South Coast Today: St. Martin's food bank

With the cold weather approaching quickly, the church’s Food and Pet Pantry is gearing up for a busy season. It is open from 10 to 11 a.m. on the third Saturday of each month. Applicants should enter by the entrance in the County Street parking lot. The Rev. Scott Ciosek, also pastor of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Dartmouth, said that no one in need is turned away from the food pantry. “All they need is one form of ID,” he said.

Senior warden Libby Davenport began looking into the establishment of a food pantry on 2003 and in November it will have been in operation 15 years.“The parishioners bring in the pet food,” she said. “I order 1,000 pounds of food from the Boston Food Bank."

"I remember the first night of distribution, we had 11 people,” she said. “Now we average about 45 to 50 families per month.”

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