Two of the participants in the beach cleanup in Boca Raton show a piece of their collection. The day was organized by the B’nai Torah Congregation and Gumbo Limbo Nature Center ahead of Rosh Hashanah. Photo provided
Each year, some faithful Jewish vo
CROS Ministries, clergy and nonprofits from Delray Beach gathered to honor St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church’s Care Ministry, which closed its doors after 16 years. It served homeless people and others in need by providing rent and utility assistanc
Volunteers crowd the finish line at CROS Ministries’ 2019 Hustle to End Hunger 5K in John Prince Park. This year’s race, Oct. 2, has live and virtual options. Photo provided
By Janis Fontaine
CROS Ministries’ annual Hustle to End Hunger 5K on Oct. 2
Harry Adwar volunteers at the Caring Kitchen, a hot-meal program in Delray Beach.
He does cooking, cleaning and raises money for the organization.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Harry Adwar knows what it’s like to go to bed hungry.
ABOVE: Volunteers glean the fields of ‘imperfect’ produce left behind by pickers. Thirty percent to 40 percent of produce used to be left in the fields to rot.
LEFT: Tom Pemberton picks up donated food for CROS Ministries. Photos provided
By Jani
By Mary Jane Fine
These are the Mother Hubbard days. In homes all-too-familiar with hunger and homes new to that terror, cupboards are bare. The use of food stamps has quadrupled in Florida over the past four lean years, according to published reports
By Mary Jane Fine
Doris Mingione is in departure mode. She’s a widow, moving to Colorado to be near her son, so today is her all-but-final day to deliver hot meals to some of West Delray’s homebound elderly and disabled. The typed route — names, add
Cici Garcia of Boca Helping Hands leaves food
with a client of the agency. Photo by Jerry Lower
Stories by Mary Jane Fine
C.R.O.S. MINISTRIES
Doris Mingione is in departure mode. She’s a widow, moving to Colorado to be near her son, so today
