From left, Bella Bonham, 8, and sister Ana Bonham, 6, talk with Assistance League of Diablo Valley volunteer Pam Pitts, of Lafayette, after the two girls looked for clothing with their mother at the Target store in Pleasant Hill, Calif., on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. Both were given an $80 voucher for clothing that was supplied by the Assistance League of Diablo Valley. The Assistance League of Diablo Valley volunteers provide service to those in need or at risk in the community. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)

Hope, joy abounds for Assistance League recipients and volunteers who help them

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Bay Area News Group


(Photo Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)

PLEASANT HILL — Little Blake Langmade flashed his wide, baby-toothed smile to a visitor, turned his head and pointed at the white T-shirt in his mother’s shopping cart, the one with a black-lined, cartoon outline of an astronaut on the front. Then he turned around and smiled again.

“You like it?” his mother, Lynn, asked.

“I like it!” Blake responded with 5 1/2-year-old enthusiasm. “But why is the astronaut mopping?”

With that, he grinned again and giggled. So did everybody around him, including his twin brother, Jade.

Such joyful moments embody the mission that the Assistance League of Diablo Valley has been carrying out for more than half a century. The local branch of the national nonprofit organization helps to put clothes on children, food on the table of families and money for education in the hands of students.

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