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Welcome to the Community Pantry. Our regular hours are:
Friday: 4pm – 6pm
Saturday: 10am – 12pm
If you are experiencing food insecurity, we are here for you. Recipients will be welcomed into the Pantry a few people at a time, and during this time of increased need- we will be serving people from our welcome table. Homebound recipients are able to have food delivered to them once per month.
We always need volunteers! All volunteers must be fully vaccinated. All volunteers are trained in safe sanitation guidelines for food bank volunteers.
At this time we have the following continuity and prevention measures in place to ensure the safety of our staff, volunteers and clients:
We are accepting some food donations - fresh produce and food that is packaged. We cannot take home cooked food but welcome veggies, fruit, as well as peanut butter, jelly, coffee, tuna fish and other canned or packaged foods. No expired foods, please. We only accept food donations during opening hours.
About Us
A small Food pantry was set up in Margaretville nearly twenty years ago to help impoverished community members, but when Middletown was hit by Hurricane Irene in August of 2011, the Pantry was flooded out. Thanks to the Interfaith Council and devoted volunteers, the Pantry was up and running three months later, in a somewhat diminished capacity, once again serving their client base.
Recognizing the need for a more comprehensive and inclusive operation, the Food Pantry was reincarnated in August of 2012 under a new name, “The Community Pantry,” and moved to a more convenient, and flood-free location.
Since that time, the Pantry increased its client base from forty to more than two hundred families. The Pantry is eager to continue distributing much needed emergency food supplies, and with your help we hope to establish a tradition of reaching and teaching this largely under-served segment of our population.