Goyette Funds to Community Supper

 

For the past eight years, the Wednesday Community Suppers held year ‘round at the Peterborough church have served a free weekly spaghetti dinner to an average of 150 people. The suppers are run entirely by volunteers, with high school students receiving training in culinary arts and middle school students receiving necessary community service hours. The supper brings together people from throughout the Monadnock Region to enjoy a hearty, healthy, hot meal as well as inspiring social interaction.

 

The Goyette Fund awarded the grant to the supper “to help create a bridge to creating a self-supporting program.” While supported through discounts from area businesses, cash donations and fundraising events, the rising cost of food coupled with the increased attendance at the suppers created a budget gap. With the Goyette funds, we will now be able to continue the Suppers and launch fundraising efforts to sustain the Suppers into the future.

 

As always, the Community Suppers are a great way to get involved with helping to serve the larger community. We need contributions of desserts—either homemade or store bought as well as financial contributions. We welcome help from people of middle school age and up to with setting up the dining room, doing food prep and food shopping, picking up bread at the Kernel, serving, washing dishes and cleaning the dining room. Please feel free to show up on any Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. or speak with Anne Fischer about how you can get involved.

 

We also thank all those who have been involved with the Community Suppers on an on-going basis. Great big thanks go to Francelle Carapetyan and Peter Bixby, who after running the Suppers for years and years, are taking a 4-month hiatus in France.