Weekly Update. April 1, 2025
 Veterans Initiatives Veterans Events: The Veterans Committee hosted a Movie Day for 50 Veterans on Wednesday. The movie, Out To Sea, originally released in 1997 starred Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. It took a great dealing of planning and arranging details, and everyone had a great time.  Veteran Food Pantry Last Thursday the Veterans Committee served over 100 veterans (60 in person and 42 with home deliveries). We also had Starbucks on hand with brewed coffee, pastries and fresh ground Starbucks coffee for our Veterans to take home. This program is growing by approximately 10 veterans each month.   Pop Up Pantry Our newest initiative kicks off this week. We will be sponsoring Food Closets at several schools in an attempt to help families who are food insecure. This program will be funded by the generosity of grants from both Phillips 66 and Richmond County Savings Foundation. This is slightly different than our Weekend Food Backpack Program which identifies families at 8 schools to receive food throughout the school year.  Weekend Food Backpack Program The WFBP is currently offered at 8 schools with 20 participants at each location. Parent Coordinators help to identify students and families who are food insecure to receive a full backpack each Friday during school year to help alleviate hunger on weekends. At this time we cannot take on additional schools and have introduced our Pop Up Panty to help in a similar yet smaller way.  Three weeks remain on our health and wellness workshop, click for Health and Wellness sign up  |
On sale now….our newest fundraiser! (50) $10 Set For Life Scratch Off tickets will be raffled at our June 19th meeting. Great gift idea for Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Birthdays and Graduations. Gift cards enclosures are available. Click link to purchase tickets SET FOR LIFE |
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CALLING ALL SOCIAL READERS! Join us this Thursday at 7pm for an information session for our upcoming bookclub. |
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