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IDs Necessary At First Stephentown Food Pantry Visit

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submitted by Meredith Rhindress

All Stephentown Food Pantry clients will need to bring identification showing their street address, such as a current utility bill, on their first visit of 2014.   The pantry offers short term assistance to residents of Stephentown  and Hancock, MA.  [private]The pantry is open every Saturday morning, weather permitting, from 9 to 11 am at the Stephentown Federated Church, Garfield Road (County Route 26).  Appointments are not needed. As always, requests for help are confidential.  For information, call 518-487-8606.

This volunteer group has been serving the community since 1983 and is entirely supported by donations. If you wish to give money to help stock the pantry, you may send checks to the Stephentown Food Pantry Treasurer at P. O. Box 387, Stephentown, NY,  12168.

The pantry is also a member of the Food Bank of NENY in Latham, NY. You may request any contribution you make to them be applied to the Stephentown Food Pantry account as part of their Adopt-A-Pantry program.

The Stephentown Food Pantry volunteer team came together at the check-in table before client families arrived to collect their holiday meal parcels on December 21. The team had shopped and gotten donations for food for 157 people. Photo courtesy of Meredith Rhindress.
The Stephentown Food Pantry volunteer team came together at the check-in table before client families arrived to collect their holiday meal parcels on December 21. The team had shopped and gotten donations for food for 157 people. Photo courtesy of Meredith Rhindress.

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