Save the Date for CROP Walk - Sunday, September 28, 2025.
Food Pantry News
Our last FPCU Food Pantry of 2025 on Monday, June 30, was another busy one. In my estimation, we had at least 100 families, many with kids in tow since school is now out. I believe we are anticipating an increase in customers because children will not be receiving free breakfast and lunch like they do during the school year.
Thank you to Joe Farrell for picking up food from the Shur-Save and taking back the cardboard. Thank you to Alexis Shafer for picking up the eggs from Ovid and working at the distribution. Thank you to the DeCloux family for donating eggs. Thank you to Maureen Shallish for keeping the Emergency Call Book. We could not run the food pantry without our wonderful volunteers, so thank you to Judy Riley, Ginny Miller, Neil Shallish, Ken MacLeod, Carol MacLeod, Karen Perkins, Amy Erickson, and Bobbi Farrell. I am always appreciative of those people who volunteer without me having to twist arms, so to speak. As soon as I have the data from this pantry, I will send out another email.
We also received some good news from Sarah Brainard in the form of monetary grants and awards, one of which was (I think) $6,000, to help the food pantry meet the needs of our customers. We are also getting a grant from the Geneva Presbytery that will come in 2 installments and help purchase food, cleaning supplies, and personal care products. The pantry continues to receive “rescued food” from the Burdett Dandy. This time it was 4 or 5 crates of single serving cartons of 1% milk. We gave a lot away, but had some left over that Maureen and Neil gave to Loaves and Fishes. So, thank you, everybody, for your help these last 2 months.
Bottle and Can Recycling
You can help local youth in need and do your spring cleaning at the same time. When you return your bottles and cans for refunds you can help the Caring and Mission Ministry Team support the Local Youth Initiative. This supports the nurses’ emergency funds for local student in need at the Trumansburg and South Seneca Schools. Return your bottles and cans to:
1. The T-burg Shur-Save recycling and take the paper receipts to the service desk and have them put it in the Presbyterian local you initiative pouch… or
2. The Trumansburg Redemption Center (it has just reopened) on Main Street next to the Post Office. Tell them to put the money in the Presbyterian “jar” and they will sort the bottles and cans for you.
Thank you for your past and continuing support!
Little Free Library
“Business” will pick up as the weather improves. On the warm days the library has been pretty empty when I’ve checked! Fiction and non-fiction for adults needed, if you have any you are ready to pass on. Thanks for all the contributions for children, YA and adults dropped off in the little library and left in kitchen in the bin. They move the fastest! Thanks to you who stop and tidy and add books---they are stored on the shelves along the ramp in the Fellowship Hall. Any help appreciated by me and readers! ~ Carolyn Lange
First Presbyterian Church of Ulysses
69 E. Main Street
P.O. Box 597
Trumansburg, NY 14866
607-387-8185
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