Community Fellowship Dinners volunteers and sponsors make a little noise annually at with their fundraising ‘Bean Blast’. For the rest of the year they work without fanfare to fring an invaluable service to the community.
Thursday (April 19) was the 15th Annual Bean Blast where volunteers serve up a baked bean lunch at St. Anne’s Centre with proceeds going to support the Community Fellowship Dinners. Ontario White Bean Producers is among several sponsors of the spring-time event which features yummy slow-baked beans, door prizes and entertainment.
Thursday (April 19) was the 15th Annual Bean Blast where volunteers serve up a baked bean lunch at St. Anne’s Centre with proceeds going to support the Community Fellowship Dinners. Ontario White Bean Producers is among several sponsors of the spring-time event which features yummy slow-baked beans, door prizes and entertainment.
Staffed entirely by volunteers, the Fellowship Dinners have been held, without missing a single month’s lunch or dinner, for twenty years. Planning committee chair, Cathy Grondin, noted that this work is all carried out without a lot of show and that says a lot about the integrity of the volunteers, and their respect for the people they reach out to.
Originally Trinity Anglican Church spearheaded the project and other churches quickly came on board to support the dinners. They are held at Trinity Anglican Church (lunch on the 2nd Friday of the month and dinner on the 3rd Friday of the month).
Cathy says the organization has found that in the last four or five years, high unemployment in the local area has impacted on many people’s ability to feed their families in a nutritious way – the program makes a significant difference. Aside from the fellowship, friendship and nutritious food offered, Cathy says there are other important benefits: “It is great for networking, gives a place for people to find out about social services or to obtain household items” and “starting with the first meal in May, the mobile clinic for the Central Community Health Centre will be parked outside as another resource.”
Placemats provided for the lunch at St. Anne’s include a statement, “Bean Blast 2012 Reflects A Caring Community at Work.” It’s a great way to raise some funds and awareness as those involved begin another year of people quietly helping people. For more information call 519-633-0518.
Originally Trinity Anglican Church spearheaded the project and other churches quickly came on board to support the dinners. They are held at Trinity Anglican Church (lunch on the 2nd Friday of the month and dinner on the 3rd Friday of the month).
Cathy says the organization has found that in the last four or five years, high unemployment in the local area has impacted on many people’s ability to feed their families in a nutritious way – the program makes a significant difference. Aside from the fellowship, friendship and nutritious food offered, Cathy says there are other important benefits: “It is great for networking, gives a place for people to find out about social services or to obtain household items” and “starting with the first meal in May, the mobile clinic for the Central Community Health Centre will be parked outside as another resource.”
Placemats provided for the lunch at St. Anne’s include a statement, “Bean Blast 2012 Reflects A Caring Community at Work.” It’s a great way to raise some funds and awareness as those involved begin another year of people quietly helping people. For more information call 519-633-0518.
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