Who We Serve
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- Residents of all ages living in Kent County
- People with disabilities
- Low income elderly
- Children in low-income households
- Families with part-time or low paying jobs
- Unemployed men and women
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What We Give
A qualifying family will receive three or more bags every two weeks if needed:
including plenty of fresh produce, meat and fish, butter, cheese, eggs, non-perishable foods, and everyday items needed by all.
Items such as: toilet paper, soap, toothpaste and other personal products.
New Program Director
We are so pleased to introduce you to our new Program Director: Susan Caswell. She is a delight and has taken on this role with her trademark joy and excellence.
She has always tried to be involved in some form of committee/church service and has a desire and obligation to share with those less fortunate. Sue has served on the Community Food Pantry Board, most specifically involved with our efforts to serve children.
Sue has had a dual career, first in healthcare administration and then as an educator. She has taught all levels of students in both private and public schools. She spent her formative years in Turkey. It taught her the value of different cultures and a desire to know people from all over the world.
An interesting tidbit: Sue attended a boys’ prep school in Western Massachusetts. It was at the time when girls’ and boys’ schools had declining enrollments because kids did not want to go to gender specific schools. Five faculty daughters were invited to attend as guinea pigs to see what it was like to have girls on campus. Needless to say, she did not play on the football team. She did mention that the school merged with a nearby girls’ school so they must have been a least somewhat acceptable.
Sue has a wonderful husband Lansing, who is a professor at WAC, a son, Rob, a Thai daughter-in-law, Roj, and a sweet granddaughter, Hannah. She also has four dogs and six cats.
Her hobbies are sewing, cooking, gardening, kayaking, knitting, reading.
We hope you will welcome her with much love.
Passing of Miriam Greenlee
2019-2020 Empty Bowls & Support for the Food Pantry
The Community Food Pantry exists because our community provides the resources needed to obtain the food and run the Pantry week after week for the past 28 years!
Once again, the Pantry is honored to be the recipients of proceeds from Kent School’s Fourth Annual Empty Bowls Event held at the school on Friday, November 8, 2019.
Kent School’s art teacher, Pat Parkhurst has stated, “This is our third year completing the Empty Bowls project with our students. It is a great example of our School’s mission in practice. The students’ work is not only artistically excellent, they are all practicing moral excellence by offering their pieces to support the Kent County Food Pantry.”
This year, talented and dedicated Kent County residents will have presented three “empty bowls” events. These events have the common goal of raising awareness of the hunger in our county and providing the means for people to help put food on the tables of those who are in need.
If you, the reader, have never attended one of the following events, mark your calendars for the future events. Not only are the pottery bowls a meaningful addition to your home, but the food, the camaraderie and the chance to support the Pantry are reasons to attend.
Chestertown RiverArts, under the leadership of Marilee Schumann and the RiverArts Clay Studio, holds their Empty Bowls event in the spring each year.
Soup-er Bowl at Kent County High School, is held in March each year. It is co-chaired by art teacher Stephanie Spence along with the National Art Honor Society students.
Therefore, young people, high school students, and adults all have the opportunity to participate and make a difference in Kent County.