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Look Who We Found in the Garden

Look Who We Found in the Garden

by | Sep 30, 2022 | News

The Chester Eastside – St. Paul’s Community Garden is more than a place to grow fruits and veggies. In early August we found three little fluff balls, eyes still shut, nestled in the wheelbarrow. An orange feral cat lingered nearby. She kept her eye on her kittens,...
Everybody Back on the Food Train

Everybody Back on the Food Train

by | Sep 28, 2022 | News

Summer is always a difficult time for food donations (this year was harder than normal); at the same time, the number of folks served regularly through the Food Pantry continues to increase. Now that it’s fall and our thoughts have returned from the shore (or the...
From Eating to Fishing to Owning

From Eating to Fishing to Owning

by | Sep 18, 2022 | News

Likely you’ve heard it before: Give a person a fish, and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to fish, and you feed them for a lifetime. I get it, and I can’t (won’t) disagree. Hungry people need food, and they need it now. Recognizing this, we...
Oodles of School Supplies

Oodles of School Supplies

by | Sep 4, 2022 | News

Chester Eastside has become backpack central, with bookbags, spiral notebooks, Trapper Keepers, pens, pencils, markers. Many thanks to the local churches and businesses that collected and delivered them – you help our children start the school year ready to...