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…
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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…
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…
Gift givers sought for Pastor’s Pantry clients
Pastor’s Pantry needed a larger Christmas tree this year to hold all the cards for its still-growing list of clients. As difficult economic conditions persist, a total of 480 cards, about 14 percent more than last year, cover the newly displayed tree in the front lobby of the pantry, a nonprofit food bank for senior…
Pack A Pickup sets new record
The Third Annual Pack A Pickup food drive at Sam’s Car Wash in Lexington on Saturday brought in 4,575 food items for Pastor’s Pantry, setting a record for the third consecutive year. Cloudy skies and the threat of rain during the six-hour drive might have scared away some potential donors who had hoped to capitalize…
DCCC garden supplies fresh veggies
Pastor’s Pantry clients can look forward to receiving fresh vegetables from Davidson County Community College’s Community Garden. On Tuesday, July 13, DCCC biology instructor Holly Weir and 17 children and five teachers from the college’s Child Development Center presented Pastor’s Pantry with the first produce harvested from the 2,100-square-foot garden. This first haul was small…
Kentucky Derby party raises funds for Pantry
About 100 people came Saturday to the beautiful grounds at March Motorcars outside Lexington, NC, for a Kentucky Derby party to raise funds for Pastor’s Pantry. Guests watched the television broadcast of the famous horse race on a huge screen. They also cheered as four men raced across the March Motorcars lawn carrying glasses of…
