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Volume 8 Issue 7 July 1, 2015

Dear Friends of the Community Center,

May and June have been extremely hectic months. My apologies for not having a newsletter in the mail last month. I have been very busy with fundraisers for the food pantries and I also had to have two sur-geries in the past few weeks. I know many of you wait for the news-letter in the mail and on-line. If you need to check dates on anything and your newsletter has not arrived, please feel free to call me at any time and I will be happy to answer any questions. Please also check our Facebook page as I do try to post all of the upcoming events there.

We held the “Rock out Hunger for Kids” Concert on June 27th and had to shorten our concert time due to the rain. We are planning to hold another concert in August. Please watch for more details. My deepest appreciation to Tom McCusker and A.J. Parrish for doing a wonderful job as DJ’s for the concert! The children enjoyed the free face painting and tattoos and of course the terrific ice cream donated by Maple Valley Creamery! Many thanks to all our sponsors: Knight Productions, Legends Entertainment, Big E’s Supermarket, Easthampton Haunted House, Easthampton Diner, Dunkin Do-nuts, Subway of Southampton, Party Patrol Rentals of Southampton, Maple Valley Creamery, and Mantis Graphics. It was a wonderful day for kids!

Robin

SUMMER KID’S BAGS PROGRAM

Children between the ages of 1 and 18 that receive free or reduced priced

breakfast or lunch at school, or who’s family receives, WIC,

SNAP benefits, MA Health bene-fits, SSI, SSDI, or fuel assistance

are eligible to receive a weekly bag of groceries from the Kid’s Pantry

Program.

Please call the office at 527-5240 or stop by if you have any ques-

tions about your fami-ly eligibility.

Many thanks to Cooley Dickinson Hospital for a grant to provide fresh fruit each week

for our Kid’s Bag Program. Each of the chil-dren will receive fruit to go along with their

grocery bags!

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Community Care Kitchen Dinners

July 7th

Hamburg or

Hot Dog w/roll

Baked Beans

Cole Slaw

Red, White and Blueberry Pie with

ice cream

July 28th

Meatball or Sausage Grinders

Potato Chips

Ice Cream donated from our friends at Calvin

Coolidge Rehabilita-tion Facility

Meals served from 4:30– 6 PM Rolls & Butter, Juice & Coffee Served with all meals

Wednesday Morning

Ladies Group will continue to meet on

Wednesday morning from 9 AM to 11 AM.

We are always looking for new helpers to knit and crochet– stop

in and join us!

On Going Here at Your Center:

Tae Kwon Do Class Monday and

Thursday nights from 6 to 8:30 PM

Cost $5.00 per class

Summer Line Dancing– Class Schedule

Friday 9:30 to 11 AM

Landscape painting class with Carl Poole.

Bob Ross style of painting. July 21st

The class costs $20.00 plus supplies.

Clothing Closet

Hours are Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday 9 AM until Noon and

Monday, Wednesday evening 4-7 PM

Food Pantry/Gluten Free Pantry

Monday 9AM—Noon & 4—7 PM

Wednesday 9AM—Noon & 4—7 PM

Board Game Thursdays

Scrabble Club and

Chinese Mah Jong

Groups meet from 9:30 AM to Noon.

TOPS (Take off Pounds Sensibly) Meets every Wednesday from 6:30 to 8 PM. Come and learn a sensible way to healthy living. For more information call Dolores at (413)- 203-1457.

Pitch Club - Monday,

Wednesday and Friday 9 AM until Noon

July 14th

Chef Salad

(Turkey, ham, roast beef rolls and hard boiled

egg)

Assorted Cream Pies

Easthampton Community Center

Board of Directors

meeting will be held Thursday, July 23rd at 1 PM.

If you have any concerns and would like to be placed on the agenda, please call the office at

527-5240.

THANKS FOR THE ALL STAR DONATIONS To all of our friends at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church and Our Lady of the Valley Parish for their continued support for our Food Pantry. Trinity Lutheran Church, First Congregational Church of Southamp-ton, Ferry St. Package Store, Christ United Methodist Church, and the Westhampton Council on Aging, as always the foodstuffs you donate help so very much!

Thank you to Donald Payson; Dave and Melissa Fagnand; Clem Couchon; Gene and Anne DeFilippo; Doug and Judy Purcell; Nancy LaFleur, Donna Cushing, A-Z Storage (David, Melissa and Thomas Boyle) and Taralinkof family for your continued monthly support !

Thank You to Tandem Bagel for their donation of bagels to our Food Pantry and to Small Oven Bakery for their wonderful donation of bread, croissants and scones. They are very much enjoyed!

Many thanks to Big Y and the Southampton Women’s Club for collecting food donations at the Big Y Southampton. All of the cans and boxes collected at Big Y and Big E’s Supermarket are a big help to our Food Pantry Program– Thank You All!

Many thanks to St. Peters Lutheran Church in Holyoke, for their generous donation of food for the pantry. Thanks to the Curran Family for collecting foodstuffs and monetary donations for the pantry at Kevin’s Eagle Scout Ceremony. Kevin has been volunteer-ing at the Food Pantry for quite a while and we are very proud of all his accomplishments.

