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You Help Local Elementary Schools Feed Children In Need

A counselor helps a student in need select food at the A. Brian Merry Elementary School Market. The food pantry is part of Golden Harvest’s new focus in schools. Students can choose from shelves of nutritious food items and bring home food for the whole family. In an empty room lined with cupboards at the end of a hallway in A. Brian Merry Elementary, school counselor Stephanie Mack gets to work. She opens hanging cupboards lined with macaroni and cheese, canned chicken and sliced peaches. She arranges cans of chicken noodles soup, jars of peanut butter and [...]

You Help Local Elementary Schools Feed Children In Need2020-01-17T19:46:18+00:00

From Homeless to Helping Hand at The Master’s Table

Volunteer Antonio Jones serves the noontime meal at The Master’s Table Soup Kitchen. His experience of being homeless led him to want to help others who are struggling with hunger and homelessness. Three years ago, Antonio Jones was in a tough spot in Charleston, S.C. “All I had was a truck – a Chevy S10 - and I was sleeping at the park, going to the nearest gas station, washing up and going to work the next day,” Jones says. Back then he struggled; he didn’t know food banks like Golden Harvest or soup kitchens like The [...]

From Homeless to Helping Hand at The Master’s Table2020-01-17T19:39:25+00:00

Food Lion Stocks Richmond County Pantry

The staff of HisWay Food Pantry and Dana Barksdale of Food Lion smile in front of newly stocked food pantry shelves. The pantry won a Great Pantry Makeover from the Food Lion Feeds foundation. HisWay Food Pantry opened early one Monday morning in October for a special delivery. Volunteers unloaded 80 cases of nonperishable food items outside the pantry at Calvary Temple Assembly of God. Boxes of oatmeal, bags of flour, jars of jam, cans of vegetables and other pantry staples quickly filled the empty shelves. “This will probably last us two weeks,” said food bank director [...]

Food Lion Stocks Richmond County Pantry2020-01-17T19:10:47+00:00

You Help Jacquelyn With Fresh Foods

Jacquelyn loads bags filled with fresh produce, healthy shelf-stable food and frozen meat into her car at the SmartBox food pantry in Fairfax, S.C. Phyllis Smart gives the largest room of the building at Hampton Avenue and 6th Street in Fairfax, S.C., a last once over. A row of tables runs down the center, and volunteers begin to open 50-pound bags of potatoes, pull apples from boxes and stack frozen chicken livers on carts. They’re almost ready to serve up to 200 people at the SmartBox’s biweekly distribution, supplied by Golden Harvest Food Bank. They’re right on [...]

You Help Jacquelyn With Fresh Foods2020-01-17T19:08:06+00:00

Golden Harvest Food Bank Brings On New Executive Director

(l-r): Founding Executive Director Mike Firmin, new Executive Director Amy Breitmann and former Executive Director Travis McNeal share a smile in the Golden Harvest warehouse. AUGUSTA (1/6/2020) –Golden Harvest Food Bank’s Board of Directors announces Amy Breitmann as the Food Bank’s new Executive Director. A native of northern Ohio, Breitmann holds a BA in English and a Masters in Community Agency Counseling from Bowling Green State University. She and her husband Troy have lived in the Augusta area for 23 years. Breitmann brings 20 years of nonprofit leadership experience to the Executive Director position. Breitmann was the [...]

Golden Harvest Food Bank Brings On New Executive Director2020-01-16T20:57:00+00:00

A Special Message from New Executive Director Amy Breitmann

(l-r): Founding Executive Director Mike Firmin, new Executive Director Amy Breitmann and former Executive Director Travis McNeal share a smile in the Golden Harvest warehouse. Dear Friends, I am honored to introduce myself and share my excitement about serving this community as the new Executive Director of Golden Harvest Food Bank with you. In many ways, taking on this new role at Golden Harvest feels like coming home. After 23 years in the Augusta area, my husband and I and our two adult children are deeply connected to this beautiful region. It’s the place where I’ve built [...]

A Special Message from New Executive Director Amy Breitmann2020-01-16T20:53:24+00:00
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