(June 23- August 8)

During the summer of 2008, Good Works will launch our first-ever daily meal for the hungry of Athens County called SUMMER LUNCH.

SUMMER LUNCH will be offered between 11:30 am and 1:00 pm Monday – Friday with lunch being served at 12:00 noon. It will take place at The Plains United Methodist Church located on the corner of Johnson Road and Rt 682 in The Plains, Ohio. For more information, contact us at 740.594.3339

The Good Works’ Summer Lunch program was developed in response to what some are now calling a “perfect storm.” The skyrocketing price of food, combined with the dramatic increase in fuel costs and adding to this the on-going problem that children whose families struggle with poverty during the school year get a subsided lunch at school but receive no such support in the summer. At Good Works, we continue to serve many citizens who are homeless, on a fixed low-income, who frequently seek assistance through food pantries and who receive food stamps. A recent report in the Sunday, May 18 Athens Messenger indicated the number of people participating in the food stamp program in the US grew 482,000 between October 2007 and February 2008. During the same period of time the previous year, there was drop in the number of participants by 135,000. In Ohio and in rural Appalachia, the number of people signing up for food stamps in the first few months of 2008 has increased. Through the Summer Lunch program, our goal is to mobilize volunteers to meet the immediate food needs of adults and children this summer by providing a first-ever every day public meal to the hungry.

(June 23- August 8)

 From 9:00 am – 11:30 am each day, Good Works in partnership with The Plains UM Church will offer a Summer Kid's Discovery Club for children K-7th grade. For more information, contact Cory Blackwell or Amanda Porter at 740.594.3339.

 SUMMER KID'S DISCOVERY CLUB builds on the long tradition of Good Works’ outreach to children during the summer. Since the year 2000, Good Works has been offering a summer program for children.

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