DONATIONS......DONATIONS !

The Food Pantry has received quite a few donations the last 2 months. Hollis Shults Sr. gave money. Jean and Joe McWilliams cleaned out their travel trailer and gave us food. Beverly Brown from Cottonwood brought us spaghetti and sauces. Vickie and Dean Dillard gave us pork meat. Frankie Hyles donated deer sausage, pork and beef meat. Many thanks to the Cottonwood community for collecting seven grocery bags of food for us at their 4th of July celebration. The Baptist church gave us bread. These donations help us accomplish our mission to "feed our flock". Those who regularly help sack and deliver on the first and last Wednesdays of each month are Tom and Arlene Stephenson, Sharon Ames, and Johnnie Bland. We welcome anyone who would like to volunteer. Just show up at 8am on those Wednesdays.

I attended the mandatory Food Bank Agency meeting in Abilene in May and learned the new rules and financial guidelines. Of course there is more paperwork required. All of our clients filled out the new certification forms in June and July. We are serving an average of 40 families consisting of 80 people each month. There is a definate need in Cross Plains and we are filling it the best we can.

We always need paper sacks. Items needed are peanut butter and cereal.

Judy Porter, food pantry director