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Guest Spotlight Showcasing Mid-Day Meal Corporate Partners New Volunteer Spotlight Spring Cleaning 3 Groups Join St. George’s Sock Drive Spring Fundraising Results Ongoing Wish List Not By Bread Alone The Last Word Coming Events
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Inside this issue:
21 West 22nd Street, Riviera Beach, FL 33404
561-844-7713 www.saintgeorgescenter.org
Summer 2018 Volume 1, Issue 8
TABLE TALK FEEDING THE MIND, BODY & SOULFEEDING THE MIND, BODY & SOULFEEDING THE MIND, BODY & SOUL
I am also
pleased to an-
nounce that St.
George's Center
and St. George's
Church are join-
ing forces to
have a Friends
of St. George's Inaugural Barbe-
cue on August 25th
from 4 to 6
PM. Special thanks to St. George’s
Church Senior Warden Art Witt-
man, and St. George's Center staff
member Cristina Hungerford for
their collaboration in putting this
together! Save the date.
Please contact us at 561-844-7713
for more details on supporting our
Challenge Fund, or to arrange for a
personal tour of the Center.
Thank You!
Greetings from St. George's!
As we enter the long, hot summer
we are seeing our usual increase
in the number of guests that we
are serving. We also find a
marked increase in our utility bills
as we crank up the A/C in our din-
ing hall and keep our freezers and
refrigeration systems humming.
Like many local non-profits, we
also face a summer lull with the
income we receive from donors.
Therefore, our board and staff
have established a Challenge
Fund for the summer.
Our goal as a board is to raise
$10,000 with 100% participation.
We are reaching out to the com-
munity and asking for your help to
match the fund.
Any size contribution will be a
great help!
President’s Message By Jack Lansing
With the faithful support of Donors, Corporate & Community Partners, Staff, and over 800 Volun-
teers, St. George’s Center is currently serving over 2,300 meals a week to those experiencing
Hunger and Homelessness in our Community. See the article on page 5 describing other ways
the Center leverages your support to improve the lives of our neediest neighbors.
We are hosting one of our quarterly volunteer meetings on August 4th at 9 AM in St. George’s
Parish Hall. Coffee and donuts will be served. For more information please email chunger-
St. George’s Serves Record Numbers By Cristina Hungerford
Page 2 Table Talk
New Volunteer Spotlight: Michael Kaumeier By Cristina Hungerford
Michael Kaumeier is this summer’s volunteer spotlight. Michael has been volunteering with us since May and has done an excel-
lent job.
The main project that Michael has been working on is organizing,
sorting and distributing clothing donations to our guests. Michael
also has served during our Mid-day meal.
Mr. Kaumeier volunteers at St. George’s Center because he be-
lieves in giving back and being involved in the community. He
says, “My parents instilled in me the belief that it is necessary to
pay it forward”.
Michael was born and raised in St. Petersburg but currently lives in Palm Beach Gardens, with his
two dogs Reily and Paisley and his cat Lily. His hobbies are gardening, paddle boarding, walking,
and bike riding. Michael also volunteers for Friends of Jupiter Beach and the Palm Beach County
Food Bank.
Michael served in the US Air Force from 1975 to 1981.
When entering our Mid-day Meal you will most likely be greeted by a beau-tiful, relaxing song being played on the piano in the Parish Hall. The pianist who offers us his free services during our lunch hour is a young gentleman by the name of Jonathan Neves. Jonathan is a guest of ours who comes almost every day to eat lunch and dinner here with us at St. George’s. To show his gratefulness for the warm meals, he uses his talent of playing the piano for the rest of our guests and volunteers. Mr. Neves is a self-taught pianist from Broward County. He has made his way to Riviera Beach in search of a new life and with the hope of turning his piano playing skills into a career.
