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Candace Lynde returned as an at-large member of the board of directors of the Franklin Area Survival Center a couple of months ago.  She had been a board member a few years ago, but had had to leave due to family needs out of the area. However, Candace missed being on the board and asked if she could return.   Of course, we couldn't say no! She recently took the post of Secretary (giving Barbara

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David Turner joined the Franklin Area Survival Center team recently as assistant to the site supervisor. David is a Turners Falls resident and has blended in nicely with the center family.  Myryah Daehn has been hired as a part-time cashier.  She will be working on Monday and Tuesday and covering for vacations and sick days. She will also be working in the sorting room as needed.  Stop by and

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The Franklin Area Survival Center will be closed on Monday, January 2, 2012, in observance of the Federal Holiday celebrating New Years Day. The thrift store and food pantry will reopen on Tuesday, 10:00 a.m.. Happy New Year everyone!

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Our heartfelt thank go out to the boy scouts, cub scouts and youth groups who helped with the annual boy scout food drive in Greenfield.  What a wonderful job they did. They collected 3,405 lb of food! A tremendous amount of work was entailed in completing this drive and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts! A big thank you to Russ Kimball of Greenfield, the guiding force of the boy scout

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Our holiday schedule is as follows: Thanksgiving: Food pantry: closing Tuesday at 1:30 p.m., November 22 and reopening Monday, November 28th at 10 a.m. Thrift store: only closed Thanksgiving day, open rest of the week Christmas: Food pantry and thrift store will be closed, Monday, December 26th-reopening Tuesday, December 27th New Years: Food pantry and thrift store will be closed, Monday,

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The Franklin Area Survival Center will be closed to honor our veterans on Veteran's Day this Friday (November 11).  We will reopen on Saturday November 12 at 10:00 a.m. We encourage you to go out and spend some time enjoying the parades and events honoring those who serve our country. Because of our veterans we are able to enjoy the freedoms that we enjoy today. Take the time to thank a veteran

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 We have Thanksgiving decorations.  We have wonderful Christmas items. Anything that you can imagine that you would like in your home as the holiday season arrives, we have it!  Stop by and check out our store, it sure is looking like Christmas is on the way!

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The Franklin Area Survival Center (including the thrift store) will be closed this next weekend to allow for us to set up our Christmas area for the re-opening on Tuesday. Please plan accordingly.

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Clare Baker is the grandprize winner of the $500 jackpot! Clare received her prize at the Franklin Area Survival Center early Monday morning (Sept. 9).  She was thrilled, because "I have never won anything"! Well Clare, you sure start big! In the above picture, Faith Rockwood, President of the Board of Directors, hands Clare her big prize.

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We invite you to join us at the Franklin County Fair in Greenfield, MA.  We will be raffling off $500 donated to us for the raffle by a supporter of the Franklin Area Surival Center.  We will be in the Dole Building and we hope you will stop by, check out our scrapbooks as we are celebrating our 30th year serving the Franklin County area.  We will board members and volunteers manning the booth

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Madeline Murray, our trusted cashier has left the center. She has gotten a new job and has decided to try something new in her life. We will all miss her, but wish her well in her new endeavors! We hope she will stop by and visit us every now and then. Good luck Madeline!

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We have a beautiful dark wood hutch, end tables, coffee tables, collectibles, couches, chairs, bureaus, baby items, bed linens, curtains, wedding gowns, formal outfits, shoes, sandals, baskets, electronics, glassware, books, tapes, DVDs, Cassette tapes, CDs; clothing for children, teens, adults, plus size (both men and women), and babies, and so much more.  Please stop by our thrift store.  It is

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The Franklin Area Survival Center has a new Site Supervisor, Jamie Symmes. Jamie was hired a while back as assistant Site Supervisor, but when Ed Peramba left us suddenly Jamie applied for his job. Jamie took over the reins officially this last Monday. We hope you will stop in and shop and say hi.Les Chadwick who came back to assist while we looked for a new supervisor will remain on staff as a

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If you think you have what it takes to be our site supervirsor, I highly recommend that you stop into the center and pick up an application, complete it and return it as soon as possible.The following is the job description for the job:· Complete pick ups of donated foods from Food Bank, vendors and private donators in a timely and business-like manner· Complete pick up of donated items (other

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Ed Peramba came to work as assistant to our site supervisor, Del Parsons, in November 2009. A few months later Del retired and Ed moved up to site supervisor. Ed recently left us to try out some new adventures. We wish him and his wife, Pam, the best of luck in the future.

