AMEN Serves Over 300 Families in November

The AMEN Food Pantry wants to thank all in the community that provided food assistance for the month of November. This would include all that provided monetary donations, food drives and the special giving during the holiday period.

A recap for the month provides the following statistics: 367 families were served, which represented 1,106 individuals served. Donated food was 12,014 pounds. The number of volunteers was 227 for a total of 1,014 hours.

The impact of your generous donations provided this need. The AMEN board and volunteers say thank you. Monetary donations can be mailed to P.O. Box 571, La Grange, Texas 78945. You can also visit www.amenlagrange. org and make a donation through the website.

AMEN has discontinued using harmful individual use plastic bags for food selections. Reusable bags, boxes or other containers will be used which will reduce the environmental impact in Fayette County. The only exception is for meat products; plastic will be used.

The impact has prevented 11,700 plastic bags that have not been sent to the landfill. Thank you to clients who bring their reusable bags. The average is about 2,000 bags per month.

AMEN wants to become greener and reduce the number of plastic bags used to accommodate shopping. We are asking the community if they have any reuseable shopping bags to donate to the pantry. The bags can be dropped on Monday and/or Thursday during business hours.

The pantry is open to provide products from Monday 9 a.m. - noon and open on Thursday for drop off 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.