SHERRILLS FORD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY AND CLOTHES CLOSET: Offers a food pantry and clothes closet. Call before stopping by to check on available services. Phone: 828-478-9652
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NEIGHBORS NETWORK - YOUR NEIGHBORS PANTRY: Offers a food pantry and other services for seniors. Call before stopping by to check on available services. Phone 828-464-1111
Website: www.neighborsnetwork.org - Email: dianna@neighborsnetwork.org
HIGHWAYS AND HEDGES MINISTRY: Description: Offers dinner with message and free groceries or personal and household items. Offers a clothes closet and indoor yard sale. Delivers groceries, personal and household items to people without transportation. Helps with utilities, rent and other bills. Delivers free furniture and appliances. Call before stopping by to check on available services.
Phone: 828-781-8095 - Website: www.facebook.com/highwaysandhedgesnc/
HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN: The hours of service will change to 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in an effort to allow sufficient time for meals to be distributed in the most efficient manner, the dining room will be closed and instead take-out meals will be served. The pantry remains stocked and ready to serve those in need of groceries. Showers will remain available to guests from 8 - 9 a.m. Visit hickorysoupkitchen.org for more information.
THE CORNER TABLE SOUP KITCHEN – NEWTON: The following actions were placed in effect for March 16 – March 31. Lunch will be served to guests via a to-go-meal from 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday- Friday on our back porch. Guests will not be allowed in the facility for any reason. This includes restrooms. Friday to-go-bags will be provided as usual. Scheduled Saturday bag lunches will remain on the calendar. The Food Service Manager will be preparing additional frozen meals due to an increase in demand, limited to Two (2) Meals per day, per person. Churches who distribute frozen meals will still be allowed to pick up mass quantities as normal.
BACKPACK PROGRAM: Catawba County Schools: Sixteen feeding sites will be available for students starting Wednesday, March 18. Backpacks will be delivered to each school before Thursday, March 19 Backpacks will be distributed to students who come into pickup Work Packs. Any students who cannot pick up work packs/backpacks on Thursday will have them delivered to their homes on Friday, March 20.
Hickory Public Schools: Feeding sites will also be available at Longview and Viewmont starting Tuesday, March 17. Volunteers are picking up bags on Thursday, March 19 for all Hickory schools (2-3 per participating family). Bags will be delivered to schools before feeding time from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Newton-Conover City Schools: Backpack bags will be delivered to students’ door to door via buses. Any families that cannot make it to a feeding site are asked to notify their counselor who in return will notify the Backpack Program Coordinator. For information visit: http://www.thecornertable.org/backpack-program-food-for-students
EASTERN CATAWBA COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: The agency plans to maintain all operations during this virus outbreak. Those visiting ECCCM will be directed to follow established protocols of social distancing, only one member per household admitted and no children will be allowed in the building. As dedicated workers in our community either lose working hours or are laid off from their jobs, affected persons can apply for emergency financial assistance.
The ECCCM Charlie Bunn Food Pantry is well-situated for additional demands for hunger relief, with adequate supplies of commodities.
As schools close, and children lose access to school breakfasts and lunches, the ECCCM Student Hunger Prevention Program provides adequate supplies of food for the entire household for one year. Families with children in either Newton-Conover City Schools or Catawba County Schools can apply here.
Already, good people within our community have demonstrated concern for our neighbors by donating food and financial resources. We invite those who are able to support ECCCM’s work in our community to drop off donations Monday - Thursday from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. or Fridays from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. For information visit: https://www.ecccm.org/
THE SALVATION ARMY: We are changing our intake policy for our shelter - we are halting all intake as of today and not allowing anyone new to enter our shelter. We are allowing those already in the shelter to stay but we are monitoring their health conditions on a daily basis by taking temperatures at intake and being proactive with health and sanitary procedures as outlines by the Health Department and other government agencies. Anyone that we feel may be infected will be immediately isolated and the proper personnel will be notified so that the Health Department can take over and do what needs to be done with the client and those that may be infected as well - keep in mind that this procedure may change depending on the progression or severity of the situation
At this time we are feeding un-sheltered people who come to the shelter for meals "to go" meals through the back door in clam-shell dishes and they will eat elsewhere.
MEALS ON WHEELS/SENIORS MORNING OUT: Starting Monday, March 16, Catawba County Meals on Wheels clients will receive five frozen meals every Monday and check-in phone calls every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. New referrals to the program are being placed on a waiting list until regular operations resume. This schedule will remain in operation until further notice. As previously announced, Catawba County Senior Nutrition Services is temporarily closing all Catawba County Seniors Morning Out (SMO) sites effective Monday, March 16. During this time, all SMO participants will still have the ability to receive meals and will receive daily phone calls from Senior Nutrition Services staff.
OTHER FOOD LINKS FOR CHILDREN: Resources for free meals for all students and some even ages 1-18 in each county and school system in our area.
Hickory Public Schools:
http://www.hickoryschools.net/departments/communications/what_s_new__/c…
Catawba County Schools: (includes information on some restaurants in Catawba County)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16AfaTR_qk0F1XuWMNd039R1mfk3sWRFw/view
Newton Conover City Schools:
https://www.newton-conover.org/apps/news/article/1187669
Burke County Schools:
https://www.burke.k12.nc.us/about_us/recent_news/b_c_p_s_feeds_students…
Iredell-Statesville Schools:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUCq9vIk4E4ofKdJugeTpRb-Z6VPZ…
Caldwell County Schools:
https://www.caldwellschools.com/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=8…