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Food pantry celebrates 20 years with challenge |
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Tuesday, March 25 2008 |
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By RUTH STANLEY Managing editor For 20 years, Susan Butcher has helped keep food on the table for South Whitley area residents. As director of the South Whitley food pantry for 20 years, since its inception in 1988, Butcher has helped many families by delivering a week’s worth of groceries, including pet food, to families in need. As Butcher celebrates her 20th anniversary as the director, local businesses are in the midst of a collection competition to gather food, staples and nonperishable items to stock the pantry. South Whitley’s three largest employers, Shindigz/Stumps, Fox Products and Whitley Manufacturing have challenged each other to see which company can collect the most. Several in-house, interdepartmental challenges are also being conducted to spur donations. The company that donates the most will receive a plaque and bragging rights. The public is also invited to participate in filling the pantry by dropping off donations from 3 to 7 p.m. on April 1 at the Cleveland Township fire station. Anyone who wishes to donate but is unable to get to the fire station during the drive, may call 723-6204 for pickup. Butcher’s role with the food pantry started when the Collamer Church of God saw a need for a local food pantry. The church dedicated a space in a classroom to store food, but soon outgrew the classroom. The church moved the pantry to its fellowship hall. In the late ’90s the pantry moved to its location on Market St. in South Whitley where it resides today. Butcher has volunteered her services to oversee the food pantry partly because she remembers a time when she too needed help providing food for her family, and now sees her involvement as a way of giving back. Butcher says the South Whitley community has always been very supportive of its food bank and, in addition to regular donations, answers the call when emergencies arrive or when supplies run low. She tries to keep food waste to a minimum by assembling the food boxes herself and delivering them. She takes into account any special food needs that a family may have when assembling the boxes.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, March 26 2008 )
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| | | |  | | My Mom (Elly Crawford) would always make this Cranberry Salad, to die for. The year she passed away I had tried my mother-in-laws and others but never the same as my Mom's. A year had went by and I had Looked and Looked for her recipe in her old fashion Tin recipe box. Could not find it. I thought, wow was this like her Famous Potato Salad, In her head and never wrote down. Silly I know But as I searched thru her tin recipe box again, I made sure I put each hand wrote card back where she had kept it. I wanted to make sure it was Just like my mom had always had it and left it. I kept look one at a time, And low and behold stuck between two cards was the recipe, I sat and held it as the tears ran down my face. I had found it and was finally going to have Mom's Cranberry Salad. I called My Dad, Cecil and said over 20 times, " Dad I found it Dad I found it!" I then prayed and ask Mom, OK come on help me make this just like you did. And I guess Mom heard me cause the 2nd and 3rd Thanksgiving without my Mom I had "Mom's Cranberry Salad" and I will again this year and years to come. Thanks Mom I love you- Sheryl xoxo P.S. You ask? Well share this recipe.... Umm, I think NOT, Took me to long to find it. - Sheryl Hackett (Churubusco, IN) My late grandmother, Margarette Ruthsatz always made scalloped oysters for the holidays. The recipe would be similar to scalloped corn but instead of corn,oysters.We always hoped for left-overs and often would sneak it cold from the fridge! Someone brings this dish every year. - Pam Sorg (Columbia City, IN) I love Thanksgiving. All my family get together at my mom and dad's. My daughters and I usually go early to help Mom get the dinner ready, but she does most of it. We eat about one and are all stuffed. After clean up we wait for the paper so my sister and I can scope out all the sales for the next day which we call Jackie and Laura's Big Adventure. It is the one day that we just spend time together and are amused with all the shoppers going crazy for that perfect Christmas gift. - Jackie White (Columbia City, IN) |
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