Attended Event: Saturday, July 12th, 2025-7:00am to 12:30 pm & transit home- 12:30-3:30pm- BRACE-Wonders of the Word Ministries charity food giveaway @ 57th & Lyllian hwy & ride home

 John Thomas Winskas Attended Event:

Attended Event: Saturday, July 12th, 2025-7:30am to 12:30 pm Wonders of the Word Ministries charity food giveaway 57th & Lyllian hwy.

• Traveled to N 57th Ave & FL-298; 
• jogged to bus stop at palafox & lloyd, 
• took bus to jackson & 57th; 
• ate two oatmeal sandwhiches for breakfast, 1/4 cup oatmeal (1/8 cup of oatmeal each, w/ 1-3 TBS homemade cornbread & oatmeal cinnamon & nutmeg icecream, 1 -2 tsp of syrup; 2 TBS of peanut butter, 4 slices of bread)
• Jogged from jackson & 57th to Lyllian & 57th
• Arrived at Wonders of the word ministries Charity food giveaway event around 7:00am.
• Wore Brace reflective vest before, during, and after event.
•  Unfolded/setup tables. 
• Unfolded boxes. Taped boxes, while pallets were unloaded from truck. 
• placed macaroni & cheese & elbow noodles in the boxes on the east side of pallets.
• Placed apple juice in the boxes on the east side of pallets.
• placed peaches in the boxes on the tables on the east side of the pallets.
• placed empty elbow noodle & mac & cheese boxes upside down, under the east line of tables for 6" clearance from ground.
• placed banana boxes from proteins, and empty peach boxes on top of and under the east line of tables (on top of the elbow noodle & mac & cheese boxes) to fill with food.
• The event was limited to a single line the west side of pallets during the beginning of the event.
• Picked up food boxes from tables and placed food boxes in cars as they pulled up.
• Add food to boxes towards the end of event after the initial prepped boxes were handed out.
• broke down card board boxes and placed them in recycle trailer.
• Helped picked up garbage from site/area before leaving
• had to catch the bus at 12:35pm

• Traveled Home;
• Jogged to 49th st & llyllian hwy;  
• got on 2 bus at 12:33 pm
• xfer pass & bus pass got stuck in bus ticket machine because it was wet (couldn’t get xfer pass had to go rosa park’s xfer station to get xfer pass & replace 3.00$ balance on  bus fare/ pass).
• ate a banana
• Arrived at rosa parks transfer station
•  with the help of the route 2 bus driver after my $3.00 ticket was removed- got a transfer pass (as I was already charged the 1.75 fare twice as my xfer pass didn't work from the fare i paid this morning, I used the 4.75 fare ticket that jammed the ticket machine after being charged and the balance changed to $3.00) and a 3.25 bus fare ticket from a rosa parks transit station window to replace the jammed/ wet ticket that wouldn't/ couldn't be run through the bus ticket machine.
• The bus driver held on to my aforementioned $3.00 ticket that jammed the machine
• Traveled Home from Rosa parks transfer station
•  Used my transfer ticket to ride home on the 45 to mlk st. 
• Met/ran into frank again near mlk and Cervantes, 
• gave him a few things i didn't need, a banana and a couple mandarins I had leftover from my breakfast & lunch; the $ 3.25 bus pass I recieved from the rosa parks transfer station, a few pamphlets (street survival guide, project reconnect, and 211 card) and might have given him a bottle of water. 
• listened to/ talked to frank for a few minutes.
• learned about a tragic death yesterday evening.
• a young woman was killed riding an electric scooter on or near palafox.
• walked to publix to buy bananas, 2 boxes of cornbread mix, and a $35 money order to pay my phone rental bill to my parents due the 14th.
• walked home
• gave my dad $0.75 cents i had left over- for the 2 TBS of peanut butter I ate earlier & the 2-4 TBS I put in my nutrition shake last night. 

I look forward to continuing to volunteer with/for BRACE CERT at Wonders of the Word Ministries charity food giveaway events!