It’s a double-header! Two unconnected major events this weekend will help Pastor’s Pantry. On Saturday (May 5) from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. at March Motorcars, 3132 Old U.S. Highway 52, Lexington, NC, the agency will hold its third annual Kentucky Derby fundraiser, including a telecast of the horse race, derby hat contest, human footraces across…
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Get help with that Kentucky Derby hat!
Pastor’s Pantry has added a second event to its popular annual Kentucky Derby Day fundraiser. On Saturday, April 21, just two weeks before the world famous horse race, a workshop at the historic Homestead in uptown Lexington will help party goers decorate hats for the big day. While enjoying wine and snacks from 2…
The Gathering Band plays for Pastor’s Pantry
The monthly First Thursday Lunch-In for Pastor’s Pantry became the first Tuesday Supper-In in March. In a specially scheduled program, The Gathering Band played contemporary worship music for two dozen Pastor’s Pantry supporters at First Presbyterian Church in Lexington. The band is comprised of Jack Harman on electric guitar, Ken Davis…
Elks, Food Lion provide $2,000 worth of food
The Elks’ motto is “Elks Care and Elks Share.” We definitely agree. Lexington Elks Lodge No. 2527 used a grant from its national organization to buy $2,000 in groceries from Food Lion for Pastor’s Pantry. Pastor’s Pantry volunteers and a staff member picked up the food Monday. The groceries come at…
Baseball, books are focus of First Thursday
Just after completion of the most exciting World Series in years, come hear retired Davidson County Community College professor Ron Oakley talk about his book, ”Baseball’s Last Golden Age, 1946-1960.” Oakley is the featured speaker at the First Thursday Lunch-In for Pastor’s Pantry this Thursday, Nov. 3, from noon to 1 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 15 West Third…
Zombies walk to help Pastor’s Pantry
About 75 people of all ages, from children to seniors, dressed as Zombies on Saturday evening and walked from Smallwall Gallery in uptown Lexington to Pastor’s Pantry to deliver food donations and a monetary contribution. Three makeup artists stayed busy throughout the day at the art gallery at 18 West First Ave. giving walk participants some really gruesome fake scars and…
115 celebrate the Derby with Pastor’s Pantry
Dale-Manning Chesson won the Best Derby Hat contest, and Kristi Thornhill was runner-up. To see them in action and enjoy other events of the day, check out the Pastor’s Pantry 2nd Annual Kentucky Derby Party Video: Riding a stick horse and carrying a glass of cranberry juice on a tray, Zack Sink beat 15 challengers…
Create a hat for ‘Derby Day’
Inspired by all those fancy hats at the royal wedding? You can probably do even better. Design the hat of your dreams and wear it this Saturday, May 7, to the hat contest at Pastor’s Pantry’s Kentucky Derby fundraiser outside Lexington, N.C. You can win prizes. You can also watch the 137th…
Food drive will honor volunteer’s late husband
A food drive this Saturday will memorialize the late husband of a valuable Pastor’s Pantry volunteer. The event, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Big Lots on Winston Road in Lexington, will be conducted in memory of Billy H. Yarbrough, who passed away in June 2009 at age 73 after a battle with cancer,…
Uptown Christmas event will aid Pantry
Uptown Lexington’s annual Christmas Open House, scheduled this Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m., will help fill Pastor’s Pantry’s shelves with food. “Seventeen years ago, Uptown Lexington Inc. started Christmas Open House as a way for the community to celebrate the holiday season,” said Jo Ellen Edwards, Uptown Lexington’s executive director. “It also brought attention…
