To volunteer Delivery DRIVERS RE: Saturday, December 19

Dear Food for Friends Volunteer:

I plan to schedule you to deliver meals on Saturday morning, December 19.

If you not already done so, on Saturday I will ask you to complete a form that will authorize Center Church to conduct a Criminal Offender Record Information (C.O.R.I) check.  Please bring your driver’s license.

By the Wednesday preceding our November delivery, I was able to give you your route assignment.  I will not have the routes worked out until Thursday or Friday.  However, I want to send you this email reminder tonight.  I will send you your route assignment on Thursday or Friday.  For those of you who drove in November or October, your assignment will be similar or identical on December 19.

I took the liberty to post some photos from our November delivery day at http://southhadleygranbyfoodforfriends.blogspot.com/.  If a photo of you is there, and you do not want it there, please tell me, and I will remove it.

Please respond to this email so that I can plan on you, or so that if necessary, I can find a replacement for you.

Thank you for volunteering! Please arrive at Center Church by 11 am. I look forward to seeing you on Saturday morning.

- Bob Judge
BobJudge@comcast.net
413-351-2309

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This email has been sent to:
Sarah Baughman
Elizabeth Bowdan
Greer Clarke
Suzanne Cordes
Carolyn Deren
Jim Dunn
Martha Dunn
Sarah Etelman
Bill Foley
Joan Vohl Hamilton
Elisa Loeser
Rich Lovelace
Bruce Maccullagh
Susan Newton
Chloe Saabs
Karen Saabs
Katherine Washburn
Kay Washburn

This weekend is the one!

From: Gail Mailhott-Foster [mailto:gemfoster@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 8:19 PM

Hello all you wonderful kitchen workers.  It is that Saturday again. This is what we will need for help this weekend.  On Friday afternoon to helpers in the kitchen from 3 to 5 will be most helpful.  On Saturday morning, I will need 3 helpers at 8:00 and 2 for cleanup at 11:00.  Please email me back or call me or text me at 413 575-1587.  I will not be to answer the phone between 8 and 3 so if you call, leave a message. 

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Enjoy the day
Gail

Countdown to Meal Prep 12/19

Hello Coordinators,

Thanks to all of you for your efforts this past week to prepare for our next meal on Saturday.

Steve let me know that the cooks have set the menu:

Sat.
Roast Pork
Rice
Corn
Apple Sauce
Dinner Roll

Sun.
Turkey / Meatloaf Sandwich
Pineapple

Bev is having her bakers make cherry bars and assorted Christmas cookies.

Bobbie has confirmed the packing supplies.

Allan will report on the budget tonight; Steve reported that the Lutheran church will be sending a check this week.  Steve is also working on a cabinet, but will hold off on pots and pans.

Sarah will deliver cards made by her Daisy troop on Thursday and place them outside the kitchen on the table in Fellowship Hall.

I will be purchasing some additional dish washing soap and scrub sponges.  I have a large Christmas playlist loaded on my iPod!

The next big step is to get the client delivery list from Kathleen; and then let everyone know the exact count.  Kathleen, it would be helpful on a monthly basis to know how many people there are for St. Theresa's week, just to have some guidance on how many meals we can expect, a little ahead of time.

Please let me know if you are having any issues or concerns.

Thanks,
Charlotte

Take and Eat Meals Ministry - Berkshire County and Pioneer Valley (Greenfield/Turners Falls - Chicopee - Ludlow - Easthampton - Holyoke - Hadley/N. Hadley - S. Hadley/Granby)

TAKE AND EAT, INC  PEOPLE FEEDING PEOPLE"

A Blessed Thanksgiving to each of the Coordinators and all of your Team Ministry Members at The Weekend Meals Ministry sites throughout Berkshire County and the Pioneer Valley!  Deacon Frank and I, along with all of the over 1,700 clients and their caregivers and family members, count each of you as a special blessing in our lives.  You are individually and collectively truly demonstrating "putting shoes on the Gospel message" through your beautiful works of charity in this ministry to our homebound seniors…you have touched many, many lives in multiple ways – spiritually and physically…you epitomize Blessed Teresa's message of "do small things with great love"…thank you and God Bless you and your family…

I am attaching the 2010 Calendar for each of your sites.  Essentially, I have mirrored what you committed to when your team entered this ministry. In those instances where your scheduled weekend falls on a 3 day holiday weekend that is identified on the spreadsheet.

I am requesting the Coordinators review this schedule and book those dates with your kitchen and advise appropriate Parish staff/committees.  Should it be necessary to do a schedule change due to a conflict, please let me know ASAP.  As you can appreciate, once this information is shared with the various Elder Services agencies, clients and posted on the web site (www.takeandeat.org), those dates are "in stone".  We wish to finalize this calendar by December 10, 2009 so please let me know prior to that date if you have any questions, etc.

Once again, thank you and may the coming year be a blessed, peace-filled and bountiful year ahead…and we ask you to please keep the Take and Eat Program, all of its clients and volunteers in your prayers as we go forward maintaining and  expanding this Ministry during this New Year…in closing, we offer the following prayer for you on this Day of Thanksgiving…Blessings, Kathleen and Deacon Frank

 

Thank you for the blessings that you give to us each day; For friends and family we hold dear, for all you send our way. We ask that you will guide us well, in everything we do, And pray we never will forget these blessings came from you. Amen.

From Susan Newton of S. Hadley, a Food For Friends volunteer - See below or click HERE

From: Susan Newton
Date: Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:51 AM
Subject: Obama Administration Calls on Americans to Help Fight Hunger
To: Bob Judge <BobJudge@comcast.net>

Hi Bob, I thought you mind find this link of interest and possible use on the "Food for Friends" blog:  http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/index.php?id=10256.  I'm assuming it's fully accessible, but let me know if not.
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Susan Newton
Associate Director for Research
Center for Public Policy and Administration
University of Massachusetts Amherst
404 Thompson Hall
Amherst, MA  01003
http://www.masspolicy.org

From the Easthampton Council on Aging

ANNOUNCING TAKE AND EAT, INC.:  Highland Valley Elder Services and Take and Eat, Inc. are pleased to inform you that volunteers from the Immaculate Conception Church in Easthampton will be preparing and delivering free, hot, nutritious meals to homebound seniors in Easthampton.  These meals will be prepared and delivered the 4th Saturday of each month and will consist of one meal for Saturday and one meal for Sunday.   Meals will be delivered between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.  If you are interested in receiving these Saturday home delivered meals from Immaculate Conception, please contact the Enrichment Center for the necessary paperwork or call Kathleen Ryan of the Take and Eat Program at 413-664-1041.

Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) Request Form - Click below or here