I hope everyone seems to be having fun with their summer time. This summer time has been flying quick. Earlier than you understand it, the children will likely be in class and cooler climate will arrive. Though there have been some days that I used to be on the lookout for cooler climate, like at this time.
We’re nonetheless doing the drive by means of window service. The trustees of the First Baptist Church don’t permit individuals into the church until they’re its members or Kitchen Cabinet volunteers. We now have been doing the drive in window service since Covid began and it has labored very nicely.
Our Board of Administrators had its final assembly in Might at Sacred Coronary heart Church. We’re speaking about Occasion within the Park, of which we have already had two this yr, and the donations from each events have been fantastic. We wish to thank everybody who bought extra tickets for the drawings. The subsequent Occasion within the Park is Thursday, August 11 at Plaza Park from 5-Eight pm We won’t meet till September for our subsequent Council of Church buildings assembly.
Have you ever visited our Fb web page for Oelwein kitchen cupboards? I attempt to put up data and updates concerning the happenings on the Kitchen Cabinet. If we now have to shut attributable to unhealthy climate, I’ll put up this on the web page. Anybody can remark or ask a query on the web page too and I will reply.
Kitchen Cabinet’s purple meals luggage have been a blessing for Cabinet, and as soon as once more because of Marti Rosenstiel who got here up with the thought, Paul Schemmel and his staff at Fareway, and Matt Nelson at Greenback Recent, that proceed to fill the luggage and put them up on the market. The Purple Baggage at each grocery shops are an excellent simple approach to donate to Cabinet on this time of want.
We wish to give an enormous thanks to Matt Nelson at Greenback Recent and Paul Schemmel at Fareway for all of the unused meals we obtain from you each Tuesday and Friday. This stuff are dented, about to run out, or not on the market. Our clients can obtain these things by coming to the Pantry on Tuesday mornings from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and Friday afternoons from 1 p.m. to four p.m. You should be a Kitchen Pantry buyer for the previous yr to obtain these things .
With extra clients coming to the Pantry, we now have needed to do some grocery searching for all of the objects which have gone out. Among the objects we bought had been canned greens, canned fruits, sugar, cereals, and soups. There will likely be a have to make one other buy with all the shoppers we now have seen within the final three months.
For the months of Might, June and July we now have had 151 clients convey a referral and so they got canned tuna, juice, canned greens, canned fruit, scorching or chilly cereal, soups, noodles, ketchup, peanut butter, jelly , pudding or Jell-O, flour or sugar, laundry cleaning soap, rice, macaroni and cheese, and bathroom paper. These 151 clients additionally obtained a coupon from Kitchen Cabinet for Fareway or Greenback Recent to obtain perishable objects for which we wouldn’t have area on the Cabinet. The quantity of the voucher is decided by what number of are within the household, whether or not it’s the first time or the second time within the Closet in 6 months. With this cash they’ll obtain milk, eggs, butter, contemporary greens and fruits, bread and sure meats within the meat division. The quantity of the bonus that was delivered to those 151 shoppers amounted to $four,912 for the three months. We additionally had about 217 clients come to the window only for the additional objects we obtained from Fareway and Greenback Recent. This exhibits that the residents of Oelwein and Maynard should work collectively to assist households in want of meals. All clients who come to the window thank us for every part we do for them. They admire what we’re doing for them.
The next church buildings are members of our Board of Administrators and are requested to gather the next objects in the course of the months of August and September 2022: United Presbyterian Church of Christ; 5 ouncescan of tuna; First Baptist Church: rooster noodle soup; First Presbyterian Church in Maynard: Pork and Beans; Grace United Methodist Church: 15 oz. peaches; Church of the Sacred Coronary heart: August; complete kernel corn; September; 15 ounces tomato sauce; and Zion Lutheran Church: canned tomatoes. Gadgets will be left within the kitchen cabinet on Tuesday mornings and Friday afternoons if you cannot get to your church.
Lastly, I wish to thank all of my nice volunteers, particularly Carol Hamilton, who has labored arduous on methods to deal with clients safely and with social distancing. My volunteers are a terrific assist to me by helping clients with their meals picks, stocking cabinets and organizing each the client purchasing room and our storage room, and sorting, counting, and storing meals donations. We now have a terrific workforce of vans that assist us out after we do an enormous grocery purchasing, and so they all the time know what must be achieved and get it achieved rapidly and effectively.
The Group Kitchen Closet is situated on the decrease degree of the First Baptist Church at 31 First Ave. NE (throughout from the Submit Workplace). The Kitchen Cabinet is open to the general public Tuesdays from 9 am to midday and Fridays from 1 to four pm The Kitchen Cabinet is closed on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, so the telephone is simply answered throughout enterprise hours. If you’ll want to attain us by telephone, throughout our enterprise hours, the quantity to succeed in us is 319-283-3595.
