September 2015 - Lake Township FISH

Faithfully I Serve Him
Lake Township FISH
September / October 2015
Editor: Jan Moore-Dwenger
Volume 2, Issue 5
Faithfully
I
Serve
Him
Food Pantry Needs:
 Canned Chicken
 Cleaning Supplies
 Soup
 Pasta Sauce
 Boxed Potatoes
 Facial Tissue
 Grocery Coupons
Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!
August was a month of actually detailing the worth of donations to the FISH Pantry by weighing and recording the weights of all the groceries that came through
the doors of the FISH pantry. This activity was then translated into how many
meals this food would provide for the clients. Other statistics were also revealed
from the cash donations that were made as to how much could be purchased at
the Akron Canton Food Bank and at local stores through sales and use of coupons. Throughout this newsletter, we hope you will see the importance of your
donations and how the good stewardship of your monetary and grocery donations
is being employed.
Generous people of our community donated in many ways in the months of July
and August and we are grateful for all of them. Just look at the list to see the incredible involvement that helps those in need.
Brown Bag
Grocery Drives
Food Orders……..…490
Housing: 5 ….$2,625.00
Electric: 12....$2,473.95
Gas: 2..……..….$305.98
Oil: 0.…....………$00.00
Individual Produce
& Grocery Donors
Recap of July/August
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FISH’S Food for Thought:
By Him, the rolling seasons in fruitful order move. Sing to the Lord
of Harvest, a joyous song of love.
-----John S.B. Monsell
Advent Lutheran Church
Hartville Church of the Brethren
Chapel in Green
Holy Spirit Catholic Church
East Nimishillen Church of the
Maple Grove Mennonite Church
Brethren
New Life Episcopal Church
Grace United Church of Christ
St. Jacob’s Lutheran Church
Greentown United Methodist
St. Jacob’s Community Church
Angel Bairs
Martha Hakes
Carla Barnes
Marty Myers
Erin Crimaldi
Michelle Sommers
Gary Stine
Martha and Ray Miller
Helen Ball
JoAnn Shoemaker
Lou Stange
John & Diana Chan
Marianne & Bob Gooding
Mr. & Mrs. James Bateman
Business and Groups’ Donations
Pizza Hut - Weekly Pizzas and Pastas
Pole Position Marketing - FISH Sponsor Stoney
DeGyeter and his wife with 7 employees volunteered for a Tuesday morning distribution
Senior Sitters - 275 boxes of cereals
Kids’ Country of Hartville - Proceeds from their
R Grocery— Donation of 250 gallons of laundry
detergent
Adventure Place - 75 Birthday boxes for boys and
girls ages 1—10
All the people who brought in grocery coupons for
our shopper
lemonade stand
Partnering Churches
Advent Lutheran Church
Bethany Mennonite Church
Cornerstone Mennonite Church
East Nimishillen Church of the Brethren
Grace United Church of Christ
Greentown United Methodist Church
Hartville Church of the Brethren
Hartville Mennonite Church
Holy Spirit Catholic Church
Maple Grove Mennonite Church
New Life Episcopal Church
Rivertree Christian Church
St. Jacob’s Lutheran Church
St. Jacob’s Community Church of Cairo
Uniontown United Methodist Church
Event Fundraisers: (More details will follow in this newsletter)
Downtown Hartville Merchants’ Second Saturday Old-Fashioned Days July 11th -$172
Romeo’s Pizza and Scott Tucker July 28th - $246.11
Lake Township FISH Garage and Treasure Sale - $1,223
Macy’s “Shop For A Cause” August 29th - $375
Kids’ Country Lemonade Stand - $34.50
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For some ‘Fun Facts’, we can convert the figures from the proceeds of these five fundraisers, $2050.61, to the
numbers of clients’ meals this money will buy if we purchase the food from the ACFB. In 2014, we averaged
paying $0.12 a pound for groceries. (Much of the food we receive is free, such as all the produce.) The conversion of pounds of food per meal is 1.2 lbs. per meal. Therefore, the amount of meals we can provide from this
food is 17,088 meals!
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While that might seem like it would last a long time, in the first three weeks of August, 2015 alone, FISH distributed
enough food for 17,904 meals. This was an increase of 4,533 meals above that given in August, 2014. All the numbers
have significantly been higher with the number of new clients and the number of clients’ visits.
