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Atlantis Charter School Students Donate Can Goods for CFC’s Food Pantry

Students and teachers of the Atlantis Charter School collected can goods for CFC’s Food Pantry during the week ending November 26th. The students brought in cans from their home pantries so other families could share some non-perishables throughout the holiday season.

Tyler Massey (Food Pantry Coordinator Barbara Travis grandson) with help from his father Doug delivered the canned goods to CFC headquarters on Griffin St.

CFC's Crystal Arpa and Tyler Massey displaying some of the donated food

The canned goods will be disseminated to families that participate in CFC’s monthly distribution of food through the food pantry.

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CFC Distributes 350 Turkeys Baskets to Area Families

Turkeys, and everything else that a family might need to prepare a Thanksgiving dinner, were distributed by CFC to 350 families on November 10, 2010. Once again, Citizens for Citizens, Inc. made it possible for local, low-income families to have a Thanksgiving dinner in their home.

CFC Community Organizer, Barbara Travis and the hard-working Food Pantry Coordinator, Crystal Arpa synchronized the distribution of the turkeys with a great deal of help from the young people of CFC’s Family Planning, “Making Proud Choices” group. During the day on November 10, the turkeys arrived by truck and were offloaded into the main hall of CFC’s Griffin St. headquarters, along with fresh vegetables, stuffing mix and other items that make a Thanksgiving dinner delicious and memorable.

Volunteers from "Making Proud Choices" loading bags with frozen turkeys

Barbara Travis began making telephone calls to the recipient families, to inform them that the dinners would be ready for distribution at 5:00 P.M. By 4:30 PM, a waiting line had started to form for the dinner distribution, and it was 8:00 PM before the final dinner was given out.

Barbara arranging for pick up of Thanksgiving dinners

Throughout the afternoon, Crystal Arpa and any CFC staffer with a little spare time helped arrange the dinner items and packed them in bags for families to carry home for Thanksgiving.