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Mid Hudson Times, Wednesday, April 13, 2016
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New Windsor.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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Service Directory. . . . . . . . . . . 34
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St. Francis renames food pantry in honor of Deacon Jack
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Hudson Valley.
On the first day that it opened, the
food pantry served all of three families,
said food pantry Co-Director Paul
Zalanowski. “Thirteen thousand families
have been served in three quarters of
a year,” he said, thanking the many
volunteers responsible. “We have served
approximately 55,000 people over the last
year.”
Marietta Allen recalled when a chapter
of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul was
founded at the church. “Deacon Jack
was the first president,” Allen said. “It
was decided that providing food for the
poor would be a top priority… so the
St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry was
launched out of a closet in the St. Francis
School on Renwick Street.”
Money was tight back then, said Allen,
but “God always provided.” The pantry
grew and moved into O’Connor Hall, and
then into the current building across
the street from the church on Benkard
Avenue. “Lines started getting longer,”
she said. “The seed started sprouting.”
Seymour, tasked by then pastor
Father John Vondras to open the pantry,
recalled, “We were running around like
chickens with our heads cut off. I enjoyed
every minute of it.”
In 2004, Seymour moved on to St. Mary’s
Church. Allen eventually took over as
director of the food pantry, and later went
on to start a food pantry at St. Mary’s. In
the aftermath of St. Mary’s closure last
year, Deacon Seymour returned Ѽ