TORRINGTON — The Community Kitchen of Torrington doesn’t skip a beat. As she nears her 20th year as director of the soup kitchen, Lisa Hageman said the past two years have been the toughest ones by far due to the pandemic. “I don’t think anyone realized what we did, from March 2020 until just a few months […]
THOMASTON — In response to the ongoing needs of service organizations that help needy families aind individuals, Thomaston Savings Bank has launched the Community Kitchen Project. According to the bank, the Community Kitchen Project pairs a selection of the bank’s restaurant customers with area crisis intervention and food security organizations in their community. The bank
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TORRINGTON — Jacque Williams, a city resident who is a recording artist, DJ and WZBG radio personality, is looking to raise spirits — and help those in need — through a new EP to be released Friday. Every time someone downloads the EP, titled “2020,” the purchase price will be donated to Friendly Hands Food Bank, FISH and
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TORRINGTON — The holidays and their traditions are a little different for everyone this year, and soup kitchens, food pantries and shelters, where the coronavirus is a big concern, are facing many challenges. But those who run these organizations are still providing meals and relying on the generosity of their communities to keep the spirit
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As appeared in the Republican-American Community Kitchen of Torrington received $9,500 from the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal through its Vicariate Outreach Program. The funding will help the kitchen continue its mission to serve a nutritious meal daily to food insecure people of northwestern Connecticut. “Due to the pandemic, the Community Kitchen of Torrington has been unable
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BY BRUNO MATARAZZO JR. REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN March 28, 2020. read full article HERE (Login required) TORRINGTON — The line forms slowly outside the basement window of Trinity Episcopal Church, where Community Soup Kitchen offers a hot lunch and welcome respite from a crisis — whether that be caused by the COVID-19 pandemic or not. One by
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Printed from Chanel 3 EyeWitness News – Read Original Article HERE Caitlin Francis, Rob Polansky TORRINGTON, CT (WFSB) – Brutally cold temperatures outside sent some people in Torrington looking or a place to warm up. The Torrington Community Soup Kitchen provided that and more for those who needed it most. About 60 people were there for breakfast on
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Lisa Hageman, director of the Community Soup Kitchen at Trinity Church in Torrington, is The Register Citizen’s Person of the Year for 2018. The following was originally printed in the Register Citizen TORRINGTON — For Lisa Hageman, charity and caring for others in time of need came naturally. “I grew up in Goshen, and when
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