The Friendship Trays News Archive
2008
10-4-08 The week's economic bailout revives a tax break for donations out of some Individual Retirement Accounts.
9-30-08 A short video tribute to Friendship Trays co-founder Ann Elliot on the occasion of her birthday.
9-29-08 A video update on impact of gasoline shortage on Friendship Trays.
9-26-08 An update on impact of gasoline shortage, and link to News14's TV report on Friday's activity
9-25-08 Thursday recipients receive two meals, Friday deliveries cancelled as Friendship Trays responds to gasoline shortage.
9-25-08 Preparations are underway for this holiday season's Be A Santa To A Senior campaign.
9-17-08 A Duke Energy team packages food in the Friendship Trays kitchen.
9-17-08 Former Friendship Trays Executive Director Tia (McCutcheon) Athens visits South End.
9-15-08 A hurricane-induced gasoline shortage prompts calls for help from volunteers with gasoline in their vehicles.
9-10-08 We used our website to work around a phone disruption at our South End offices.
9-8-08 Skirt Magazine features Friendship Trays Executive Director Lucy Bush Carter.
9-9-08 About 30 visit our new distribution site during an open house on the campus of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church.
9-2-08 Vanguard Group team drives routes.
8-29-08 The Macy's "Shop for a Cause" promotion will help support Friendship Trays. Learn how you can participate.
8-29-08 A joint effort between teams from Duke Energy and Vanguard Group helped package meals for Friendship Trays.
8-25-08 Food donation from
Trader Joe's puts in
the trays today a rare treat: steak.
8-20-08 Fall newsletter is available as PDF download or as separate pages on this website.
8-15-08 Duke Power schedules a pole replacement affecting power at Friendship Trays; meal delivers not affected.
8-11-08 When volunteers are away....
7-30-08 Goodrich Corp. employees deliver Friendship Trays
7-30-08 All ages are welcome to volunteer at Friendship Trays, and BofA Card Services employees brought their children.
7-21-08 Sprint employees donate tons of food for Friendship Trays meals.
7-18-08 Work teams from Bank of America and Wachovia merge to serve in the Friendship Trays kitchen.
7-13-08 Weekend deliveries end, in part to save gasoline. Recipients needing weekend meals will received them Fridays.
7-11-08 Staff members of the Charlotte Bobcats organization help prepare meals in the kitchen.
7-2-08 Determined volunteers, private gifts help Friendship Trays succeed as other meals-on-wheels programs are forced to cut back.
7-1-08 Youth from Catholic Heart Workcamp are at Friendship Trays painting and gardening in active community service.
7-1-08 Routes get rebuilt every day at Friendship Trays as recipients' needs change.
7-1-08 "It doesn't matter what you drive" -- One in a series
6-27-08 A
new volunteer,
age 6, learns a route in front of Friendship Trays' route
map.
6-25-08 Wachovia internal auditors volunteer in the kitchen.
6-9-08 A new drop site on Beatties Ford Road will save volunteer drivers time and gasoline as they serve north and northwest routes.
6-6-08 Friendship Trays held a Fish Fry fund-raiser curbside on Distribution Street.
6-3-08 Friendship Trays' funding differs from Wake County meals-on-wheels program featured in a recent news story.
5-29-08 Kitchen volunteers were preparing chicken parmesan for recipients today.
5-29-08 Students in Class 31 of the Community Culinary School of Charlotte hold their first BISTRO!
5-23-08 Friendship Trays announces it will not deliver meals on Memorial Day.
5-23-08 Duke Energy serves in the kitchen.
5-21-08 From the skies over Friendship Trays, a congratulations to all area graduates this commencement season.
5-18-08 Charlotte Roller Girls win fourth straight bout with lopsided 178-30 win against Roanoke's Star City Roller Girls.
5-12-08 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Aging Coalition prepares evacuation supplies for seniors.
5-8-08 Longtime volunteer Linda Kincheloe was working in the kitchen when she received a singing telegram for her birthday.
5-8-08
TIAA-CREF sends volunteers to mark Giving Back for the
Greater Good Service Days.
5-7-08 Friendship Trays co-founder Ann Elliot is honored by the Council on Aging.
5-2-08 A food donation from Trader Joe's brightens a Friday meal for hundreds of Friendship Trays recipients.
4-16-08 "It doesn't matter what you drive" -- One in a series
4-15-08 Conversion to chilled meals is complete: Last hot meals for home delivery are prepared.
