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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”

Good afternoon, everybody – today we served a total of 23 families, including 39 adults, 25 children and 6 seniors. This week we received a check from the Church of St. Barnabas in Irvington in response to our application for a grant from them.  St. Barnabas is one of the most generous churches we haveContinue reading “May 3, 2017”

Good afternoon, everybody – Yesterday in the morning we served a total of 17 families, including 26 adults, 23 children and 5 seniors.  Then in the evening we served another 17 families with 29 adults, 19 children and 3 seniors.  So, the total was 34 families with 55 adults, 42 children and 8 seniors.  WeContinue reading “April 27, 2017”

Good afternoon, everybody – yesterday we served a total of 35 families, including 63 adults, 44 children and 8 seniors. The Director of the Irvington Library, Rosemarie Gatzek, has contacted me to tell me that her office is full of donated shelf-stable food again.  It’s amazing how generous the patrons of that library are.  We’llContinue reading “April 20, 2017”

Easter bags brought by the children of the Church of St. Barnabas for the children of the pantry clients.  Thanks kids!

Good afternoon, everybody – This morning we served a total of 35 families, including 59 adults, 52 children and 10 seniors.  We had three more hams to give out from the Dobbs Ferry Woman’s Club, so those clients went home happy. Plus everyone got a gift card, due to the generosity of the parishioners ofContinue reading “April 12, 2017”

Lyn and Molly being interviewed about the Pantry at Greenburgh Town Hall by intern Noor Brewster.  Thanks, Noor and thanks, Paul Feiner.  The show will be shown on the Greenburgh Public Access channel some time in May.  It’s channel 75 for Cablevision and channel 34 for FIOS.  If you visit the Greenburgh website at http://www.greenburghpublicaccess.com,Continue reading “April 10, 2017”

Bags and bags and bags of food – all from the food drive yesterday at Stop & Shop, sponsored by the Food Bank for Westchester.  We ended up with 2,150 pounds of food!!!  Now to sort it all.