February 15, 2023
(Fanfare Music) It is with great pleasure that we announce that the Board of Directors of the Community Foundation of Henderson County awarded the Calvary Episcopal Church Food Pantry a grant of $14,348.00 to support a Hoop House for the Lord's Acre of Fletcher, our garden. Garden Master, Doug Kearney prepared a powerful PowerPoint that was presented to the Grant Committee. Highlights of PowerPoint is located HERE.
We welcomed 127 families representing 452 individuals. Twelve new families came and received food for the first time with us. Chef Martha prepared three tasty recipes on Tuesday as part of the Carolina Kitchen for WLOS. She prepared a yummy egg white veggie omelet and with the leftover egg yolks she grilled spicy French toast. Finally she stirred up a mouth watering S'More chocolate pie. Her recipes and the videos can be viewed on upcoming segments of the WLOS Carolina Kitchen.
VERITAS Christian Academy , third graders, donated 55 pounds of macaroni, spaghetti, diapers, boxes of mac and cheese, and peanut butter. City Bakery donated loaves of bread. Other donated items were from Bright Farms-lettuce, Panera-rolls, Ingles and Bimbos-bread, Wal-Mart-misc. items, Flavor-First peppers and tomatoes, and MilCo-milk. Friday, our volunteers stocked the shelves with purchased items from MANNA and Sav-Mor (canned goods, milk, and eggs). Manna provided fresh produce-eggplant, sweet potatoes, apples, squash, and turnips. We purchased potatoes and onions from JandJ Tomato Co.
It's Pantry-ary month. We would like to extend an invitation to tour our 5,000 square foot facility and The Lord's Acre of Fletcher, our garden so you can find out how donations are making life better for our neighbors with food insecurity. Every Friday at 9:00, volunteers stock the shelves with your donations. On Saturdays from 8-11, food is distributed through the MANNA neighbor shopping model. We would be honored to have you as a guest. Please email me with any questions or if you have a group that would like to come at a different time to tour the facility. knoyes372@gmail.com
On behalf of the executive committee, thank you to our volunteers and our area churches, civic groups, local merchants, and families for all you do to feed our community helping to reduce food insecurity.
Kathy Noyes
