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Food Banks Receive Donations from Seton Center Helping Hands

Community Show Program

Photo by Deb Abraham Spalding
Seton Center, Courtesy Photo
Inc.’s Outreach Office
in Emmitsburg offers
a holiday program
called Helping
Hands. At Easter
and Thanksgiving,
income-eligible
families receive local
food store gift cards,
so they may purchase
foods and prepare
a holiday meal
according to their
unique traditions.
This Thanksgiving,
because of the

Pictured left to right are Cathy Little, Rodman Myers, Harold Bollinger, Sue Keilholtz, and community’s support,
Margaret Black. seventy area families participated and were able to enjoy a less stressful, more
dignifying holiday celebration.
On November 20, 2017, proceeds from the sale of this year’s Grand At Christmas, the Helping Hands program provides food store gift cards
Champion Junior and Youth Department Champion Cakes at the Thurmont for meals and retail store gift cards for children, ages thirteen to eighteen, to
and Emmitsburg Community Show generated funds that were combined with purchase gifts. Generous sponsors also provide unwrapped Christmas presents
the Show’s Silver Offering donations and donated to the Emmitsburg Food for children, ages up to twelve. The donated gifts are arranged in store-like
Bank and the Thurmont Food Bank (pictured above). fashion, so parents may visit Seton Center to choose gifts from their children’s
wish list.
Cliff Sweeney (pictured above) visited to drop off $1,000 in Jubilee Foods
and Walmart gift cards from the Emmitsburg Sons of the American Legion
Go to page 9 to play the Where Am I? and Hidden to Seton Center’s Director Sister Martha Beaudoin (pictured above) for the
Object games! How strong is your vocabulary Helping Hands program.
knowledge? Take our Word Power Test to find out! If you are interested in participating as a recipient, call 301-447-6102 x11.
To partner with Seton Center as a sponsor, call 301-447-6102 x13.