The 2014 Hurricane season officially begins June 1. This information is just so much trivia to many. However, people in the Ulster County pantry world are a little antsy. It’s understandable. We, those of us who live in this area, haven’t gotten over the last two hurricanes. Mold and rot continue to advance on residential and commercial buildings at a fast clip while funds for repairs and replacements of damaged/destroyed buildings and vehicles have yet to become a reality for many. People left homeless, jobless, and vehicleless feel to their bones that nothing is ever going to be done to repair/replace things damaged and ruined. (Some people include their lives in the “ruined” category.)
There are deniers who won’t wrap their heads around another hurricane. After all, two horrendous weather events, each producing floods of Biblical proportions are enough. Right? Reservoir Food Pantry volunteers know what we’re up against. After all, we were the deniers after Irene and learned our lesson with Sandy. Now we prepare to feed those affected by the next “big one” – whenever it hits.
We’re working feverishly: planning, scheduling, and purchasing food to distribute to people. We’re filling food boxes to distribute. Each contains a three-day supply of canned food for one person. If you contact us and have four people in your household, you’ll receive four boxes.
Packing the food is easy.
Distributing the food is easy.
It’s the getting part that’s hard. For that we need money to buy the food we put in each box.
Can you help?
Please send a check to Reservoir Food Pantry, P.O.Box 245, Boiceville, New York, 12412.
Or get us a gift certificate at the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley. Call 845-534-5344 and tell the person who answers the phone that you want to donate money to the Reservoir Food Pantry, agency number 2539f. That call will get us the most food for the money. Food at the Food Bank is only sixteen cents per pound, making a can of soup cost sixteen cents, for example.
If you access the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley throughwww.foodbankofhudsonvalley.org, the donate button looms large on the right side of the first page of the website. You can’t miss it! Again, please specify your donation goes to agency 2539f, reservoir Food Pantry.
And, finally, to personally choose the disaster relief foods you give to the Reservoir Food Pantry, drop them off at the Olive Town offices or at the Community Bank in Boiceville.
However you choose to share, none of your donations will pay for rent or salaries. And, most important, this disaster food will be in the hands of the victims before any other food sent in from outside sources.
Thanks again.
Peace and food for all.
There are deniers who won’t wrap their heads around another hurricane. After all, two horrendous weather events, each producing floods of Biblical proportions are enough. Right? Reservoir Food Pantry volunteers know what we’re up against. After all, we were the deniers after Irene and learned our lesson with Sandy. Now we prepare to feed those affected by the next “big one” – whenever it hits.
We’re working feverishly: planning, scheduling, and purchasing food to distribute to people. We’re filling food boxes to distribute. Each contains a three-day supply of canned food for one person. If you contact us and have four people in your household, you’ll receive four boxes.
Packing the food is easy.
Distributing the food is easy.
It’s the getting part that’s hard. For that we need money to buy the food we put in each box.
Can you help?
Please send a check to Reservoir Food Pantry, P.O.Box 245, Boiceville, New York, 12412.
Or get us a gift certificate at the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley. Call 845-534-5344 and tell the person who answers the phone that you want to donate money to the Reservoir Food Pantry, agency number 2539f. That call will get us the most food for the money. Food at the Food Bank is only sixteen cents per pound, making a can of soup cost sixteen cents, for example.
If you access the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley throughwww.foodbankofhudsonvalley.org, the donate button looms large on the right side of the first page of the website. You can’t miss it! Again, please specify your donation goes to agency 2539f, reservoir Food Pantry.
And, finally, to personally choose the disaster relief foods you give to the Reservoir Food Pantry, drop them off at the Olive Town offices or at the Community Bank in Boiceville.
However you choose to share, none of your donations will pay for rent or salaries. And, most important, this disaster food will be in the hands of the victims before any other food sent in from outside sources.
Thanks again.
Peace and food for all.
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