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On July 9th the Franklin Area Survival Center will be celebrating! We are in our 30th year and we are going to have some fun. We will be having an open house beginning at 11:00 a.m. State Senator Stan Rosenberg will be appearing at 1:00 p.m. The center will unveil a special honor thanking our volunteers of 5 years or more. WHAI Radio will be onsite with their remote talking with people and

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The Franklin Area Survival Center's board of directors is looking for a few good members. We meet about 7-8 times a year at most because of the winter weather and a couple of months off during the summer. Most meetings are held on Wednesday evenings. We do have a Christmas party and an annual picnic. We may also attend some other events as well, but these are infrequent. Of course, we

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Pat Karkut has resigned from the board of directors of the Franklin Area Survival Center. She is deeply involved in her community and is going to spend more time doing that and traveling with her family. She will stay on as a volunteer at the intake desk in our food pantry. We wish her luck in her endeavors and glad that she will be remaining as a volunteer!

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Pat Karkut has left the board of directors of the Franklin Area Survival Center. She has been a great member of the board for the past few years. She will remain as a volunteer at our intake desk in the food pantry. Pat is very active in her town and travels a lot with her husband. We wish her the best of luck in her personal life and are grateful she is remaining as a volunteer!

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This has been a rough month or so for the Franklin Area Survival Center for once again we have lost a member of our family. Richard Trenholm was a dedicated volunteer at the center, working at our food pantry intake desk. He so enjoyed helping people and was great with our clients. Richard dedicated much his life since returning home after WWII to charity organizations, and we had the

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Monday was the start of our 30th year serving the needy of Franklin County. We have big plans for an open house which is set for July 9th. Stan Rosenberg, our great state senator, will be attending. Stan has been a supporter of the Franklin Area Survival Center forever. We look forward to his visit. WHAI will be broadcasting live from the center from 11-2 that day. There is going to be hot dogs

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Mary Jane Bray Tirrell was a past member of the Franklin Area Survival Center's Board of Directors and a long time volunteer at the food pantry and intake desk. Mary spent many days talking with clients and other volunteers. She was well liked and respected. She only stopped volunteering after her health and hearing started to fail. At that time, she felt it was best to move on. However, she

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The Franklin Area Survival Center (both the food pantry and thrift store) will be closed on Monday, President's Day, February 21, 2011. We hope you enjoy the day with your family. We will reopen on Tuesday, February 22, at 10:00 a.m.

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The Franklin Area Survival Center remained open today even though we were hit by the first half of this massive snowstorm hitting much of the U.S. We stayed open to allow people with emergency circumstances to get food from the food pantry. However, we will be closed on Wednesday, February 2, as the second half and most powerful piece of this storm hits our area. We are hoping to be reopening

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The Board of Directors, Staff and Volunteers would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We look forward to serving you again in the new year!

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Just wanted you to know that the Franklin Area Survival Center will be closing early or closing on some days during the next two weeks.The food pantry will be open:December 20-24- 10:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. - normal hoursThe Thrift Store will be open:December 20-23- 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.mDecember 24 - 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.Both the pantry and thrift store will be closed Saturday, Christmas Day (

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We have been receiving a lot of donations the last few months, for which we are very grateful. However, we have decided that we need time to process them so our hallway does not get cluttered and the items are able to get out on the floor quicker. So we are only accepting donations between 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday. We are sorry if this is an inconvenience, but we are

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Christmas has arrived at the Franklin Area Survival Center. Stop in and save on your decoration, tree trimming and wrapping supplies!