Guest Spotlight: Jonathan Neves By Cristina Hungerford,
Volunteer Coordinator
Showcasing Mid-Day Meal Corporate Partners
The Ritz-Carlton Residences
Singer Island Lockheed Martin Corporation
Page 3 Summer 2018
Spring Cleaning Update: By Cristina Hungerford
In June, the Mendelsohn Family Foundation funded a deep cleaning of the Parish Hall, kitchen floors, tables and chairs.
We were blessed to have so many of our wonderful board members and friends there cleaning
away along with Exclusive Carpet Cleaning who was incredibly generous with us.
Thank you to Exclusive Carpet Cleaning and to everyone who made this possible!
We are so grateful to Julius Roehl and Nativity Lutheran Palm Beach Gardens for holding a sock drive for us. They collected and donated 200 pairs of men’s socks, 117 pairs of women’s
socks and 44 pairs of children’s socks.
Buncettes for a Cause and FP&L Real Estate Business Unit also held an amazing sock drive this past spring. If you, your place of business or a group you are involved with would like to hold
a sock drive please contact Cristina Hungerford at [email protected]. All
sock donations go towards our foot washing and clothing distribution programs.
Thank you so much! This will be wonderful for our Friday Foot
Washing Program.
3 Groups Join St. George’s Sock Drive By Cristina Hungerford
Nativity Lutheran Palm
Beach Gardens
Buncettes for a Cause—Dinah Washam,
Michelle Kahmann, Laura Lynch, Mary Aguiar, Mary Gropp, Trisha Estabrook, Lois Clay, Tracy Davis, Carrey Golish, Kelley Smeriglio & Peggy Green
FP&L Corporate Real
Estate Business Unit
Page 4 Table Talk
Spring Fundraiser Results By Cristina Hungerford
This spring we held two successful fundraisers benefiting St. George’s Center.
On Saturday, April 28th we held a tea hosted by St. Mark’s
Episcopal Church.
On Wednesday, May 16th we hosted a Friends of St. George’s
Wine and Cheese Reception at The Regional Kitchen and
Public House. Thank you to our wonderful committee and
amazing supporters. All of the auction items at both events
were purchased and raised over $8,000.
St. George’s Center Ongoing Wish List
If any group, company or organization is interested in donating or having a wish list drive please contact Cristina Hungerford at [email protected].
Feeding Programs #10 cans of beans, corn, beets, lima beans, soup or gravy Paper Products:
Paper towels Styrofoam 8” dinner plates 6 “dessert plates Soup bowls 8 oz. cups Plastic utensils Napkins
Health & Hygiene Programs Toiletry kits to be handed out at meal time Men's & Women’s socks Towels Paper towels Antiseptic scrub / ointments
Epsom salts Hand soap
Plastic gloves
Cleaning Supplies: Floor cleaner Dish soap Dish towels
Cyndy Ryan (left) with Palm
Beach County Food Bank Ex-
ecutive Director Karen Erren
St. George’s Center Executive
Director Cinthia Becton (left) and
Board Member Dede Lewis
Jane Counts, Samantha Massler and
Dinah Washam
From left - Thomas Riggs, Jim & Kathy
Barnette, Center CEO Rev. Hap Lewis
and Board Member Dede Lewis
Page 5 Summer 2018
Keep In The Know About The Center Exciting things are happening at St. George’s Center. Don’t miss the latest news. Just click
the link below and send us your email address so we can add you to the distribution list for
our communications. “LIKE” the Center on Facebook. And view our videos on YouTube.
which to place their valuable
documents.
5. DONATED CLOTHING. Clean and presentable clothing
is a constant need of the
homeless folk. Thankfully St.
George’s Center receives
many donations of used cloth-
ing for distribution to those who
need them. Some volunteers
give their time to the task of
sorting and organizing the do-
nations by size and type and
then assist in the distribution of
the clothes to appropriate indi-
viduals. Please keep up the
donations!
6. CENTER VEGETABLE
GARDEN. On the back cor-ner of the Center’s property is
a beautiful vegetable garden
which provides needed pro-
duce for our kitchen. The main
volunteer who conceived of the
idea and carried through on the
planting and culture of the gar-
den is tending to some family
business out of state at the
moment. We look forward to
his return soon and to his re-
sumption of growing the
healthy food for our guests.
