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Dear Members
"LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF" There are many inspirational stories of people living
the gospel. As a regular part of the newsletter, I would like to
share
their stories. Please let me know of "acts of charity" you would
like
included. Members
are doing wonderful deeds
all
the time.
Recently a young couple of modest means made a
substantial donation to our Society. It was evident they had
sacrificed every day to be able to write that check. As an
example, on
the day they dropped the check off, the wife said very matter
of fact
they would go home for soup and sandwiches rather than go out for
dinner. They had made the choice to help others.
Another time, a member commented to a St. Denis
parishioner that the food closet was out of cereal and how detrimental
that was. The next thing she knew this wonderful person was
pulling
out unopened boxes of cereal from her cupboard to give the
closet.
There was no hesitation, just unselfish action.
Please remind all our senior clients that the open
enrollment for Medicare Part D (prescriptions) begins November 15, 2006
and ends 6 weeks later. (They should have received a
card from
Medicare.) To obtain enrollment information and guidance, they
should
call:
Dutchess County Office for the
Aging 845/486-2555
This Agency has many other programs, also.
Donna Carroll, Senior Consumer Outreach Representative
for Central Hudson, spoke at a 2005 SVDP meeting and has been
instrumental in helping several of our clients with CH bills.
Donna
Carroll
845/486-5414
Hudson River Housing Inc. For clients with housing
issues:
Day
number 845/454-5176
Emergency Off hours
number
845/471-8454
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Lastly, the Community Action Partnership has centers in
Poughkeepsie, Red Hook, Beacon and Dover. They oversee many
programs
as listed below:
Poughkeepsie
Number
845/452-5104
Beacon
Number
845/831-2620
They will help with:
1. Central Hudson bill ( requirements)
2. Fuel Oil Club
3. HEAP application
4. Energy crisis intervention
5. Weatherization/ Heating Equipment Replacement
6. Grants for home energy conservation
7. Big Brother/ Big Sister of DC
8. Extra Helpings Program
9. Food Pantry on site
10. Family & Child Health Plus
11. Food Stamp Screening
12. Prescription Drug Plan
13. Thrift shop
14. Community
Action partnership
has joined with the Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union to match up to
$150. if a client opens a savings account to use for holiday expenses
(Christmas Club). If the client puts in 150.00 they would end up
with
300.
The Beacon site has a mid-day meal available.
Joanne Bunnell has been gathering information on food
pantries in Dutchess County which I will put in the next
newsletter.
Also, Nick Dono will continue to update the resource page on our
web
site and will post a printed copy in the pantry.
See everyone at our November 8th meeting in our new
meeting room.
PLEASE NOTE OUR CHANGE IN MEETING ROOMS.
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October 11, 2006 Carole opened the meeting at 7:08 pm with a reading from Deuteronomy chapter 15 verses 7-10. The minutes were read by Barbara Yannaco; accepted by Kay Coyle; and seconded by Kathy Palmer. In attendance were: Kay Coyle, Kathy Palmer, Linda Hunt, Bucky and Laura Ryan, Terry Weber, Anne Nardelli, Betty Riggio, Marlene Stayer, Chris Bledsoe, Bill and Carole Grafer, Jack Kiely, Nick Dono, Barbara Yannaco, Ron Stoltzfus, Jim Falanga, Linda Boysen, Ed and Diane Ryan, and JoAnn DiSalvo. Our HPNAP report for September 2006: We served 65 households which included 99 children, 108 adults, and 14 elderly. This is a 30% increase over September 2005. Lorraine Klara of the Riverbank Banjo Band was very happy with our idea to use the money they donated to us for coats, hats, and boots for some of our client children. Carole has already sent out a thank you. Lorraine also mentioned that we are in line to receive another donation next year. Carole spoke to Jim Donnellan who suggested that we change our meeting place to the convent meeting room. Everyone present thought that this was a good idea so Carole will get back to Jim and make the necessary arrangements. We have been getting a lot of emergency food requests from one area. Carole spoke to Susan who is the interim director of the Community Action Partnership about this. She understands that we will help anyone in a real emergency but that we are really here to provide for the people living in our geographic area. This should slow down the number of these calls. |
We have been having trouble getting many of the things we need from the food bank. Carole spoke with Jill Dunn at the food bank. She said that they will try to supply us with more of what we need. We will be placing a call to Sean a week before we plan to go shopping and he will try to get us what we need .Carole and Bill will be going to the food bank to pick up six cases of ground beef on Friday October 13th. Ground beef has been one of the items we have had trouble getting. We will be receiving an additional $200.00 in Partners in Caring. This will be an additional 34 cases of food which we will have to pick up on a separate day. Submitted by Barbara Yannaco
SVDP Meeting Schedule December 13, 2006 January 10, 2007 February 14, 2007 March 14, 2007 Our meetings are open to all and we welcome new members. We meet in St. Columba CONVENT MEETING ROOM. LINDA'S CORNER
So far I am filling 109 baskets. Drop off of baskets is November 19th from 10:00 to 12:00 and disbursement of baskets is 1:30. There are still many baskets to fill. I have noticed families that used to give large baskets are now only doing small families. IF A REPRESENTATIVE HAS ANY CHANGES TO MAKE OR IF THEIR CLIENTS DO NOT NEED A BASKET, PLEASE LET ME KNOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. IF I DON'T HEAR FROM YOU, I WILL ASSUME YOUR CLIENTS DO NOT NEED A BASKET. Thank you. |