Author Archives: dfpantry

Good afternoon, everyone – yesterday, in spite of the snow, we served a total of 22 families, including 31 adults, 32 children and 7 seniors. This afternoon we received a generous donation of fourteen bags of shelf-stable food from Ardsley United Methodist Church.  Ken Stahn is the one who organizes the collection of food atContinue reading “January 17, 2018”

Good afternoon, everybody – yesterday we served a total of 21 families, including 29 adults, 25 children and 9 seniors. Two of our volunteers have already taken the training for the USDA civil rights requirement.  We’ll all be trained by February.  We’ve determined that a person in a wheelchair can easily participate in the pantry,Continue reading “January 11, 2018”

Good afternoon, everybody – yesterday we served a total of 21 families, including 31 adults, 25 children and 9 seniors.  Of those 21 families, 3 were families to whom we delivered food because they were elderly or disabled and couldn’t get to the pantry.  Tricia took food to a family in Ardsley and Benny andContinue reading “January 3, 2018”

Good afternoon, everybody – On Wednesday morning we served a total of 30 families, including 44 adults, 46 children and 11 seniors.  In the evening we served another 5 families with 10 adults and 9 children, for a total of 35 families, 54 adults, 55 children and 11 seniors.  We averaged 32 families a monthContinue reading “December 27, 2017”

Good evening, everybody – today we served a total of 44 families, including 72 adults, 53 children and 13 seniors.  We gave out gift cards, decorative tote bags and festive candy canes. A neighbor of mine is replacing her kitchen appliances and asked me if anybody at the pantry could use the ones she wasContinue reading “December 20, 2017”

Good evening, everyone – I wasn’t at the pantry yesterday, but the other volunteers soldiered on.  They served a total of 25 families, including 37 adults, 27 children and 9 seniors. Ever since Paul Feiner suggested that we put a bin at Greenburgh Town Hall so that people could donate food, I’ve been checking regularlyContinue reading “December 14, 2017”

Hello, everybody – today we served a total of 22 families, including 34 adults, 27 children and 7 seniors. December 15 will be a big day for us.  In the afternoon we’ll be receiving a donation of food collected by the 5th-through-8th-grade classes at the Masters School.  They’ll just carry it right down Clinton Avenue,Continue reading “December 6, 2017”

Good morning, everyone – Wednesday in the morning we served a total of 24 families, including 35 adults, 29 children and 10 seniors.  In the evening Benny, Andrew and I served another 12 families with 27 adults, 20 children and 3 seniors.  This brought us to a total for the day of 36 families withContinue reading “December 1, 2017”