Tonight’s yummy dinner from Food Not Bombs:
Serving at 6:00 p.m. at the downtown public library. Garden salad, fruit salad, macaroni and cheese, bread, and more. Donated food, cooked by volunteers, served free!
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Tonight was the Food Not Bombs dinner at the HIVE. A lot of the people who eat at the FNB dinners are homeless, and some are formerly homeless. Tonight, one of my formerly homeless friends came and brought her daughter. They went in the kitchen and got out the biggest serving bowls, then came back to the meeting space and pulled out huge bags of candy that they’d brought with them, and began filling the bowls. There are lots of Glenwood neighborhood kids at the HIVE and at the FNB dinners. You should have seen their eyes! My friend and her daughter passed out candy to the kids and to all the adults. I got a Milky Way. It was so good.
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It’s Friday, so I must be at the HIVE. People are here for the free food distribution. I put on an apron (photo 1) and Tim (photo 3) and I chopped up fresh vegetables and cooked up some soup (photo 2.) The aroma lured folks into the kitchen and they were waiting to eat when we put it on the table (photo 4.) The verdict: “It’s a keeper.”
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From the News & Record, letters to the editor, 08/20/2008:
Urban Ministry serves homeless breakfast
Your article, “Discovering a need, blogger takes action” (A1, Aug. 14), contained incorrect information. It stated, “Hospitality House is the only place in the city that serves breakfast to the homeless.”
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“After 13 years and 50,000 meals Food Not Bombs is moving from St. Mary’s House near UNCG to its own brand-new kitchen at the Hive (1214 Grove St.) in the Glenwood neighborhood. Please join Food Not Bombs diners and volunteers past and present in one last meal at St. Mary’s House — a night of homecooked food and homegrown Food Not Bombs talent!”
This Friday night. Details on Facebook, here.
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Tina Firesheets’ excellent article about Greensboro’s Food Not Bombs is called “Community Cuisine,” and I love the title! My church has a weekly “community dinner” for the homeless (because it’s for the “community”), but Food Not Bombs really models what it means to build community with their three times weekly dinners and free-food distribution program.
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“A homeless man was assaulted and robbed in broad daylight Monday afternoon along West Florida Street, police said. At 5:22 p.m., Greensboro police responded to the intersection of West Florida and Luray Drive. Lt. Brian James said a man walking down the street was robbed and struck in the head with ’some type of blunt object.’” » continue reading on News-Record.com
West Florida Street is a heavily traveled road, and it intersects with Luray Drive at Smith Homes, a large public housing community where there are typically a number of people (including children) outside, on patios and sidewalks. And 5:22 p.m. is a peak traffic time for commuters. To attack and rob a man in the street at that time of day strikes me as a fairly bold act.
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Fox8 reports that a homeless man was attacked and robbed early this morning while looking for a place to sleep in the Glenwood neighborhood in Greensboro. The man told police that two men approached him, attacked him with a chain and stole his backpack.
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Via email, from Liz Seymour:
The kitchen project has begun at the HIVE! Our first step is to put down a new floor, so we’re looking for 12″ x 12″ vinyl composition tile (VCT). Do you have leftovers from a flooring project at your home, business or organization? Any quantity, any color will help!
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Professor Wharton and Suzanne post about Glenwood. Dissonance.
From Suzanne’s new blog:
This is the around the 3rd or 4th Sunday that youth from Glenwood have come to sit with me in the “Big Service” at Grace after middle school Sunday school. I am so very happy that they are coming and can see that they are really learning about God.
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Greensboro’s Food Not Bombs feeds homeless people three times a week. On Mondays evenings, they serve dinner at the Central Library, downtown. On Tuesday and Thursday evenings, they serve at St. Mary’s, at Tate and Walker, near UNCG.
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