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Holiday Meals

Annual Red Cross Thanksgiving Dinner:

Veterans of Foreign Wars, 423 State Street, 1 pm November 17th.

Loaves & Fishes is CLOSED on Thanksgiving Day (as usual)

Salvation Army Thanksgiving Meal Date: Thursday November 24 Time: Doors open at 11:30 am Full Course meal served at Noon Place: 150 North Albany St, Ithaca NY For more information about the Thanksgiving Meal call the Salvation Army office at 273-2400

Spencer Federated Church: Wed, Nov 23, 12-3pm. Call church at 589-4412 or 589-4653 and leave a message that you are coming and # of people attending. Reservations not necessary, however.

Comunity Meals

FOODNET
Eligibility:
60+ years old or disabled and living in the building where congregate meals are served.

Foodnet main phone number: 266-9553

All meals served at Noon, Monday - Friday

Center Village Court, Groton, NY [279-9145]
Titus Towers, Ithaca, NY [273-5297]
Woodsedge Apartments, Lansing, NY [279-9146]
The First Baptist Church, Trumansburg, NY [387-3015]

American Red Cross Friendship Center
618 West State Street, Ithaca, NY
273-6684 (Crystal Giles)
Lunches, Tuesdays & Thursdays
Snacks, Monday - Saturday

Dryden United Methodist Church
Corner North and Main Streets, Dryden, NY
(607) 844-9861
2nd & 4th Wednesdays, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Home Delivered / FOODNET Select
Eligibility: 60+ years old, home-bound, unable to cook, and ill or disabled
266-9553
Two meals per day, 5 days a week (weekend meals given in advance)
$3.00 contribution (voluntary) suggested for persons age 60+; $6.00 fee per meal for persons age 59 and under. Insurance or other third party payments accepted.

Loaves & Fishes
St. John's Episcopal Church
210 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca, NY
272-5457
Noon, Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays
6:00 pm, Tuesdays & Thursdays
All welcome at Loaves and Fishes meals - no suggested income.

Our Brother's (and Sister's)Table
Salvation Army
150 North Albany Street, Ithaca, NY
273-2400
Noon, Saturday
3 pm, Sunday

Tompkins County has the fortune to host many different places where one can obtain free food or prepared meals.

Food pantries are listed below, hot meals are listed to the right.

Do you qualify for food stamps or WIC? Find out here: mybenefits.ny.gov

Food Pantries
(Updated 10/14/2010)

For Daily Pantry listings, see

Ithaca Journal, "Daily Events", page 2B

Weekly Advantage/Pennysaver

Tompkins Weekly

For Eligibility Rules, please contact individual food pantries or meal sites.

