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Right about now, most of us are getting $600 or more from the government. We didn't ask for it, and many of us don't really need it. You may have thought that it should have gone instead to people to whom $600 could make a real difference.

So what can we do to get that money to individuals or groups struggling to stay afloat? Who are these people? How do we find them?

We, the Rotary Club of Edmonds Daybreakers, are good at that. Every year for the past 25 years, we have given away tens of thousands of dollars to causes serving people in need, including, among others: Edmonds Boys & Gir...