Small miracles with uncanny regularity
Pictured at the right are Peter Keast, President of the Forest City Lions Club (FCLC) and Brenda Reilly, Manager of the Amazing Grace Food Pantry in Middletown. She just received about 400 pounds of non-perishable human food from FCLC, as well as about 100 pounds of personal hygiene products and another 300 pounds in dog & cat food. That food and the hygiene products will help meet the needs of about 1100 families from Middletown who use the food pantry twice monthly, many of whom have dogs and cats.
Pictured on the left is Lion Wallace Collins from Forest City Lions Club. He’s holding a 3 lb. package of Hormel bacon, taken from a box containing 15 more packages of bacon weighing the same. St. Vincent de Paul’s Soup Kitchen Chef, Jeremiah Ruffini, was over the moon when he got the bacon this morning. He’s thinking about bacon bits for the salad bar and breakfast bacon for his dining room guests all week.
While making the rounds to food pantries in Middletown, we noticed at one some grossly inadequate and broken shelving. We left the food and personal hygiene supplies that they needed, then remembered that Lion Mary Krogh had just accepted a donation of bakery styled stainless steel shelving that she was sharing with districts a and b. Two calls later we were picking up this unit, which will insure that no food, even dog and cat food is stored on or near the floor. These four, 2’ X 5’ shelves means 40 more square feet of food storage.
Finding out last month that libraries use and need padded envelopes after we own thousands of them? Very fortuitous. Finding the perfect food storage shelf unit on a day when we discover a need for one at a local food pantry? Also fortuitous. Being part of an organization that makes these small miracles possible with an uncanny regularity? Priceless.
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