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The Franklin Area Survival Center will be closed the entire three-day Columbus Day weekend (October 9, 10, 11). We will be making renovations and creating our "Christmas" area. The store will reopen on Tuesday the 12th at 10:00 a.m. We encourage you to come and see our holiday items for sale. There will be decorations, trees, ceramic items, kitchen delights, and more. We also will have

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Today was the 5th annual Fill the Belly Bus fundraiser held at the Greenfield Common. Community Action's Hunger Task Force, in which we are a member, did a wonderful job getting the word out and contacting businesses to collect food to benefit our food pantry, the Center for Self-Reliance (Community Action's food pantries in Greenfield, and the Franklin County Community Meals Program. Nearly

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We hope you will stop in and take advantage of purchasing some great fall and winter items. We have jackets, sleepers, pj's, sweaters, hats, and more! Don't miss out on the tremendous abundance of great used furniture as well. We have great affordable prices on entertainment centers, couches, chairs, dining room sets, hutches, and more! We have plenty of craft items, baby items, and books! Stop

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The wonderful people who attend the Wormtown Festival in Greenfield, MA twice a year continue to support the Franklin County Community Meals Program as well as the Franklin Area Survival Center. Over the Memorial Day weekend they came through once again with 700 lb of food for the Community Meals Program and 1200 lb for the Franklin Area Survival Center. I know I can speak for Amy Clarke,

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The Franklin Area Survival Center has been closed the past few days. The storm that came through Western Massachusetts and damaged a lot of homes in Franklin County was the cause of our closure. We have had no electrical power. Power was regained late this afternoon, so we will reopen the thrift store tomorrow. The food pantry will reopen on Tuesday.

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The Aubuchon Hardware store of Turners Falls, MA held their Annual Fundraiser to Benefit the Franklin Area Survival Center On April 30th & May 1st and it was a BIG SUCCESS!!! A couple hundred pounds of food were donated and nearly $400.00 was donated! Local Kids enjoyed the bouncy house, balloons, popcorn, and a coloring contest! The Montague K-9 Police officer was there with his beautiful German

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The Franklin Area Survival Center has been undergoing some much needed renovations to the center--some because of safety issues and others to give us more room for growth. After Christmas we emptied the Christmas room and moved all of our housewares in. All of our glasses, bakeware, silverware, lamps...are now in there. This past holiday weekend (President's Day) we moved our cashiers over in

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Irmarie Jones and Everett Hatch resigned from the Board of Directors of the Franklin Area Survival Center at the board's annual meeting in October. Everett will remain as a volunteer in the food pantry, along with his lovely wife Janice. Irmarie is cutting back on her volunteering to spend more time at home with her family. She remains devoted to the Survival Center and will continue to support

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The Board of Directors of the Franklin Area Survival Center is looking for a few good members. We have a couple of openings and we are looking for a people in the Franklin County area that are interested in our mission to feed the hungry in our area. The Center has been operating since 1981. As you know, we operate a food pantry. We finance it mainly through our thrift store. The board

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The Franklin Area Survival Center's thrift store will be closed this Saturday (September 5) through Labor Day (September 7), reopening on Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. We are closing so we can ready our new Christmas room as well as replace summer clothing with fall items. We hope you will stop in and check out the Christmas room (we have so much we have to start early!) and pick up some new clothes!

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The Hunger Task Force of Franklin County held their annual Fill the Belly Bus Food Drive this past Friday, August 14th. The Hunger Task Force is made up of members from the following agencies: The Salvation Army, Community Action, The Center for Self-Reliance (operates the food pantry in Greenfield), The Franklin County Community Meals Program and the Franklin Area Survival Center. This group

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The annual summer sale will begin on Monday, August 17th at the Franklin Area Survival Center's thrift store. All spring and summer clothing will be on sale for half price until Friday, September 4th. We will close on that day at 5:00 p.m. and reopen on Tuesday, September 8th with the opening of our Christmas room. We have been storing Christmas items since just after Christmas last year. We

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A private donator who has supported the Franklin Area Survival Center for several years has donated a brand new front loading washer and dryer for use in the sorting room. These are top-of--the-line LG steamers! They are extra large. The center receives donations of sheets, comforters and pillow cases, formals, wedding gowns, bathing suits, etc., that need a bit of washing for us to be able to

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The Franklin Area Survival Center welcomed a visit from two associates from the Amherst Survival Center, Kara and Sandhya, on Saturday, July 11th. Faith Rockwood, president of the board of directors escorted Kara and Sandhya through the building. Amherst Survival Center is in the midst of looking into better ways of operating their center and associates are traveling to similiar operations in

