BENTON â With a week before Christmas, Marcellaâs Kitchen served up more than hot lunches. The nonprofit also gave away hundreds of bags of groceries, fruits and gifts with help from the community.
From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, volunteers at Marcellaâs Kitchen, located at 868 Guy Mathis Drive in Benton, handed out 487 meals, 487 bags of fruit, plus well over 500 bags of groceries to families who drove through. In addition, they received various gifts and stocking stuffers, such as lip balm, scarves and stuffed animals.
âEvery time thereâs somebody that comes through this kitchen, no matter how they come through, we are blessed,â said Marcella Perkins, founder of Marcellaâs Kitchen.
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Library pares director search to 4
Final interviews will take place next week
ROSA SALTER RODRIGUEZ | The Journal Gazette
Allen County Public Library has narrowed its search for a new executive director to four candidates, all from out of state.
The four are Susan Baier, director of McCracken County Public Library in Paducah, Kentucky; Ann Hammond, executive director of Sonoma County Public Library in California; Bob Pasicznyuk, executive director of Douglas County libraries in the Denver metropolitan area; and Kristen Shelley, director of East Lansing Public Library in Michigan.
The candidates are scheduled to meet Wednesday with library managers and department heads. Next week, the library s Board of Trustees will conduct final interviews with each of the four applicants and decide what to do next.
The Paducah City Commission approved a 20-year forgivable loan up to $900,000 to Sprocket Inc. on Tuesday, seeing the move as an important investment in economic development.
The funds will be used to help build out more than 8,000 square feet at the Coke Plant in Midtown, where Sprocket, a nonprofit, currently operates in a smaller space.
An ordinance transferring the $900,000 from the cityâs debt service undesignated fund balance to the general fund was approved by a vote of 4-1, with Mayor Brandi Harless and commissioners Sandra Wilson, Brenda McElroy and Gerald Watkins in favor and member Richard Abraham voting no.
A Paducah nonprofit is making a list and checking it twice as it prepares to give free meals to over 1,000 people this Christmas Eve.
Project Pomona, a local organization dedicated to providing food for those who need it, has put together Seasonâs Eatings with a group of partner businesses and nonprofits to safely distribute these meals to four different sites at 11 a.m. on Dec. 24.
âYou know ⦠itâs been a bad year,â Project Pomona founder Bryant Hileman said. âWe havenât been able to do what we always did before â our free weekly meals at the library â but with Christmas coming up and the second round of restaurant and bar closures, even more people are faced with food insecurity than last year (and ever before).
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