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Good afternoon, everybody – Today we served a total of 26 families, including 40 adults, 28 children and 6 seniors. Berta Diaz of the Westchester Hispanic Coalition was with us again today, although she didn’t arrive until around 11:00, so she missed a lot of the clients.  It turns out she did an internship atContinue reading “August 2, 2017”

Good morning, everybody – Yesterday in the morning we served a total of 30 families, including 48 adults, 37 children and 8 seniors.  Then in the evening we served another 10 families, including 21 adults, 16 children and 2 seniors, for a total of 40 families, 69 adults, 53 children and 10 seniors.  We averagedContinue reading “July 27, 2017”

Good morning, everybody – Yesterday we served a total of 38 families, including 65 adults, 56 children and 6 seniors.  On the third Wednesday of the month we give out flour and oil in addition to the foods we routinely stock.  It’s expensive, so we can only afford to offer it once a month.  EvenContinue reading “July 20, 2017”

Good afternoon, everybody – neither Lyn nor I were at the pantry today, yet it ran like a well-oiled machine.  We served 27 families today, including 44 adults, 38 children and 7 seniors. In addition to the produce from the CSA today, there was also fresh fruit, which we ordered from Stop & Shop’s Peapod,Continue reading “July 12, 2017”

Good afternoon, everybody – today we served a total of 26 families, including 39 adults, 32 children and 8 seniors. Carol needed a hand truck to bring all the food donated this week by Zion Episcopal Church in Dobbs Ferry.  It turns out that a family affiliated with Zion had a party and encouraged allContinue reading “July 5, 2017”

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”