Hatteras Island Meals

06/01/2026

Needed: Volunteer Fill in Delivery Drivers for Rodanthe/Waves/Salvo. Deliveries are Monday through Friday during lunch time.

05/25/2026

05/11/2026

Hatteras Island Meals (HIM) is so incredibly fortunate to have these fine folks support us. Please take the time to read about this beautiful contribution written and organized by Linda Matthews.

Duke Courtnell has been coming to Hatteras Island since 1968, first lured by off-shore fishing but later as an avid kiteboarder. He marked a special milestone on his 80th birthday kiting with longtime friends in Frisco in dicey, blustery, off-shore wind. His windy escapades often included Mary Hammond-Tooke, Duke’s dear friend and fellow adventurer.

His last day as a kiter was at age 82 in Frisco, still owning the best jump transition among his cohorts. Duke loved Hatteras Island and contributed his time every Thursday to a special group.

When he and his wife, Sue, decided it was time to sell his beachfront salt box, they had a few days to clean out and distribute years of memorabilia and GEAR! His friend and kite mentee, Linda Matthews, volunteered to take the gear and sell it donating the funds to Hatteras Island Meals, a cause that spoke to the Courtnells. “Duke spent hours babysitting me when I first started kiting. As the youngest in our kite group at 60, I had a lot to learn to catch up. They were more than 10 years my senior and really good kiters. Duke always helped me and inspired me to do more.”

The donation to Hatteras Island Meals is $3,060 from the sale of kites, boards, surfboards, harnesses, bars, impact vests and wetsuits. Duke was kidded a lot about the ragged impact vest he always wore, and in the trove of gear sold, there were 2 new ones, but Duke liked his old one best. We hope everyone who participated in this gear adventure uses their gear until its last functioning day! Thanks to all of you who helped support Hatteras Island Meals with your purchases!

04/26/2026

We honor Ms. Betty Jane Barnett and the beautiful life she lived. We are so appreciative of this final gift to HIM. Thank you for your incredible goodness and kindness.

04/10/2026

Noel Gray Harvey https://islandfreepress.org/obituaries/noel-gray-harvey/

04/05/2026

Happy Easter!!!

We want to thank the dedicated individual who created these beautiful wooden Easter Eggs for all of our HIM recipients.

Thank you to all our wonderful HIM volunteers and supporters.

02/24/2026

We so appreciate all the good things that Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative does for our island and our sister organization Cape Hatteras Food Pantry. We appreciate Cape Hatteras Electric (CHEC) along with their cooperative lender, CoBank for their generous $10,000 donation to Cape Hatteras Food Pantry.

02/21/2026

We so appreciate some of the lovelist folks on the Island at North Beach. These kind folks have formed Trailerpalooza and they just go around philanthropically doing good for others. Sylvia Burton heads up this tribe of good people. A few months ago, during our HIM Raffle, they randomly decided to bless us with a generous donation, just because they could. Wil Langdon reached out to us and sweetly offered an unsought donation. Such an awesome group of human beings, you can just see it in their smiles (we only captured 2 that would pose for pics after some begging). OSB Manufacturing (another Trailerpoolza member) did their t-shirts and Wil designed the logo (notice the artwork on his surfboard too). Donations from their t-shirt drive certainly does good things for our community.

Thank you ALL for being extraordinarily gracious HIM HEROES.

(Photos: Group Leader, Sylvia Burton & Wil Langdon).

01/24/2026

Huge thank you to Waves Market & Deli. First of all thank you for always being there for your community. Also we so appreciate all you do for Hatteras Island Meals. It is with deep gratitude that we thank you for donating all of your December 2025 HIM meals for our Rodanthe/Waves/Salvo recipients. You gave our organization a great Christmas present. Thank you for being Hatteras Island Heroes and HIM HEROES. You are simply awesome.

(A few Christmas pics attached too)

01/07/2026

Huge thank you to Cool Wave Ice Cream Shop in Buxton for your generous donation to our 2025 Hatteras Island Meals raffle. You make us look forward to your 2026 season with anticipation. Thank you for being HIM HEROES.

"Offering soft-serve ice cream, hand scooped ice cream, sundaes, banana splits, milk shakes and more. They also make their own homemade waffle cones."

Cool Wave Ice Cream Shoppe
47095 Buxton Back Road
Buxton
(252) 995-6628