For our upcoming Thanksgiving Holiday Food Project, we’re returning to our traditional process of using the Parish hall for sorting (November 19th at 7:00pm) and distributing (November 20th at 9:00am) the groceries. All of our volunteers must have completed either the Virtus or the Worthy of the Call training. If you haven’t already submitted your name to Bob at crhoopert@zoominternet.net, please do it now. If Barbara Sadler isn’t able to verify that you’ve been trained, you will not be included in our list of volunteers and you will not be able to help sort or distribute the groceries. St. Mary’s will continue to provide vouchers to each of families that are assigned to us by Mason-Dixon Community Services. The vouchers are funded by the special collections that St. Mary’s takes up for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter. The vouchers will be redeemable at the local Saubel’s store in Whiteford. We will be collecting groceries for Thanksgiving before each Mass on the weekend of November 13th and 14th. As we did last year under COVID, we are not going to distribute grocery bags with the colorful tags with the needed grocery items. We’re going to follow the process that worked successfully for us last year. Please purchase the grocery items that are listed based on the 1st initial of your last name: Initials A through F - STUFFING MIXES / CANNED FRUIT / HOT CEREAL / FRUIT JUICE / TOILET PAPER / LAUNDRY DETERGENT Initials G through L - MUFFIN MIXES / INSTANT POTATOES / CANNED YAMS / FRUIT JUICE / TOILET PAPER / TOOTHPASTE Initials M through S - GRAVY MIXES / BROWNIE MIXES / INSTANT POTATOES / CRANBERRY SAUCE / PAPER TOWELS / LAUNDRY DETERGENT Initials T through Z - CANNED SOUP / CANNED VEGETABLES / COLD CEREAL / STUFFING MIXES / DISH SOAP / TOOTHPASTE Please do not donate anything that isn’t listed above. And please do not donate any food items that are past their expiration dates. We hope to see you before each of the Masses on the 13th and 14th. Thank you so much for helping to feed some of our local families who are in need.