The organization buys tons of groceries from the ACFB, it does not rely solely on these purchases. This organization
gets many donations from brown bag drives and must supplement these two sources with purchases made by a
volunteer shopper who diligently uses coupons and watches for sales.
The largest expense FISH has is for groceries, but monetary donations also are used to pay for other costs besides food.
FISH provides thousands of dollars every year for financial help to people in Lake Township who are facing desperate
situations such as eviction or utility shut-off. There are also expenses for operating the Lake Township FISH pantry.
Recap of Recent Events
FISH’S 2nd Annual Pie
Contest on Saturday
July 11th proved to be a
tasty affair. Judges, Hartville Mayor
Richard Currie, members of the
Hartville Fire Department, and
Kami Sommers had the enjoyable
but difficult task of picking the
winners among the 17 pie-bakers.
Congratulations to these winners:
1st Prize - Glennis Lautzenheiser for
Walnut Pie, 2nd Prize - Fern Dews
for Vegan Apple Crumb Crust Pie
and 3rd Prize - Sue Rife for Cherry
Pie. After the judging, the pies were
cut into slices and sold. Thanks to
all who baked and/or bought the
pies and to Edward Jones for
sponsoring this event.
Scott Tucker, Manager of Romeo’s
Pizza, held its 3rd fundraiser for
FISH this year on July 28th. As on
the other two dates, Scott gave a
percentage of the proceeds from the
food those supporting FISH purchased. We appreciate this ongoing
support from Scott and those who
buy the food.
On August 29th,
Macy’s Department
Store held a “Shop
For A Cause” sale.
Each customer
For the first time in its 42-year history, could buy a pass for $5 which
Lake Township FISH held a Garage and was used that day as a coupon
Treasure Sale. John Pastore of Hartville to receive 25% off purchases
RV Center, Inc. at 540 South Prospect and a chance at a $500 shopAvenue, Hartville, had this idea to have ping spree. Seventy-three
the sale in conjunction with the Hartville customers listed FISH as their
Downtown Merchants Association’s
designated “Cause”, so the
Second Saturday on August 8th. The
organization earned $365.
Pastore family provided a wonderful
It wasn’t a
space, advertising, donated furniture,
Fundraiser that
soft drinks, water, popcorn and snacks
the kids at Adto sell! They also helped with the parkventure Place
ing and valet services. Did they even
Day
Care
at
Advent
Lutheran
provide the beautiful day? We express
our sincere thanks to the Pastore Family Church conducted this past
summer, but you could call it a
for hosting this event.
Fun Raiser. They made 75
FISH conducted a bake sale with many Birthday Boxes that were given
goodies made by the FISH volunteers. to FISH. These were shoeboxes they decorated and filled
The organization appreciates these
with items such as a cake mix
workers for their efforts of making
phone calls and signs, baking and deliv- and can of frosting, birthday
ering baked goods, donating, sorting and cups, paper plates, napkins and
stickers and a book just right
pricing items, selling, cleaning up the
leftovers for re-purposing: Kathleen and for children ages 1-10. These
are distributed to the FISH cliDonald Schenck, Nickie and Rich
Hetrick, Judy Milvet, Freda Hathaway, ents when their children have a
birthday. What a delightful gift
Jan Dwenger, Glennis Lautzenhiser,
for these kids! We are grateful
Marty Myers, Debbie Mulig, Susy
to the thoughtful teachers and
Becher, Jack Bischoff and Fern Dews.
children at Adventure Place.
Coming Events
Benefit
Dinner
On September 22, 2015, the
8th Annual Lake Township
FISH Benefit Dinner will
be held at the Hartville
Kitchen at 1015 Edison
Street NW. This is FISH’S
largest fundraiser of the
year so please join us for an
evening of great food and
entertainment. Tickets are
on sale now for a $25 donation and for that you will
receive an entrée, two sides,
salad, dessert and a beverage plus entertainment.
This year the group,
“Legacy”, will be featured,
playing a mix of Christian
Contemporary Music and
family-friendly rock oldies.
For tickets, call Hartville
Kitchen at 330-877-9353
where you may charge your
purchase OR see your
church representative and
pay with cash or a check
payable to Lake Township
FISH.
Doors open at 5:30 pm and
dinner is at 6:00. For questions and more information
email uswww.laketownshipfish.com.
Please plan to help make
this evening a big success.
