with wanted to do it again - So yes on January 21, 2001 Frontline will do it again - advance reservations have already been set forth even before our first announcement - Same place - Sheraton Universal - 5:30 on a Sunday for cocktails and at 6:30 the doors will open with Glen Roberts - Dinner at about 7:00 and at 8:00 our petite floor show with our prizes and hosts - I would love to see 500 people milling around with the energy of hope for our world to be a better place for humanity to reside - It is and was an honor for me to host Swing Night - A privilege for me to be a part of Frontline - This year coming up I will not sit at a table but rather devote my total energy to meet all the people - I thank all the sponsors - all of the people who came and the Sheraton Universal - And I thank God for using me as an instrument to fulfill His Will in some small way - We also raised over $10,000 after expenses - A real bonus - Thank you dear people - Please try and make it January 21st for Swing 2001’

Canned food drives - volunteers - chefs - they are everywhere!

Sparks Elementary School collected over 250 cans of tuna recently, and Sandra and Renee McCray continue to head up tuna drives at Noble Avenue Elementary and Fairfield Avenue Elementary. Here student councils and teacher involvement motivate the students.

Castlemont School in Woodland Hills held it’s fourth sandwich making day. Thanks to Marty Nislick, 900 students each made one sandwich, bagged it and then added fruit and drinks that the parents so generously donated. The sacks were delivered after school.

Valley Beth Shalom held their annual food drives bringing in tons of tuna in fall and tons of peanut butter and jelly in the spring. Their support extends from the littlest kindergartner to the 6th graders, to the administrators, teachers and parents. Special thanks Orly Zvi for delivering the food on Saturday mornings.

Archer School for Girls has volunteered twice so far this year. With teacher advisers Ms. Morris and Ms. Valaderes the young women come to the kitchen, prepare cookie dough and bake cookies. According to Frontline’s founder Castellani, "These powerful young women did a fine job - They made the cookies with efficiency with love and with care."

Brownie Troop #464 in Granada Hills has continued their annual holiday tradition. Each year elementary school age girls bake goodies, bag them with holiday decor and then bring them to their Friday afternoon meeting at Vintage Magnet.

These young people provide such an example for our society. With no expectations of rehabilitating people, no demands placed, no judgements on who they serve, these young people truly do give for the purity of giving.

A Night of Humbling

by Noreen Castellani

Night of Swing was certainly an unbelievable evening. All afternoon I couldn’t deter my thoughts from how far Frontline had come. I kept thinking of the spaghetti dinner in 1988 when Ray and his son Raymond Jr. cooked spaghetti and meatballs in a basement church kitchen. Paper napkins, paper plates, plastic cups - I had been so involved in making these events what they were.

For me, I’ve grown up in Frontline. Rather, Frontline has grown me up. Being on the streets with Ray is probably the most exciting thing I can say I’ve experienced in my life. It taught me patience (which I certainly haven’t come close to mastering!), it taught me the power of love and a smile, it humbled me, and it taught me how to "be". Whether good or bad, I really do owe all that I am to Frontline.

But, I’ve had great difficulty growing into the area where Frontline is now. It’s hard for me to leave the picnics, the dinners, the days at the races. In truth, I can’t say that I did very much in the planning of the Night of Swing. Sure I reluctantly printed flyer after flyer (they had to be updated daily to highlight new sponsors). And yes, I made some calls to get prizes donated. But, Ray was the one who did everything - literally. He was the one who got the majority of the 430 people to attend. To think of how little I did was really humbling, even more so when that night so many came up and complimented me on having put together this event. I have to say, as much as I was honored to be in the presence of this event and to see the growth of Frontline, I was kind of ashamed at what little I did to promote the evening. I was a "Doubting Thomas" - an unbeliever. Maybe not aloud, but certainly my actions, or lack of, indicated this. Never in my wildest imagination would the night have turned out the way it did. Maybe I was miffed that Ray had gone out and made the room reservation on a whim without consulting me. Or maybe it was because I was envious that I didn’t have the vision of the night like Ray did. Though had Ray brought it up to me before doing it, me and my "little" mind probably would have been a discourager instead of an encourager.

The horror of what happened to you dear friend will last what lifetime I have left - You have given me the best tribute a person can give

another - that is you wanted the principles of which I live by to prevail in your being - For the better part of 15 years you listened and executed these principles with a passion - You became a man among men - You lived your life - found your way to peace of mind - and a God that guided you -

On December 17th of 1999 you and I talked on the phone from California to Tennessee as we did many times these past 4 years - We spoke of how happy you were - of how you found a lady friend who you cared about - We talked about God and how when I met Him - I would let Him know a thing or two - and that I would make sure He took care of you - We talked this way for years for I was 17 years older than you - We laughed so much - we cried at times - The spirit of understanding grew - you called me many times to see if all was well - How I remember the moments of revelation when you got the point I was trying to make -

Well, Dear Danny - you have surpassed me in all areas - You dear friend have become the teacher - I am the student - You dear friend are with the Master - all knowing - transcending His knowledge to you - You have a most beautiful light that encompasses your soul - a smile on your face that will last for eternity -

You Dear Danny were born January 10, 1951 and on January 19, 2000 while you were asleep on the couch - fate came - even though I was 3000 miles away - I can feel the bullets enter your body - I have woken up many nights since with this vision - I cry for you dear friend - for I am only a mortal - my only wish is that it was me - Good night Dear Danny - We will meet soon and walk the path with God as eternity embraces our souls -

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By Tex

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