Open Heart Kitchen, a Livermore-based nonprofit that provides free meals in the Tri-Valley area, is suggesting a novel way to send someone a card for Valentine’s Day.

Need a new fruit bowl for the kitchen or living room area? Then look no further than this quick and easy Dollar Tree hack.

Child efforts last year ended with the local collection relay facility Free Methodist Church collecting 13,408 shoeboxes this year. The church collects boxes from a five-county area.