By Jessica Able, Record Staff Writer Children served by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul now have a new facility where they can gather afer school to eat a snack and get help with their homework. The new 11,500-square-foot Family Success Center on South Preston St. officially opened at the end of September and…
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Honeywell Volunteers Lend Helping Hand to St. Vincent de Paul
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – A Louisville charity that provides free meals to the poor and homeless got a helping hand itself Saturday as volunteers from Honeywell helped the organization with much needed improvements to its facilities. About 35 volunteers helped to repaint St. Vincent de Paul’s Open Hand Kitchen, located in a former church sanctuary….
St. Vincent Success Center Opens
Bailey Loosemore, bloosemore@courier-journal.com For a single parent of two teenagers, after-school activities don’t come cheap. Craig Acres used to take his 13-year-old twins, Jasmine and Jeffrey, to play basketball, visit parks, walk around the zoo — anything to keep them out of trouble. But costs were adding up for the residents of the St. Vincent de…
We Did It!
Thanks to all who responded to our Calls to Action! St. Vincent de Paul | Louisville now has earned $5,000 for our new Food Pantry, because we were able to keep Dare to Care Food Bank, our primary food supplier, in Walmart’s Fight Hunger Spark Change Top 50 Food Banks in America campaign that ended…