For the sixth year in a row, one dedicated local kid, Dylan Friedman-Almond of Malibu Park, with help from a friend, has assembled individual bags of trail mix to hand out to the homeless and less fortunate at Malibu United Methodist Church’s community Thanksgiving dinner. The bags have hand-made tags with uplifting messages like “Have a great life!” or “You rock!”
Because all of the bags were collected by grateful diners “after about five minutes” at last year’s Thanksgiving dinner, she vowed to double the number of bags for this year to 300. After canvassing a number of local grocery stores to donate trail mix ingredients like nuts, chocolate chips and raisins, Trader Joe’s came through.
Dylan and her friend Jaiya Davis spent all of last Friday—and then some—assembling the trail mix into biodegradable bags. Dylan’s mother, Dana Friedman, will accompany them to the Thanksgiving dinner to hand them out.
With help, Dylan is also putting up a website this week to “teach other kids [in other communities] how to make the trail mix.” It’ll include a how-to video at dylanstrailmix.com.
