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July 12, 2020 - Food Pantry is growing
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Since March 14th, the Food Pantry has been open every Saturday to help those in need— whose numbers have continued to grow. In the month of June the average number of families served was 118.
In May, we partnered with Monteverde Produce, who, through a USDA grant, provides 120 boxes of produce and fruit each week. This is a six week grant which is now renewed for the next six weeks.
Parishioners also have been extremely generous. We have received contributions of meat (chicken and hamburger) worth @ $500 on several
occasions; bread, eggs, cheese, peanut butter, jelly, cereal etc. have also been supplied.
We normally buy about $900 worth of food each week to meet the need—financial contributions have made this possible. We even received a grant from the May Emma Hoyt Foundation that totaled $2,000. LCCAP has been providing dairy products for several weeks.
Volunteers continue to help out. During these weeks we have had 28 volunteers; 16 of whom come almost every week. We start setting up around 9:00 am and begin giving out food at 10:00 am. The first hour is extremely busy—that is when we give out about 85% of the food. And, we have a lot of fun!
