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Catholic Multicultural Center Serving Meals in Person Again (We Hope)

08/03/2021 03:48:34 PM

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by Sue Levy

Beginning in September, Catholic Multicultural Center hopes to begin serving daily dinners again in their cafeteria, and we are planning for TBE volunteers to help with in-person serving and washing up. These plans are of course contingent on safety and health priorities set by city and county guidelines. We hoped to begin in-person service in August and are now aiming for September. Until they open to in-person dining, we are continuing to cook a meal twice a month with our next time being August 25, see the sign-up here. 

The Catholic Multicultural Center provides free meals every day to south side community members, including those without housing. Volunteers set out and serve the food, participants join one another to eat at café tables next to the center kitchen, and then our volunteers do the dishes with a restaurant style dishwasher. The center, located just off Park Street at 1862 Beld St., serves about 80 people daily.

TBE partners with a variety of church congregations and community groups to provide the volunteer corps to support this effort. With the sponsorship of the Social Action Committee, we provide six to eight volunteers (age 12 and above), for two hours one day a month. The TBE group volunteers on the second Monday of each month, from 3:30 to 5:30 pm. You can sign up for just one day or make it a regular event. 

Interested in engaging with other TBE members to meet this critical community need? Click on the SignUpGenius link and tell us when you are available. 

TBE members began providing in-person volunteer services in 2019. When the group meals had to close down in 2020, 32 cooks from TBE stepped forward, bought groceries, and cooked more than 3,000 grab-and-go meals from March 2020 to July 2021. We are so grateful for all that they did! Thanks to everyone who found a way to keep feeding folks and stay connected to the community during this time.

Contact Sue Levy or Aleeza Hoffert if you’d like to be notified when we switch to in-person serving and cleaning up. 

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