Monday	American Red Cross 717 West Court Street, Ithaca, NY 273-9177 (call for emergencies) 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Caroline Food Pantry Brooktondale Community Center 522 Valley Road, Caroline, NY 539-9928 (Pat Brhel) 539-7930 (Cullie Mowers) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm, 1st & 3rd Mondays Dryden Kitchen Cupboard Dryden Presbyterian Church (Red Brick Church) 6 North Street, Dryden, NY 844-8321 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Freeville Food Pantry Freeville United Methodist Church 37 Main Street, Freeville, NY 844-8760 (Church) 844-5281 (Parsonage) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm, 2nd & 4th Mondays Ithaca Kitchen Cupboard Salvation Army 150 North Albany Street, Ithaca, NY 273-2400 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Lansing Food Pantry Lansing Methodist Church 32 Brickyard Rd, Lansing, NY 533-4070 Jan. - Oct. (Except May); 4th Monday; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, May and Nov. & Dec., 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, 3rd Monday, Tompkins Community Action 701 Spencer Rd, Ithaca, NY 273-8816, ext. 137 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm, plus emergencies Trumansburg Food Pantry Trumansburg United Methodist Church Corner of Main & `South Streets, Trumansburg, NY 387-8260 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, & 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm, every other Monday, plus emergencies
Tuesday	American Red Cross 717 West Court Street, Ithaca, NY 273-9177 (call for emergencies) 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Enfield Food Distribution Enfield Community Building 182 Enfield Main Road, Enfield, NY 273-5682 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm, 2nd & 4th Tuesday Mobile Food Panty 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm, 2nd Tuesday Ithaca Kitchen Cupboard Salvation Army 150 North Albany Street, Ithaca, NY 273-2400 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Immaculate Conception Church Seneca near Geneva St, Ithaca, NY 273-6121 1:00 pm to 1:45 pm - until all are served Tompkins Community Action 701 Spencer Rd, Ithaca, NY 273-8816, ext. 137 11:30 am - 2:00 pm, plus emergencies
Wednesday	American Red Cross 717 West Court Street, Ithaca, NY 273-9177 (call for emergencies) 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Baptized Church of Jesus Christ 412 First Street, Ithaca, NY 277-6140 10:00 am - 12:30 pm Candor Food Pantry Route 96 across from Post Office, Candor, NY 3:00pm - 6:00pm Dryden Kitchen Cupboard Dryden Presbyterian Church (Red Brick Church) 6 North Street, Dryden, NY 844-8321 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Ithaca Kitchen Cupboard Salvation Army 150 North Albany Street, Ithaca, NY 273-2400 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Newfield Kitchen Cupboard Newfield United Methodist Church 227 Main Street, Newfield, NY 564-7860 (Barbara Walker) 564-7823 (Church) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm, 1st & 3rd Wednesdays, plus emergencies
Thursday	American Red Cross 717 West Court Street, Ithaca, NY 273-9177 (call for emergencies) 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Danby Food Pantry (for Danby residents) Danby Federated Church 1859 Danby Road, Danby, NY 273-7850 Joan Barber 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm, Thursday before 3rd Friday Halsey Valley Pantry GAR Building Hamilton Road, Halsey Valley, NY 272-6758 (Sara Pines); 275-3076 (Barbara Gizewski) 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Ithaca Kitchen Cupboard Salvation Army 150 North Albany Street, Ithaca, NY 273-2400 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Southside Community Center 305 South Plain Street, Ithaca, NY 273-4190 (Chana Perkins) 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, 3rd Thursday
Friday	American Red Cross 717 West Court Street, Ithaca, NY 273-9177 (call for emergencies) 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Danby Food Pantry (for Danby residents) Danby Federated Church 1859 Danby Road, Danby, NY 273-7850 Joan Barber 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, 3rd Friday Dryden Kitchen Cupboard Dryden Presbyterian Church (Red Brick Church) 6 North Street, Dryden, NY 844-8321 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Ithaca Kitchen Cupboard Salvation Army 150 North Albany Street, Ithaca, NY 273-2400 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Interlaken Reformed Church 8315 Main Street, Interlaken, NY 532-4321 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Saturday	American Red Cross 717 West Court Street, Ithaca, NY 273-9177 (call for emergencies) 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Baptized Church of Jesus Christ 412 First Street, Ithaca, NY 277-6140 10:00 am - 12:30 pm, 3rd Saturday Dryden Kitchen Cupboard Dryden Presbyterian Church (Red Brick Church) 6 North Street, Dryden, NY 844-8321 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, last Saturday Groton Food Providers Joyce Crouch Benevolence Building 101 McKinley Ave, Groton, NY 898-3822 10:00 am - 11:00 am, 2nd & 4th Saturday Living Wage Coalition (Tompkins County Workers' Center) Linderman Creek, Community Room #1 201 Cypress Court, Ithaca, NY 269-1000 Noon, 2nd Saturday McLean Community Church 50 Church Street, McLean, NY 838-8234 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm, 4th Saturday Northside Project 1:00 pm Parkside Project 1:00 pm Plain Street Project (Rain Location Southside Community Center Gymnasium on Plain Street) Plain Street, Ithaca, NY Outdoor Pantry 1:00 pm, 1st Saturday
Sunday	American Red Cross 717 West Court Street, Ithaca, NY 273-9177 (call for emergencies) 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Overlook Apts Community Room Rt. 96, Ithaca, NY 12:00 pm, Alternating Sundays: 10/17, 10/31, 11/14, 11/28, and so on....
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