The Community Resources & Service Center in Pawling is the place to give locally
Show your children about giving, drop off a frozen turkey and a bunch of the traditional fixin’s at the Resource Center in Pawling
By John M. Benson
November 14, 2007
The Community Resources & Service Center in Pawling is truly the “Heart of Pawling”, being the agency through which residents can reach out and help seniors and families in the community who are facing special challenges and hardships.
For Thanksgiving and Christmas, the Resource Center distributes food for those seniors and families, including a frozen turkey and all of the traditional foods of the season. The Resource Center will assemble bags for entire families, much of it from the bountiful donations of this munificent community, including frozen turkey, dressing, vegetables, stuffing, bread, cranberry sauce, gravy, juices and dessert.
The public is asked to bring that frozen turkey to the volunteers at the Center, and to bring also any and all boxed or canned non-perishable foods, from vegetables to powdered mashed potatoes to gravy and cranberry sauce.
Show your children what it means to give. Get them into the car, pick up that frozen turkey and all of the fixin’s in cans or boxes, and drop them off at the Resources Center on East Main Street in Pawling.
Mizzentop Day School, Christ Church Day School and Holy Trinity Sunday School kids have held food drives in the past, to assemble full dinners for deserving families, and those have been turned over to the Resource Center for distribution to the families that so desperately need them.
Thanks to the Community Resources and Service Center, that frozen turkey the supermarket offers as a bonus to shoppers can be turned into the centerpiece of a heartwarming Thanksgiving dinner for many disadvantaged families in this community.
Residents always support this agency with bountiful giving, because they know that to give locally during the holidays, there is no better way to reach out than by giving food and funding to the Resource Center.
Director Patty Moore and her staff and volunteers know where the people are who need help, the seniors and families who will not experience the joy and blessings of the holiday season without the generous assistance of the always beneficent residents of this community.
All the year round, the Resource Center provides critical services in the community, including a full medical equipment lending program, volunteer drivers who transport seniors and others to medical appointments in Dutchess and Putnam Counties and several Connecticut locations, a year-round food pantry and personal care items, calls to shut-ins, shopping trips for seniors to Hannaford’s, tax preparation, and many other services to seniors and families.
But the holidays, beginning with Thanksgiving, are a special time when the Resource Center provides full meals and cheer to seniors and families who would otherwise be unable to share in the heart-warming traditional celebrations.
Making the good works of the Resource Center possible, the residents of Pawling give in special magnitude during the holidays, giving directly to the Resources Center, or helping their children give at many churches or at the public schools and Mizzentop Day School and other private schools where food drives are held.
The Resource Center also collects winter coats in excellent condition for distribution to local families who need them.
The public can bring frozen turkeys and other boxed or canned non-perishable foods directly to the Resources Center.
The Center is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday to Thursday, and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday.
The Resource Center will be closed Thanksgiving Day and Friday, November 23.
The Resource Center is located behind the John Kane House on East Main Street in the Village of Pawling.
Call 855-3459 to find out exactly what is needed, and how and where to deliver it to the Resource Center on East Main Street in Pawling
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