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Good afternoon, everybody – on Wednesday in the morning we served a total of 31 families, including 55 adults, 46 children and 11 seniors.  Then in the evening Benny and I served another 5 families with 9 adults and 8 children.  This brings us to a total of 36 families with 64 adults, 54 childrenContinue reading “June 30, 2017”

Good afternoon, everybody – yesterday we served a total of 24 families, including 39 adults, 39 children and 6 seniors. Our clients were happy that the CSA has started again, and we’ll have fresh produce for them every week.  This coming Wednesday we’ll have lettuce, tomatoes, radishes, onions. cilantro, purslane and strawberries. A volunteer whoContinue reading “June 22, 2017”

Hello everybody – yesterday we served a total of 28 families, including 44 adults, 47 children and 7 seniors. Earlier in the week we had received an e-mail from the Food Bank, offering FREE vegetables!  I went over there and got a 50-pound bag of potatoes (it didn’t occur to me to think about howContinue reading “June 15, 2017”

Good afternoon, everyone – Yesterday we served a total of 18 families, including 32 adults, 21 children and 4 seniors. While the pantry was going on I was able to hand out a flyer from an organization by the name of whyhunger.org.  It was advertising places where children could eat meals for free during theContinue reading “June 8, 2017”

  Hello, everybody – Wednesday morning we served a total of 30 families, including 54 adults, 44 children and 6 seniors.  Then in the evening we served another 15 families of 25 adults, 18 children and 4 seniors. This means we served a total of 45 families with 79 adults, 62 children and 10 seniors.Continue reading “June 2, 2017”

  Good afternoon, everybody – today we served a total of 20 families, including 35 adults, 21 children and 4 seniors. Last Saturday Lyn and I and our husbands attended a meeting in Ossining about immigration issues.  Afterwards they put on a cantata entitled “Manos Indocumentadas” (Undocumented Hands).  It was so well done that we’reContinue reading “May 24, 2017”

Good evening, everybody – today we served a total of 34 families, including 58 adults, 42 children and 8 seniors. Today we were visited by an organization by the name of the Westchester Hispanic Coalition.  Two young women set up a table and gave information and flyers out to those clients who expressed interest.  TheContinue reading “May 17, 2017”

Good afternoon, everybody – today we served a total of 30 families, including 57 adults, 39 children and 6 seniors. Due to a scheduling confusion, the Cassatt String Quartet was scheduled to rehearse for Sunday’s concert this morning while the pantry was going on in the sanctuary.  Our pantry clients got to listen in onContinue reading “May 10, 2017”

Troop 1694 from Dobbs Ferry Middle School, in front of many boxes of Girl Scout cookies (including gluten-free Toffee-tastic) being donated to the pantry.  Everybody loves Girl Scout cookies!  Thanks so much to the girls, their parents and troop leaders Tess McDade and Michelle Wurf.

I hit “send” a little too quickly before I was able to add that, on top of everything else, the Dobbs Ferry Senior Center gave us a donation not only of an entire bin full of food but also a container of backpacks. Abby Connett, the Director, wasn’t sure who donated those backpacks to the Center, but byContinue reading “May 3, 2017”