2. HOMELESS DECLARA-
TION. If you are homeless,
you may receive health care at
local hospitals providing you
have been declared homeless
by the federal government. An
application must be filed, of
course, for this to happen. The
staff at St. George’s Center file
about 140 of these each year
on behalf of its guests.
3. FOOD STAMP APPLICA-
TIONS. Persons whose in-
comes are at or below the fed-
erally declared poverty level
are entitled to receive U.S. fed-
eral food stamps to assist in
the purchase of necessary
food items. Of course an appli-
cation must be filed. St.
George’s Center files over 60
of these on behalf of our
guests each year.
4. DOCUMENT SAFEKEEP-
ING. Suppose you were
homeless and had no safe
place to keep your important
documents like your birth cer-
tificate or your insurance policy
or your social security card or
simply your address book. St.
George’s Center offers its
guests a secure locked file in
You have read on these pages
of St. George’s feeding pro-
gram for the poor and home-
less folk of northern Palm
Beach county. Hot lunches and
dinners are served five days a
week, with take-out lunches on
Saturdays.
You have read about showers
on Thursdays and foot wash-
ings on Fridays. You have
also read about Visiting Nurses
coming to St. George’s
monthly to monitor the health
of our guests. But there are
many more services offered at
St. George’s Center.
1. MAILING ADDRESS. Sup-
pose you were homeless.
Where would you get your
mail, especially if you couldn’t
afford the rent on a mailbox at
the Post Office? St. George’s
answers that question for over
100 individuals. Those who
use this service list the St.
George’s mail box as their ad-
dress and pick up their mail
from the Center office. A terri-
fic problem solved. Especially
important if you are waiting for
something like a disability
check or word from your family.
Not By Bread Alone - St. George’s Does Much More Than
Feed the Hungry By Robert Hull
Page 6
Some years ago I saw a cartoon in the Family
Circle that depicted Casper the Friendly Ghost
running around with the words “Not Me”
posted on his chest.
Each incident that happened, a dish being bro-
ken, a spill in the kitchen, dirt being tracked
into the house, etc. was blamed on “Not Me”.
St. George’s has a positive version of “Not
Me”. We have “I’ll Help”.
“I’ll Help” pick up paper on the grass. “I’ll
Help” put up the chairs at the end of the
meals. “l’ll Help” put up donations. “I’ll Help”
you bring in heavy
bags from your car.
Our “I’ll Help” individu-
als have many names.
These are very special
individuals because St.
George’s cannot func-
tion without them. God
Bless the many “I’ll
Help” persons we are
privileged to have at our Church and Center.
They brighten St. George’s.
The Last Word By Cinthia Becton, Executive Director
Board of Directors
Rev. Canon Howarth Lewis, C.E.O.
Jack Lansing, President
Daniel Ross, Vice President
Robert Hull, Secretary
Carmen Magana, Treasurer
Elaine Alvarez
Hyacinthia Becton
Jane Counts
Keith Hintzen
Canon Dianna “Dede” Lewis
Wendy Mendelsohn
Dinah Washam
Tony Zmistowski
Table Talk
Coming Events
St. George's Center & Church
Inaugural Barbecue
Saturday, August 25th from 4 PM to 6 PM
St. George’s Parish Hall and Courtyard
St. George’s Center’s Inaugural
Golf Tournament
Saturday, October 13, 2018
PALM BEACH PAR 3, 2345 S Ocean Blvd.
Palm Beach
7:30 am Check-In Begins 8:30 am Shotgun Start
11:30 am Lunch, Awards & Silent Auction
For more details, contact Cristina Hungerford at 561-844-7713
We are excited for our Second Annual End Hunger Fast Campaign running from August 1st to September 1st. End Hunger Fast is an online campaign that
raises awareness about hunger by fasting for 24-hours or skipping a meal on September 1st! For more information please visit https://endhunger.givingspirit.com or email [email protected]