4-2-08 Watch a movie and see the list of winners from the 1st Annual Realtor Challenge Bowl-a-thon at Centennial Lanes.
3-31-08 The Wienermobile delivers Friendship Trays.
3-26-08 Mayor Pro Tem Susan Burgess and Commissioners Chair Jennifer Roberts deliver meals.
3-17-08 Prudential Carolinas Realty holds another chili cookoff, and Friendship Trays is the winner.
3-7-09 Charlotte Roller Girls deliver meals for Friendship Trays.
3-3-08 Finance Enterprise Associates from Wachovia volunteer in the Friendship Trays kitchen.
3-2-08 Charlotte Roller Girls will meet the New River Valley Roller Girls March 16 at Cricket Arena.
3-1-08 All are welcome to register for the First Annual Realtor Challenge Bowl-a-thon, set for April 2 at 5 p.m. on South Boulevard.
2-27-08
Help Friendship Trays
go green: The
black trays now in use are recyclable.
2-27-08 Alan Feinstein will give $1 million to hunger-fighting agencies. Our donors will decide how much gets to Friendship Trays.
1-31-08 It's a Bistro!
1-29-08 Employees of LarsonAllen's Charlotte office support Friendship Trays by paying to dress down in jeans.
1-29-08 Short, silent video of clips from trackside at Charlotte Roller Girls bout posted at YouTube.
1-27-08 Charlotte Roller Girls stage first roller derby in Charlotte since the1970s. Portion of proceeds to support Friendship Trays.
1-17-08 Find a niche and take action, Executive Director Lucy Bush urges folks wanting to fight homelessness, poverty or hunger.
1-8-08 Joseph-Beth Booksellers to stage Book Fair Sunday, Jan. 13. Portion of proceeds go to Friendship Trays.
2007
12-24-07 The usual magic at Friendship Trays this holiday deliver day -- and then some. Pictures from the morning.
12-13-07 Charlotte artist and Friendship Trays recipient Wallace Ervin has a painting on display in the Friendship Trays lobby.
12-10-07 Joseph-Beth Booksellers plans a Book Fair Jan. 13, 2008 to benefit Friendship Trays.
12-6-07 Members of Team BofA ladled beans and okra. Your group can also help out during the holidays.
12-4-07 Some of the trees auctioned at the Festival of Trees are donated to Friendship Trays recipieints.
11-13-07 Training begins with staff who will used the computer-controlled "blast chiller."
11-7-07 Crane returns to pluck compressor from roof: An update on cool meals conversion.
11-1-07
Community Culinary School of Charlotte hosts another scrumptious
Bistro!
10-30-07 Fed Ex drivers deliver on seven routes.
10-29-07 An update on preparations for cool meals conversion.
10-22-07 First Presbyterian publishes "Inspired Cooking" cookbook. Proceeds benefit organizations feeding the hungry.
10-19-07 Elevation Church members and Pastor Steven Furtick serve in kitchen, commit to $25,000 donation.
10-11-07 Friendship Trays celebrates its volunteers at appreciation dinner.
9-17-07 Fight hunger: Lace up your shoes and join the CROP Walk on Sunday, Oct. 14.
9-14-07 More equipment arrives for cool-meals conversion.
9-14-07 Drought-starved tomatoes from the Sardis Presbyterian garden are right-sized for Friendship Trays meal boxes.
9-6-07 Some members of Team Vanguard helped in the kitchen, while others paired up to drive 10 routes.
8-31-07
Panthers mascot Sir
Purr is a hit with recipients as he helps Cameron McCutcheon
deliver a route..
8-30-07 Friendship Trays named September "Friend of Earth Fare." Events and support opportunities planned at SouthPark store.
8-16-07 Becky and Gary Workman often have a grandchild helping as they deliver a Friendship Trays route.
8-15-07 Conversion to cool meals announced.
8-15-07 Summer intern organizes food drive for Carrier Corp. employees.
8-8-07 Volunteer driver racks up points for Charlotte Chamber's Amazing Race challenge.
8-2-07 Sprint employees donate more than five tons of food during annual Feed the Need campaign.
7-26-07 Members of Team Wachovia served up trays in the kitchen.
7-24-07 Longtime Friendship Trays volunteer extraordinaire Bob Williams was back for a visit.
7-13-07 Lots of hands pitched in to bag lunches for 600 Freedom Schools students.