Hartville Chamber of Commerce - One Bite
One Bite
The Hartville Chamber of
Commerce will be having
the One-Bite Event and
“Canstruction Cantribution” to benefit the Chamber and FISH on October
8, 2015. The theme of the
design will be fashioned
over the children’s book,
Rainbow Fish. We plan to
work with a Kent State
University Architectural
student, who will design the
structure using cans and
boxes of food. Groups
such as the National Honor
Society and others will be
contacted to donate the
kinds of food we will need.
After the event, all of food
will be donated to FISH.
This is a fun evening and
well attended. Please support the Chamber in this
effort.
Thanksgiving Help
There will be the Second Annual FISH Thanksgiving Dinner
Food Distribution on November 24, 2015. It will once again
be organized by Hartville Mennonite Church with the help of
other area churches and FISH. This is done in conjunction
with Lake Local Schools. All plans are not finalized for this
event, but keep watching for more information.
A Happy FISH Tale
Maybe you noticed one of the fundraisers was not featured…..yet,… in
this newsletter. That one is what this
tale is about.
A group of
children from
a local day
care, Kids’
Country, came
to visit the FISH pantry one
day in July to bring money
the children had earned by
having a lemonade stand to
help the hungry. One
youngster, as he dejectedly
handed the money over to
FISH Director, Kathleen
Schenck, remarked, “Thirty
four dollars and fifty cents
Food Bank. She went on and
explained that the money they
had earned had just purchased
all the meat at the Food Bank
that was in one freezer for
isn’t very much!” Kathleen
said, “Oh yes it is! I can buy a $31.20 and there even was
lot of food for that amount of some left over to buy other
groceries. Joe and the others
money.” She pointed to the
freezer in the room and told Joe learned an important lesson
to go over and look in it, then that day. All donations are
look in the other two freezers in needed and help make a differthe room. Each one was filled ence to those who need help in
our community
to the brim with 150 lbs. of
meat she had purchased for
FISH from the Akron Canton
DON”T FORGET THAT……….
Amazon donates 0.5% of the cost of your purchases to Lake Township FISH
just by logging on to http://smile.amazon.com/ch/80-0253590. Use this for
holiday buying!
You can specify that your donation to United Way go to Lake Township
FISH.
Lake Township FISH is now on Facebook and you can follow news and coming events to keep current
with FISH activities and news by linking on to www.facebook.com/laketownshipfish or go to the FISH
website www.laketownshipfish.com for more information.
The Acme Community Cash Back Program began earlier this year, August 20th, and it goes through
January 6, 2016. Lake Township FISH is a registered organization for this program and works this way:
Buy Acme Fresh Market store brands when you shop, and FISH will receive 5% Cash back. Turn your
register receipts in to your church representative or take them to the pantry and put them in the Cash
Back container.
Whether it is financial help when eviction is pending, a utility shut-off notice comes, or
there is little or no food in the home, Lake Township FISH is there to help. Your support
with prayers, monetary donations and groceries will make it happen. Thank you for
making a difference in this community and helping carry out the mission of Lake Township FISH…Living Christ’s love by serving our neighbors.
Thank you to our 2015—2016 Sponsors
Platinum
Silver
Andy & Jill Pressler
Donald & Lydia Baker
Ellis Erb
Forever Lawn
Gentle Brook
Hadassah Lodge #450
Hartville Health & Wellness Centre
Hartville Collectibles
Hartville Hardware
Hartville Kitchen
Hopkins Lawver Funeral Home
Jan Moore Dwenger & Tom Dwenger
Pole Position Marketing
R Grocery Outlet
Ramsburg Insurance
Richard W. Zellers
Roy & Beverly Grable
Yoder-Bontrager Insurance Agency
C. Farah, DDS
Charles & Elaine Slaybaugh
Cutter Power Sales, LLC
Dave & Patricia Wartko
Don & Phyllis Dickes
Glenn & Glennis Lautzenhiser
Geoffrey Gibbs
Gertrude Brenckle
Loretta Shackelford
Mark & Pat Hearns
M.J. Miller & Company
Nickie & Rich Hetrick
Schoner Chevrolet
Thomas & Julia Besenyodi
Trent Hershman – Edward Jones Investments
.
Gold
Charles & Joan Dayton
Donald & Kathleen Schenck
Hartville RV Center
Jeffrey & Lisa Zellers
Ken & Peggy Zellers
Lions Club of Uniontown
Mary Ann Crawford
Norman Slack
Rich & Ruby Wittmer
Virginia Powell
Lake Township FISH
PO Box 611
Hartville, Ohio 44632
330-877-1845