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PA WORKWEAR Program to Remain Open!
Good news! We have received official notice from the state that the funding for all PA WORKWEAR programs has been renewed! Thank you for your prayers and thoughts as we, alongside other agencies, fought to keep a program that has assisted and will assist so many.
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The staff members here at the Center are always grateful for the helping hands that come to the soup kitchen in the second week of each month and assist us with putting together our bags for the senior citizens on our food program, who are unable to come in person on Food Day. Because of these groups who pack bags with us, we are able to deliver food to those who are not physically able to get here and pick it up. In April, our baggers were students from the Hermitage Middle School student council. Do they look familiar? They were here at Christmas too, working behind the tables and taking parents around the room to gather up Christmas presents for their children on Toy Day! Once again they were excellent, and we hope they will come back in the future and volunteer again.
April 22, in addition to being Good Friday, was also Earth Day, a chance to celebrate the beauty of the world around us and to help maintain that beauty. On the 15th, POPC staff members put on their working gloves and cleaned up the property, pulling weeds in the grotto garden, picking up any wayward garbage in the grass or along the sidewalk, and in general making room for springtime to come in its fullest.
As a complement to all the cleaning-up, the loading dock area features a new section of landscaping, a memorial garden dedicated to Phyllis Gallant, a Center staff member who passed away in 2009. The garden features small shrubs and a beautiful flowering tree, set in a base of large stones. Cottage Gardens donated their design time and effort to this project, and it is clear they put their all into creating this beautiful memorial space.
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