Community Corner
Local Food Bank Gets A Decadent Treat
A Lake Forest High School student's gelato company periodically donates to a Catholic Church in Waukegan.
From Dillon Hollingsworth: As part of the Dillon Hollingsworth Gelato "Pints for Meals" program, the company donates gelato periodically to Most Blessed Trinity Parish, a Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Chicago located in Waukegan.
"There is a shortage of fun, high-end foods available for distribution through our food banks and pantries," said Dillon Hollingsworth. "We tend to think of food banks as a place for the most basic food necessities, and that is important but it is nice to see people of need getting a decadent treat once in a while like gelato especially now that the temperatures are rising. Their Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry serves thousands of families that are truly struggling to make ends meet."
Their social services coordinator is Darlene Montes De Oca-Garcia and they have a great staff of volunteers there.
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Over the past few years, Dillon Hollingsworth Gelato has delivered more than a thousand pints to this organization.
The Most Blessed Trinity soup kitchen is on track to serve 35,000 meals with 300 volunteers who will work more than 15,000 hours. Members from fourteen Christian Churches and one Jewish community participate in this ministry. The Soup Kitchen is located in the former St. Bartholomew School on 8th St between Lincoln and Jackson in Waukegan.
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The Food Pantry serves 9,000 families, distributes approximately 210,000 pounds of food, provides clothes in the Clothing Closet and refurbishes bikes for adults to get to work. The program provides Thanksgiving meals and a Christmas Gift Program. The staff encourages clients to become more self-sufficient by providing needs assessments and referrals to other agencies. The Food Pantry is located in the former St. Bartholomew Church on 8th St. between Lincoln and Jackson in Waukegan, next to the Soup Kitchen.
If you would like to contribute to Most Blessed Trinity, please contact Darlene Montes De Oca-Garcia, Social Service Coordinator, at darlene@mbtparish.org.
Image via Dillon Hollingsworth Gelato
