We are so grateful to our friends at St Susanna for the amazingly generous donation!
Four grocery carts and three flat hand-trucks overflowing with personal care and cleaning supplies. Our clients will be so happy to receive these items which they can’t buy with SNAP (food stamp) benefits.
Thanks to Mary Jo & Jessica for the collection and delivery, too!
Longtime volunteers from Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church helped with the backpack drive organized by Dan P.
A new record: 108 backpacks, as well as school supplies to go in them! Thank you!
Fresh on the heels of the announcement from Cincinnati Public Schools about their Summer Breakfast & Lunch program, the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County is promoting their own Summer Meal Program taking place from June 4 through August 3* at select library branches.
The Summer Food Service Program is sponsored by the USDA and Ohio Department of Education. Meals are provided in partnership with UMC Food Ministry and Mt. Healthy City Schools.
*There will be no meals on Wednesday, July 4 due to the Fourth of July holiday.
Meals and snacks will be served at the following locations:
Cincinnati Public Schools has announced a free breakfast and lunch program for children in the school district.
CPS will sponsor the federally funded Summer Food Service Program for Children from June 4 to August 3, 2018, at schools, recreation centers and other locations around the district.
Free breakfast and lunch meals will be available Monday through Friday to children 18 years of age and under, or to anyone between the ages of 19 and 21 who is determined by a state or local public-educational agency to be mentally or physically disabled.
To receive a free meal, come to a serving site 15 minutes before the serving time; no registration needed. All meals must be eaten at the site.
Meals will be provided at the sites and times posted on the CPS website.
For more information, click on the following link: https://www.cps-k12.org/news/whats-new/cps-provides-free-breakfast-and-lunch-during-summer-break
It will soon be planting season in Cincinnati!
If you would like to plant your garden space with extra produce, we’d be happy to share some of it with our clients.
We’re open to serve clients on Monday and Tuesday evenings, so fresh produce donations brought to SMSG on Sunday, or to the Pantry on Monday/Tuesday mornings could be on a hungry family’s table that night!
New Floor & Desks:
Maddie Cimorell, a senior at Mount Notre Dame High School, has been coming to the food pantry for the past six years with her family to volunteer for the Christmas celebration.
“I always look forward to going because I love working with my cousins and picking out gifts for families and finding super cool toys for the kids,” said Maddie. “My favorite part is walking a bag full of presents into the main room and seeing the reactions of those who are on the receiving end of my gift choices.”
When Maddie was assigned a senior project she immediately thought of the pantry and wanted to help it grow even more. She put in a lot of hard work planning, painting, and was instrumental in getting the food pantry a new floor and desks, which will be installed soon. “It was a lot of hard work and planning but I think everything has paid off and I hope that everyone else will enjoy the changes!” said Maddie.
Thank you Maddie! Clients and volunteers appreciate your dedication to the pantry.
New Ramp:
The ramp at the entrance of the pantry helps bring numerous carts of food into the pantry throughout the year. It also helps make entering and exiting the pantry easier for our volunteers and clients.
The ramp was refurbished this fall and it is now wider and more user-friendly.