In August 2021, our food bank helped 266 families. That breaks down as: 182 single-person households50 two-person households20 three-person households8 four-person households3 five-person households3 six-person households Based on the costs of each package (if you missed our post breaking it down, check it out here), that works out to: Single person households = $7,007Two-person households = Read More
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Seeking volunteers for Big Blue Food Drive
We are currently seeking volunteers to help with this year’s event on September 25. We need help with three tasks for the Big Blue Food Drive: Drivers/RunnersOur driver/runner pairs are assigned a pre-determined route to collect the curbside donations. These volunteers should arrive at St. Vincent Place by no later than 9:45 am the day Read More
ISO Volunteers for Lunches for Learning
We’re looking for some volunteers for Lunches for Learning for the upcoming school year to help with: picking up the grocery order (Thursday mornings) putting together the food packages (Thursday afternoons) delivering the packages (Friday, morning or afternoon) You can volunteer to help with any of these tasks – you’re not obligated to help with Read More
Food bank access
As of September 1, food bank clients will again need to wait 2 months between food bank visits. The food bank remains open on Wednesdays 4:30 to 7 and Saturdays 11:30 to 2. (*Note that we had originally stated this would begin on October 1 but after further discussions with our food bank coordinator, we’ve Read More
July Food Bank Stats
In July 2021, our food bank helped 237 families. That breaks down as: 164 single-person households46 two-person households13 three-person households10 four-person households2 five-person households2 six-person households Based on the costs of each package (if you missed our last post breaking it down, check it out here), that works out to: Single person households = $6,314Two-person households Read More
July Soup Kitchen Stats
In July, our soup kitchen served 1,069 meals, of which 21 went to children. Thank you to our Soup Kitchen teams who put in the hard work to serve so many meals in July! O’Sullivan Funeral Home Team O’Brien Bethel Bible Chapel Team Ruscio Team Rita Bethany Baptist Church Emmaus Anglican Church Mother Theresa Conference
Deanna Dalla-Vicenza, a volunteer extraordinaire
Deanna Dalla-Vicenza has been a part of St. Vincent Place since the beginning. She was part of the group of volunteers who scrubbed and painted the food bank and soup kitchen to prepare the building for opening as a newly-minted charity. She’s volunteered on the front lines in the food bank and soup kitchen, and Read More
Thrift Store will start accepting donations by appointment
On August 16, the thrift store will begin accepting donations, but by appointment only. To set up your appointment, call the thrift store during its open hours – Monday to Friday 11-3 – at 705-541-9478. Appointments will only be available from Monday to Thursday. If you arrange an appointment that you can’t keep, please be Read More
Thrift Store still not accepting clothing donations
We want to thank everyone who has reached out to us recently interested in donating clothing to our thrift store. Unfortunately, our storage areas are still just too full to be able to accept any further clothing donations at this time. If you’re able to hold onto them for a few weeks, we hope to Read More
June Soup Kitchen Stats
In June, our soup kitchen served 1,084 meals, of which 21 went to children. Thank you to the soup kitchen teams who served meals in June: Team Burzese/Stefanizzi Team Laidlaw Paciocco Murphy & Friends Knights of Columbus (two teams) CSJ Associates Team BDO Team St. Basil’s