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New bin for pantry at Stop & Shop in Dobbs Ferry – please add something to the bin when you’re shopping there.  The hungry people of the Rivertowns will appreciate it!

Good afternoon, everybody – Today we served a total of 27 families, including 56 adults, 35 children and 13 seniors. Our resident techie, Barbara M. has put up a request for donations, both edible and monetary, on several different Facebook pages throughout the Rivertowns, and you should see the response!  People in Manhattan donated!  Don’tContinue reading “August 1, 2018”

Good afternoon, everybody – I wasn’t at the pantry in the morning, but the team soldiered on and did a great job.  In the morning we served a total of 29 families, including 49 adults, 44 children and 10 seniors.  Then, since it was the last Wednesday of the month, in the evening Benny, AndrewContinue reading “July 26, 2018”

Good morning, everybody – yesterday we served a total of 29 families, including 59 adults, 33 children and 11 seniors. A couple of people responded to my description of the Feeding Westchester 5K, which will take place at Pace University in Pleasantville on Sunday, September 23 from 9:00 a.m. until noon.  We have about sevenContinue reading “July 19, 2018”

Good afternoon, everybody – today we served a total of 32 families, including 64 adults, 47 children and 12 seniors. I told the clients about the two-day sale at the Church of St. Barnabas in Irvington, which takes place today and tomorrow and always has fantastic bargains. I also told them about the Zion EpiscopalContinue reading “July 11, 2018”

Good afternoon, everybody – yesterday in the morning we served a total of 27 families, including 50 adults, 41 children and 11 seniors.  Then in the evening we served another 12 families with 28 adults, 23 children and 2 more seniors.  That brought us to a total of 39 families, 78 adults, 64 children andContinue reading “June 28, 2018”

Good afternoon, everyone – today we served a total of 23 families, including 41 adults, 37 children and 8 seniors. This past Sunday we had some beautiful lettuce from the CSA, along with strawberries, pea shoots, collard greens, some herbs and some rutabaga.  Plus we get donations twice a week from Springhurst and the MiddleContinue reading “June 13, 2018”

Good afternoon, everyone – yesterday we served a total of 29 families, including 55 adults, 41 children and 12 seniors. Tom and Andrew picked up our first CSA shares from FABLE this past Sunday, and we’re off to a flying start.  We’ll have two shares plus whatever is left over at the end of theContinue reading “June 7, 2018”

Good afternoon, everyone – good to be back, and thank you to all the volunteers who kept the pantry going while I was away.  We are an interchangeable group, so no one individual is indispensable.  That’s important because it means that no matter who’s there or not there on a given Wednesday, the clients areContinue reading “May 31, 2018”

Good evening, everybody – today we served a total of 25 families with 51 adults, 39 children and 8 seniors. While the pantry was in process, we were gifted with a donation of 32 boxes of Girl Scout cookies from Troop 2147 in Dobbs Ferry.  The cookies flew off the shelf like hotcakes. One ofContinue reading “May 9, 2018”