Yarmouth Community Food Pantry

06/12/2012

We have a new logo, courtesy of Betsey Shepard. Let us know what you think!

05/30/2012

Letter carriers in more than 10,000 cities and towns the country did their best to help "Stamp Out Hunger!" on May 12, and folks stepped up to make it a record year. According to the National Association of Letter Carriers, NWA raked in more than 56,000 pounds of food!

That's 28 tons!! And more than 3500 pounds of it was delivered to the Yarmouth Community Food Pantry. Special thanks to our local carriers and the postal customers who participated in the NALC Stamp Out Hunger National Food Drive – the largest one-day food drive in the nation and probably the world. You certainly delivered for us!

04/27/2012

Letter Carriers help 'Stamp Out Hunger'

The 20th anniversary 2012 National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive is scheduled for Saturday, May 12. Each year, the second Saturday in May is a day when we all have an opportunity, with the help of our letter carrier, to easily donate food to needy families in our community. Just fill a bag with non-perishable food and put on or near your mailbox. The terrific men and women of the USPS will do the rest.

The drive, the largest one-day food-collection event in the nation, has been a success every year, but the needs are particularly sad, even staggering. Sixteen percent of all Americans are at risk of hunger—uncertain where their next meal may be coming from. That includes 1 in 5 children under the age of 18, plus 4 million seniors who are forced every day to choose between paying a utility bill and buying food.

04/13/2012

Celebrate Spring by Helping to End Hunger

Spring is associated with renewal, warmth, growth, and light, but for some in our community spring is just another season to spend worrying about providing enough food for their families. The Yarmouth Community Food Pantry is currently in need of the following items to help meet the steady increase in requests for food assistance:

Canned Beef Stew
Canned Fruit - peaches, pears, pineapple, mixed fruit
Cold cereal - all varieties
Canned pasta: Raviolio, Beefaroni, spaghetti & meatballs, etc.
Spaghetti Sauce
Cooking oil
Coffee
Toilet paper

The Food Pantry provides supplemental food assistance to those living in the greater Yarmouth community. The Pantry is located in the lower level of First Parish Church, 116 Main Street in Yarmouth.
Donations can be dropped off at First Parish Church during office hours (Mon – Fri, 9am-3pm) and during regular Pantry hours on Tuesday and Friday from 10-12:AM and on Wednesday from 5-7:PM. All donations of non-perishable food are welcome.

03/26/2012

Girl Scout Troop 214 Community Service Food Drive

03/26/2012

Yarmouth Community Pantry is Beneficiary of Girl Scout Troop 214 Food Drive
Scouts from Yarmouth Troop 214 help weigh, presort and shelve some of the more than 700 pounds of food they collected for the Yarmouth Community Food Pantry as part of the Troop’s community service project.

The girls not only collected, sorted and shelved the food at the Pantry, they also put away the tables and crates that had been set up for them and swept the floor when they were done.

03/26/2012

Parishioners and volunteers of all ages formed a “food brigade” to transfer the St. Bartholomew's food pantry stock to the Yarmouth Community Food Pantry in anticipation of the April 1 merger of St. Bartholomew's pantry into the Yarmouth Community Food Pantry.

03/26/2012

03/19/2012

St. Bart’s Joins Community Effort at Yarmouth Community Food Pantry

St. Bart’s Food Pantry will be joining with the Yarmouth Community Food Pantry on April 1, 2012.

To make this a reality a “Care A Van” will transport the food stock from St. Bart’s pantry to the Yarmouth Community pantry on March 25 after the 10am service. All are invited to join in the brigade in transferring the food inventory from the St. Bart’s food pantry to the Yarmouth Community Food Pantry.

03/16/2012

YCFP Benefits from Yarmouth High School Spirit Week in a BIG way

Spirit Week is an annual YHS event designed to build school spirit and class pride. Classes strive to 'win' by getting the most points overall through a variety of events and competitions. Everything is planned and run by the students, with support and guidance from the adults here. There is usually a charity component in Spirit Week.

This year the YCFP was the beneficiary of that charity component, when the Senior class officers decided to stick close to home, donating food and money to the Pantry.

01/12/2012

Casco Bay Ford Food and Drive
Casco Bay Ford again held a food drive during the month of December for the Yarmouth Community Food Pantry as an incentive to come test drive a new car. Prospective buyers donated canned goods and test drove a car, and in return got a gift card for Dunkin Donuts along with the opportunity to drive a great car. And the Pantry got a wagon load of food on December 30, just in time to replenish its shelves after the holidays. The promotion was coordinated by Gretchen Sigler of Casco Bay Ford.

01/12/2012

Lions Club and Pantry Distribute Holiday Happiness
The Pantry, YCAN and the Yarmouth Lions teamed up in December to provide a holiday feast and gifts to local families. The Pantry provided food baskets, complete with home baked goodies for 52 families and the Lion’s added to the bounty with personal gifts for them. Club members, friends and families shopped for, wrapped and delivered gifts for a total of forty seven individuals, including 17 children.