7-11-07 Team BMW prepared meals, then drove a route. How four volunteers made a difference, and how you can do the same.
7-6-07
How donated
zucchini and
yellow squash landed in Friendship Trays meals. A tale of
farmers and nonprofits working together.
7-3-07 Ten win in another drawing for gasoline cards to help volunteers with a cost they bear delivering Friendship Trays.
7-2-07 Youth from Catholic Heart Workcamp helped out in the kitchen, then took to sprucing up the parking lot.
6-29-07 Friendship Trays receives $500 check, a successful conclusion to Alan Feinstein's $1 million giveaway challenge.
6-21-07 A child holds a violin in her hands in the foyer of Friendship Trays.
6-19-07 Fifth-graders from Carmel Presbyterian Vacation Bible School help out in Breadland, then deliver meals.
6-16-07 The Mecklenburg Medical Alliance and Endowment honors Ann Elliot for work promoting health in Charlotte.
6-14-07 Friendship Trays intern and violinist Mejin Leechor entertained visitors during the Culinary School's Bistro.
6-11-07 Washington-based advocacy group honors Friendship Trays co-founder Ann Elliot as a "community champion."
6-4-07 Poverty simulation is a learning exercise for nonprofit agency board members about the impact of "helping" programs.
6-4-07 Charlotte artist Carla Leaf captured Friendship Trays' history and mission in a drawing.
6-1-07 Charlotte Observer report says Charlotte-area large nonprofits chalked up the lowest average overhead costs in a 30-city study by nonprofit watchdog Charity Navigator. The Observer said Friendship Trays' Lucy Bush Carter was listed as having the lowest CEO salary among the 29 Charlotte-area nonprofits in the Charity Navigator study.
5-14-07 More than 90 golfers took to the fairways in the 13th Annual Driving Away Hunger Golf Tournament.
5-11-07 Nineteen Friendship Trays volunteers star in a movie thanking donors for their support.
5-4-07 Actor Richard Gere appears in tributes to his father Homer's 18 years of service delivering meals to his neighbors in Syracuse, N.Y. In a February 2007 column, Meals on Wheels Association CEO Enid Borden recounts how the PSAs came together.
5-2-07 Produce from The Bradford Store east of Huntersville is making its way into Friendship Trays meals.
4-27-07 Here's a map and directions to help you find us in South End.
4-26-07 Link your Food Lion MVP card to Friendship Trays and donate every time you buy groceries.
4-16-07 Friendship Trays yanked yesterday's technology out of storage to get meals out after a windstorm cut all electricity.
4-13-07 Photos from the South End Fish Fry. Proceeds went to support Friendship Trays.
4-7-07 The Elliot Corps gets A's for its E's and L's. How one one group of women pitches in at Friendship Trays.
4-4-07 Make a bid for the Traveling Chair.
4-1-07
Panthers official
Donnie Shell talks
about what he gets from driving a route.
3-26-07 Sardis Presbyterian volunteers have been delivering for over a quarter century.
3-23-07 Volunteers from Compass Group took over in the kitchen.
3-19-07 Post all the details in your office about the April 13 Fish Fry.
3-14-07 Your donation by April 30 counts toward Alan Feinstein's $1 million challenge.
3-8-07 The 13th Annual Driving Away Hunger Golf Tournament announced for May 14.
2-14-07 Five volunteers win $25 gas cards to help pay fuel costs in drawing prompted by an anonymous donor's gift
2-8-07 Community Culinary School students show off their skills at Bistro
2-2-07 Prudential Carolinas Realty donates proceeds from 3rd Annual Chili Cook-Off
1-29-07 Anonymous donor's gift spawns a drawing open to Friendship Trays volunteers to help with their gasoline costs
2006
11-27-06
Schneider Corp.
donation marks its opening of a new facility.
9-29-06 Prudential Carolinas Realty agents collecting canned goods for Friendship Trays snow days.
5-26-06 Longtime volunteers honored at Volunteer Appreciation Dinner.
1-13-06 Prudential Carolinas Realty agents begin donating $10 from every home-closing.
2005
5-5-05 Earth Fare designates Friendship Trays its June charity of the month.
Friendship Trays, 2401-A Distribution St. Charlotte, NC 28203 voice 704-333-9229 fax 704-333-5947
Delivering, in a caring and friendly manner,
balanced meals to individuals in this community
who are unable, because of age or infirmity, to obtain and prepare their own
meal