There are so many people to thank for the donations to our Food Pantry Program in the past month. Special thanks to Seth Lepore, for arranging the crowd funding donation site on our facebook page. We received donations totaling $12,810. between on-line donations and donations dropped off here at the Center! This assures that the Sum-mer Kid Bag Program will continue. Many businesses donated during Cultural Chaos and after as well. Special thanks to The Platinum Pony, MaryAnn’s Dance and More, Canal Bowling Lanes, Manhan Café, and Vortex Dance Fitness Studio.

Thank you for sharing with your neighbors.

It is truly appreciated!

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Travel News

July 16th– Foxwoods Casino—Bus departs at 8 AM and returns at 6:30 PM $30. per person

August 2nd- Newport Play-house Lobsterfest! Your fa-vorite summertime lobsterfest. Luncheon, show, cabaret, bus, taxes, and gratuity included. The play is “Kill Joy”. Carol is being driven crazy by her ex-husband and his new wife who own a pasta restaurant. Matters get complicated when Carol has an affair with her husband’s law-yer! $124 per person

August 13th Foxwood Casino– Bus departs 8 AM

returns at 6:30 PM $30.00 per person

October 11-12th Turning Stone Resort and Casino– Tour includes

one night at the resort, motor-coach, baggage service, meal credits, gaming package, all taxes and gratuities. $160 per person, double occupancy.

Radio City Rockettes– Christmas Spectacular Friday, Nov 20th-Show at

2 PM, luncheon in NY City prior to the show. $174. pp

Thursday, Dec 3rd-Show only at 5 PM. $149. pp.

Please call the office at 527-5240 for your reservations.

Watch for more info and date for our

BOWL –A –THON

To be held at Canal Bowling Lanes in August. Start getting your team ready now.

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Happy July from Mary Newton !

about blow candles

canvas cook out crowd dike

Daley Field drum Easthampton eat

end energetic every year finding

fireworks flag waving Fourth of July

fuse greetings happy hurry iota

jump kitchen lid loud many

news noises moon offers parade

picnic radio ramp rhubarb

sketch song steak swimming tale

test tune wheat yank

F L A G W A V I N G C R O W D

I O T A C T U N E R A D I O A

R H U B A R B O W E N D C L L

E V E R Y Y E A R E D I A B E

W H E A T C A E K T L K N A Y

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K G N I O N I F U G N O S A E

S W I M M I N G J S T S E T L

H U R R Y A O D R U M I E U D

C I N C I P O D U O L P D O K

T S E S I O N L M A N Y A K A

E N E R G E T I C P M A R O E

K I T C H E N S T U O B A O T

S E A S T H A M P T O N P C S

A Salvation Army representative will be available on Monday mornings,9:30 to 11 AM in the main hall, to help anyone in need with vouchers for clothing, food, and utilities.

NICKLES FOR THE PANTRY In 2009 Big E’s Supermarket started a reward program. For each re-usable

bag used by their customers, they received a 5 cent credit slip. The intent of the program was to reduce the number of plastic grocery bags from going in-to the waste stream. In the past year, customers donated 7300 credit slips to

the Easthampton Community Center Food Pantry. This made a donation to the pantry of

$365.00! Big E’s decided to reward their customers and their community by matching

dollar for dollar all money donated. We received a check from Big E’s Supermarket for $730.00! Thank you all for using the reusable bags to

help our community and our planet .

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KIDS HELPING KIDS In early June when there was a discussion in the media about perhaps having to close or limit the Kid’s Summer Bag Program and not being able to feed the children this summer, I received calls from all of

the elementary schools. The kids wanted to help other kids.

Center and Pepin Schools did food drives and collected two car loads of

food!

Maple School had a theme this year teaching the children about recycling. The children used recy-cled paper for bookmarks, made beautiful clay pendants with recy-cled materials, and had a tag sale for recycled goods. They raised $725.

for the Kid’s Pantry.

White Brook Middle School held a “Super Hero” Day. For a donation to the

Kid’s Pantry, students and staff could wear t-shirt to school depicting their fa-

vorite “Super hero”. They raised $101.

White Brook Middle School’s “Free the Children” afterschool pro-gram collected a car full of food and $577.23 in donations.

We had some very special children that asked people to give food and donations to the Pantry in honor of their birthdays! Courtney

collect clothing donations, food donations and monetary donations for her 16th birthday. Oscar collected foods for his birthday gift .

Jordan collected food and monetary donations to make sure we had enough to feed the children this summer.

Hats off to the children in the greater Easthampton area for demonstrating the spirit of being greast community members! We are very proud of all of you!

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PERMIT NO. 45 Easthampton, MA

EASTHAMPTON COMMUNITY CENTER, INC. 12 CLARK STREET, EASTHAMPTON

OFFICE HOURS : Monday through Friday 8:30 AM until 5:30 PM

Friday AM– Office closed to go to the Food Bank

FOOD PANTRY/CLOTHING CLOSET HOURS:

Monday 9 AM until Noon and 4 PM until 7 PM

Tuesday (Clothing Closet Only) 9 AM until Noon

Wednesday 9 AM until Noon and 4 PM until 7 PM

SHINE (Serving Health Information Needs of Elders) Dick B will be available to answer all your health insurance questions.

Please call the office at 527-5240 to make an appointment.

SNAP (formerly Food Stamps) Assistance is available at your convenience. Please call the office at 527-5240 to make an appointment.

Fuel Assistance Questions ? Please call Community Resources and Advocacy, 17 New South St, Suite 116, Northampton

No Walk–ins Please make an appointment Phone 413 582-4237