AMEN Serves 277 Families in Month of May

The AMEN Food Pantry appreciates all in the community that provided food assistance for the month of May. This would include all that provided monetary donations, food drives and the AMEN Gardens. The gardeners have been providing beets, kale, carrots and many other leafy vegetables.

A recap for the month provides the following statistics. 277 families were served, which represented 817 individuals served. Donated food was 6,085 pounds. The number of volunteers was on 179 for a total of 701. 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 link provided.

Beginning in June, AMEN will discontinue using harmful single use plastic bags for food selections. Reusable bags, boxes or other containers will be used, which will reduce the environmental impact in Fayette County.

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 off on Monday and/or Thursday during business hours.

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