Friendship Trays newsletters


Fall 2008 Download or view on web pages

-- Wait times have been reduced near existing routes, but some prospective recipients on the edge of the county cannot be served until volunteer drivers become available.
-- Vignettes describe some of our recipients and why volunteers keep making it possible for this mission to succeed.












Spring 2008

-- Chillled meals at halfway point in conversion.
-- Going "green" -- one black tray at a time.
-- Your donation before April 30 will help a philanthropist support us.
-- Group home residents are delivering meals, serving their neighbors.

 

 

 




Fall 2007

-- Update on conversion from "hot" to "cool" meals and equipment installation.
-- "Social enterprise" at Friendship Trays: Seeking ways to sustain the mission.
-- Lu Daumer continues, at age 99, to deliver meals to those in need.

 

 

 

 

 


August 2007

-- Conversion to higher-quality, tastier meals begins with installation of a "blast-chiller."
-- Q&A on how the conversion will affect recipients, volunteers.
 

 

 

 

 


July 2007

-- Recipients sound off on menu, service issues.
-- Frances Jackson has recruited a dozen or so drivers from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center.
-- How a truckload of zucchini and yellow squash made its way from Union County into recipients' meals.

 

 

 

 

 

May 2007

-- The Bradford Store's fresh-from-the-farm-outside produce is being served to recipients
-- Volunteers are the stars in a May fund-raising appeal
-- The morning the lights went out ... the A Team ...  moving day for a recipient ... and more.

 

 

 

 


April 2007

-- Panthers official drives a route, finds it a way to be "getting involved and helping" those in need
-- UNCC intern says Friendship Trays' culture of "making sure someone else is OK" reminds her of home
-- The delivery of a 62-pound box marks the beginning of preparations for Festival of Trees 2007

 

 

 

 

Spring 2007

-- Workplace teams of volunteers play key role in the kitchen and on the road
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Golf tournament benefit is May 14; Festival of Trees on Dec. 1 to support Friendship Trays
-- From chilled food to additional pickup sites, we're examining ways to improve service
-- Recipient notes, a philanthropist's challenge, and a drawing to help volunteers pay for gas

 

 

 

Summer-Fall 2006

-- Lucy's appeal to area congregations to be part of "this transforming work"
-- Myers Park Methodist's James Howell on feeding the hungry as part of Christian life
-- Rabbi James Bennett on his reaction to driving a route
-- Debbie White finds "sense of worth" unlike any other volunteer work from driving a Friendship trays route. A minute-by-minute account of a morning on Route 23.

 

 


Spring 2006

-- Lucy on Friendship Trays growth, change and a huge unmet need
-- Deadline looms for May golf fund-raiser
-- 2005 Community Service Award












Summer 2005

-- Lucy asks, Where has the summer gone?
-- "Friend of Earth Fare" charity coming up
-- Golf tournament












Spring 2005

-- Board announces promotion of Lucy Bush Carter to Executive Director of Friendship Traysl
-- Letter from board president