Nine Council 11369 members joined the crew involved with the monthly Operation Blessing food distribution at the Canfield Presbyterian Church on Thursday November 18th, helping to hand out canned items, frozen chickens, bread and more to 100 qualifying families.

We plan to continue this cooperative venture in place of our traditional holiday food drive, since the 35-year-old Operation Blessing has the contacts with both the needy and the suppliers to make a food pantry work.

We unloaded trucks, packed chickens into plastic bags, and loaded food bags for distribution.

We also wrote a check for $1000, $500 as requested for new toys for a toy distribution at the church in December.

The other $500 went for a surplus of chickens, 100 of which Brother Knights delivered to Skip’s soup kitchen, Dorothy Day House and more.