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The Franklin Area Survival Center will close at 1:30 p.m., on Thursday, June 18th to allow staff and volunteers to attend our annual appreciation/recognition picnic at Northfield Mountain's recreation center. Each year the board of directors hold a picnic to thank the employees and volunteers for their dedication. The Survival Center is grateful to all our volunteers who dedicate many hours a

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The Franklin Area Survival Center has been undergoing some minor construction. The center door has been widened to include a 2 foot additional add-on door. An overhang has also been added to allow for coverage while unloading or loading during inclement weather. We also added two large secured storage areas next to the building. This will allow us to store the overflow items for the store, or

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On May 15th (Fri), 16th (Sat) and 17th (Sun), the Turners Falls Aubuchon's once again held a benefit weekend in which part of their sales was donated to us. On the 15th and 16th, members of the board of directors and volunteers of the Franklin Area Survival Center cooked hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill for Aubuchon's customers. Aubuchon's had representatives of the companies who sell their

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The annual postal drive around the country happened on May 9th. The local postal workers worked hard to help the local food pantries and non-profits by picking up food at their stops. Once again, they brought in a lot of great non-perishables. The Franklin Area Survival Center received 2,622 pounds of food from the Greenfield Post Office. The Turners Falls/Montague Post Offices are still

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Until further notice the center will not be accepting winter clothing items. We have no more room to store them until the fall. So please, if you have winter items you want to donate, please hold them until September. Our Thrift Store is bursting at the seams with loads of clothes, furniture (we even have a wonderful electric organ!), toys and books! Please come in and help us thin down a bit!

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Dawn Lang of Greenfield was voted onto the Board of Directors of the Franklin Area Survival Center at their meeting on April 15th. Dawn is married to Ken Lang owner of Ken's Tax Prep. They have two daughters, Erika and Tara. Dawn works as a bus monitor for the Greenfield Public Schools and previously worked as a crossing guard in Greenfield. She operated her own daycare while her children were

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The Franklin Area Survival Center has a new Website located at http://www.franklinareasurvivalcenter.org/. Thanks to RileyInteractive ( if you would like to check their website out it is www.rileyinteractive.com) we are up and running. We are still getting things on the site but it is open and ready for viewing. Keep an eye out for more pictures and updated news of what is happening at the center

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Stephen Valeski, Manager of Abuchon Hardware in Turners Falls, selected the Franklin Area Survival Center as the recipient of the February 2009 Community Appreciation weekend. On March 28th, Stephen presented me with a check for $250! Thanks Stephen for thinking of us and thank you Aubuchons!

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We closed the center today to clean out the winter items and put in all new spring items. We have lots of brand new clothes with their tags! There are wonderful skirts, dresses, women's dress suits, women's formals (great for upcoming proms!). All of these clothes are being sold at low prices. There are suits for men, great dress slacks, shirts and polos. In the next couple of days we will be

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Barbara Alfange of Leverett who has volunteered for over 10 years was voted onto the board of directors. Barbara has worked in a couple of different capacities at the Center: first at the food pantry counter, then as an intake worker and this last year she has taken on sharing the oversight of the intake desk with Everett Hatch. Barbara brings to the board experience with administrative work

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The Turners Falls High School Alumni group, "Lending a Helping Hand" sponsored a food drive that benefited the Franklin Area Survival Center. Nancy Holmes is there leader. They placed collection boxes at the Turners Falls Water Department, Turners Falls Fire Station, Seth & Eva's at 115 Avenue A, the food pantry at our location, Scotty's Store at 106 High Street, and at the 2nd Street Baking Co

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We are currently working with RileyInteractive on setting up a brand new website. John Riley, the owner and creator of RileyInteractive has many years of experience in setting up, hosting and designing websites. I am sure he will get us up in running in the next couple of months. As soon as everything is ready I will place our location on this blog, so keep an eye on us. The board of directors

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We would like to thank everyone who has donated to the Franklin Area Survival Center in the past year for without you we could not continue to do what we do. We especially want to thank the many people who on their own decided to do food drives in their neighborhoods to benefit us. These spur of the moment food drives helped us at times when we were low on food and the numbers of people needed

