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Good afternoon, everybody – Today we served a total of 32 families, including 52 adults, 46 children and 6 seniors. I downloaded the diaper applications in English and Spanish from the Junior League website and printed out some to give out to the clients today.  I offered to help people fill them out, but IContinue reading “September 20, 2017”

Good afternoon, everyone – Today we served a total of 25 families, with 43 adults, 29 children and 6 seniors. This past Monday I was at a diaper-packing event at the Westchester County Center, sponsored by Volunteer New York and the Junior League’s Diaper Bank.  I met a wonderful woman by the name of WendyContinue reading “September 13, 2017”

Good evening, everybody – Today we served only 12 families, including 16 adults, 14 children and 7 seniors. It’s a shame that so few people came, because we’re going ahead with our plan of giving out meat, fish or poultry on the first Wednesday of the month, and this morning twelve lucky families went homeContinue reading “September 6, 2017”

Good afternoon, everybody – Yesterday in the morning we served a total of 26 families, including 40 adults, 41 children and 9 seniors.  Then in the evening Benny and I served another 5 families with 10 adults, 5 children and 2 seniors.  That brings us to 31 families with 50 adults, 46 children and 11Continue reading “August 31, 2017”

Good afternoon, everybody – Today we served a total of 19 families, including 31 adults, 25 children and 5 seniors. We’ve gotten another check from Share Your Wish, which is an Irvington-based organization through which children can encourage guests coming to their birthday parties to donate money to the food pantry instead of buying aContinue reading “August 23, 2017”

Good afternoon, everybody – Today we served a total of 34 families, including 57 adults, 46 children and 7 seniors. We were visited again by Berta Diaz from the Westchester Hispanic Coalition, and this time an attorney from WHC came with her.  They were with us the whole time, and several people had questions forContinue reading “August 16, 2017”

Good afternoon, everybody – Today we served a total of 33 families, including 53 adults, 44 children and 10 seniors. We volunteers hold a brief meeting every Wednesday morning before the pantry opens, and this morning we discussed again the request made by some of the clients for us to be open from 9:00-12:00 insteadContinue reading “August 9, 2017”