Friends, urging friends, to help friends – of course From the Valley EM AND CHASCA are blessed with an abundance of food produced on their little hillbilly homestead. For her birthday Facebook fundraiser, Em chose the Gays Mills Food Pantry to help address growing food insecurity issues in our community. RISING SUN - Last week you heard about my ‘big birthday blowout’ excitement. Memorable for sure. But something I didn’t get a chance to share with you was perhaps the most exciting of all. If you’re familiar with Facebook you may have seen that they often prompt folks to create a fundraiser on their birthday. Usually, they even offer up suggestions. Their ideas focus on their typical likes or things that the algorithms have noticed are important. The American Humane Society is a classic example.