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In the last couple of months we have lost some of our most dedicated volunteers.We first lost Valda Stowe who worked as our Friday cashier for over 20 years. She was a wonderful woman whom the clients absolutely adored. As a friend you could have no one better. No matter what the weather, Val could be depended on being there if we needed her. Her warm smile and sparkling eyes are gone from us,

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On November 15th the boy scouts in Greenfield, Turners Falls and Erving dropped off bags at residences in their towns. The group included the following scouts: Boy Scout troops 5, 7 and 10, Cub Scout pack 3, 52 and 367, Girl Scout troop 79. This year they were assisted by the Greenfield High School Student Council; Greenfield High School Key Club and YMCA Leader Club. On November 22nd they went

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Our food pantry has seen a steady increase as the economy falls deeper and deeper. As people are losing their jobs, parents are beginning to feel the pain of not having enough money to feed their children or pay their rent/mortgage. We have seen an increase in singles need our service as well. Times are tough and if you are in need of food and are from the Franklin County area, please come to

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Greenfield Savings Bank of Greenfield, MA, donated to the Franklin Area Survival Center two computers. We thank them for their generosity!The computers will be set up and used in the food pantry once past data is entered. Our main office has been on computer for quite a few years now, but it has been hard trying to get the food pantry up onto the network. Within the next few weeks I will work

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Great news! The Franklin Area Surival Center's thirft store will change its hours to permanent ones. We have in the past closed earlier during the winter months. However, since the thrift store's sales are vital to us to accomodate the increasing needs of the food pantry, we have decided to set permanent longer hours. As of September 2, 2008, the hours will be 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday

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We have had a few people dropping items off after hours. We appreciate your donations, but please do not leave them after hours. We have a problem with feral cats in the area. They spray the items and they are then useless to us and we have to pay to dispose of them. The higher costs of disposing of these items takes away from our food budget! Please, we have very needy people relying on us to

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The Franklin Area Survival Center has discontinued selling special items on Ebay. We are now selling them only in our thrift store located at 96 Fourth Street or via local auction houses/antique dealers. Please stop by and check out our wonderful store and help support our food pantry. Thank you!

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All of our items are donated to the Survival Center by great Franklin County residents and businesses because they know our thrift store supports our main mission, our food pantry.If you are looking for some great furniture at reasonable prices then come and check out the Franklin Area Survival Center's thrift store. We have bureaus, desks, end tables, chairs, recliners, bedroom sets, and much

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Households served 2009January = 395 includes 625 adults; 295 children; 920 individualsFebruary = 371 includes 569 adults; 271 children; 840 IndividualsMarch = 452 includes 699 adults; 366 children; 1065 IndividualsApril = 417 includes 641 adults; 355 children; 996 IndividualsMay = 387 households; 562 adults; 274 children; 836 individualsJune = 412 households; 640 adults; 333 children; 973

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The Survival Center can always use volunteers. The tasks given to the volunteers varies but often they assist with sorting clothing and putting new items out on the floor at the thrift store. If you are interested in volunteering for the Survival Center, please drop by the center during business hours and fill out a volunteer application.For more information on volunteer opportunities, call the

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The purpose of the center is to provide free food to needy individuals and families in the Franklin County Area. There is also a thrift shop where clothing, household items, furniture and other necessities are for sale at an extremely reasonable cost. The thrift shop is open to the general public and helps finance our food pantry. In an emergency, such as a fire or flood, the center will supply

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If you feel that you need the services provided by the Survival Center, you will need to come in to determine income eligibility. You will need a form of identification, proof of income (Disability, AFDC, etc.), proof of life expenses (rent, utilities, etc.). If you have any questions, please call the center and ask to speak to intake and they will explain the process to you. Please do not

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The Survival Center can always use donations of furniture, household items, and clothing for our thrift store. Please observe the following guidelines:We only accept donations during business hours. Please do not leave donations outside of the store during non-business hours. Please do not leave bags of clothing outside our doors--feral cats in the area cause us to lose the contents.We are

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The Survival Center Thrift Store is open year round:Monday-Saturday ------10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.The center is closed on Federal holidays.Thanksgiving: The thrift store will be open the Friday and Saturday following Thanksgiving day.Christmas: It depends on the day of the week that the holiday fall on. If it falls on a Friday we will be closed for the rest of the week. For other days of the week,

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