Photo: The ribbon cutting. The Belmont Food Pantry has a new home, one its founder hopes will remain for years to come. On its first Saturday, Feb. 16, at its new location on the first floor of Town Hall, the pantry’s volunteers welcomed a large number of the 200 families which are served by the […]
Photo: The Town Hall entry to what will become the home of the Belmont Food Pantry. After journeying from site and site over the years, the Belmont Food Pantry will be moving to Belmont Center as the quarter-century non-profit has found a new, and hopefully permanent home in Belmont’s Town Hall. The pantry, which began […]
Photo: (from left) Patty Mihelich of the Belmont Food Pantry receiving a check for nearly $2,500 from Amy Starzec and Belmont Police Chief Rich McLaughlin. Belmont’s second annual Gun Buy Back resulted in making the community a bit safer and the Belmont Food Pantry a little richer. Belmont Police Chief Richard J. McLaughlin reported that the Held this past […]
Photo: The move. When the “Burbank Brownies” of Girl Scout Troop 69200 arrived at the Belmont Food Pantry behind Belmont High School on Saturday morning, July 30, Patty Mihelich beamed. The founder and manager of the pantry welcomed them to join nearly 50 residents in helping to transport the pantry’s entire contents – two rooms […]
Photo: The new logo. Like a friend who calls in July and August, the Belmont Food Pantry wants to know: “Can you help them move to their new home?” The Belmont Food Pantry is on the move, and by the end of next week – if all goes to plan – the site which serves […]
Photo: A busy Belmont Food Pantry on Belmont Serves. It’s nail-biting time for the Belmont Food Pantry. With a little more than five weeks before the non-profit will be forced to move from its current home in a modular unit at the rear of Belmont High School, the pantry – which assists more than 200 […]
Photo: Jimmy Tingle, in the flesh. Humor for Humanity and A Path Appears in Belmont are pleased to announce an opportunity to both give and get and feel good about it as they host comedian/political pundit Jimmy Tingle in his show: “Jimmy Tingle for President/The Funniest Campaign in History” this Saturday, May 7 at 7:30 p.m. […]
Photo: Everyone pitched in at Monday’s Belmont Serves. Wearing gloves and carrying a clipboard, Mary Lewis was spending a beautiful Columbus Day morning getting dirty. As one of two coordinators at the Burbank Elementary School, Lewis had a long list of projects that needed to be done during the sixth annual Belmont Serves day of community service. […]
Photo: Reilly Lubien and Patty Mihelich at the Belmont Food Pantry. This past winter, Unity Avenue’s Reilly Lubien was worried that some fellow Belmont residents might “not have supplies; you know, they might be unhydrated.” So the Wellington Elementary kindergartener set out to collect money, first, from her parents and close relatives, then took to her mom’s […]
More than 200 Belmont residents sacrificed lingering in bed or taking a long, Columbus Day breakfast on Monday morning, Oct. 13 to work to make their town a little bit better. Starting out at 9 a.m. from St. Joseph’s Parish on Common Street, they took off to spread, hacked, lugged, painted, sorted and planted until […]