1514 Federal Street Camden, NJ 08105 856-964-6771 (office) 856-964-6772 (fax) www.cathedralkitchen.org SEPTEMBER 2014

The Heart of CK: Community

Cathedral Kitchen News

Did you know?

Over the past 38 years: thousands of you have helped fund millions of nutritious meals for those in need.

For the past six years, you have helped graduate 181 Culinary Arts Training Students who have gained the skills to support themselves and their families.

For the past four years, you have helped hundreds of Camden residents obtain dental care and dentures critical to overall health.

And now, with the opening of our new facility at the end of this year, you will support: employment opportunities in our income-generating contract meal program, 12 students who will enter the first Baking Arts Training program next spring, and the CK Café which will be open to the public.

You make it happen!

This issue of CK News is dedicated to “YOU”, the community that allows CK to do such important work by donating your time, talent and treasure. A shining example is the Pease family who, along with a network of family and friends, have gathered twice monthly to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for CK for the past five years. The project began in 2009 when Luke Pease, then in eighth grade, chose to devote his church community service commitment to CK. What was intended as a brief project became a labor of love. “We extended the project because it means so much,” said Lee Pease, Luke’s dad. Now 30,000 sandwiches and almost $6,000 later, Luke Pease has graduated from Haddonfield Memorial High School and his family is passing the torch along. The Pelose family, also of Haddonfield, will take on the responsibility of organizing bi-monthly meetings and providing the supplies – 28 loaves of bread, 15 pounds of peanut butter and 15 pounds of jelly - each time. “This has truly turned into a neighborhood event,” said Lee Pease. “The sandwiches made by volunteers provide a take away meal for our dinner guests to carry them to the next day or to help nourish someone at home,” says Karen Talarico, Executive Director. “These volunteers will never know how grateful the recipients are to receive these sandwiches. Through their caring they have been able to touch so many lives.” Pease said his family will continue to volunteer in order to help the community. “This is another extension of trying to give back to Camden; our neighbors down the road.” Cathedral Kitchen and their thousands of dinner guests are grateful for all of the donations and support from the volunteers who help to make this project possible.

The original five boys who started the sandwich project are in the back, along with Lee Pease, the rest of the former sandwich makers, and the new crew who will carry on the project.

Save the Date!

Camden Rotary Presents:

Designer Bag Bingo

A Portion of the proceeds will benefit

Cathedral Kitchen. Wednesday, October 22

For information contact: Mary Lynne Reynolds at (856) 522-0639, ext. 201

Or visit “Rotary Club of Camden, New Jersey” on facebook

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Local nonprofits filmed their vision of “happiness” in Camden under the direction of three-time Emmy nominated producer and volunteer Steve Acito. Called “The Goodness Project”, its aim is to get the word out about the “goodness” that non-profits are doing in this often maligned city. Inspired by the song "Happy", representatives from various organizations expressed the happiness they feel while doing good work in Camden. Shown here during filming are CK chefs Jonathan Jernigan and Lebaron Harvey, along with culinary student Verna Farrish. The link to the video can be found on our homepage at www.cathedralkitchen.org.

Dante Foggy, a senior at Burlington County Institute of Technology, asked CK’s Chef Jonathan if he could volunteer to work in the kitchen this summer to practice his culinary skills and give back to the community. This is no ordinary high school senior. He has competed in and won state and national teen cooking competitions and is considered to be a “top teen chef”. He has already interned at several high end restaurants in New York. He developed his love of cooking at BCIT and says, “anyone can cook, but you have to be a certain kind of person to be a chef!” CK was happy to mentor this exceptional volunteer and we know he will reach his next goal and attend Johnson & Wales University in 2015.

The Many Faces of Volunteers

More than 20 local chefs volunteer their time to teach workshops in one of their specialties during our Culinary Arts Training program. Chef Barbie Marshall (above), Chef Partner of SOOP Catering in Philadelphia and known for her Hell’s Kitchen appearance, demonstrated Chicken Fricassee. Chef Tom Griffiths (center), Master Chef from Campbell Soup Company teaches garde manger. Chef Joseph Baldino (below) taught students the art of fresh pasta making and has been a regular volunteer since opening Zeppoli in Collingswood.

Bea Gosik was hired in February to be the Cathedral Kitchen’s first Chief Operating Officer. Her immediate role is to help manage the implementation of programs in the new CK

facility next door. These will include an expanded contract meal program, a new baking arts training program and the CK Café, which is scheduled to open to the public next spring. She is responsible on an ongoing basis for operations in finance, human resources/payroll, IT, facilities and office administration. Bea was in the food service business for 27 years before joining CK. Her experience in this industry has been instrumental in the development of systems to run the contract meal program that will become an important income stream to support CK’s human services programs.

Welcome Bea!

Velton Adams graduated from the CAT program in 2010 and is now an Assistant Manager at Restaurant Depot; he also works for CK on weekends delivering contract meals. He and his wife, Vona, recently bought their first home!

Three CK staff members had babies within two weeks of each other this summer! Pictured: Janira Gonzales with baby Jacob, LeBaron Harvey with baby Sharye, and Myriam Santiago with baby Fabian and big brother Frankie.

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“A quick story for you of one of my visits for the internship. Hurricane Irene was approaching and just before service it started pouring. I thought no one is going to come out in this weather. Just before we circled up to pray a car pulls up to the volunteer entrance and boxes begin to come into the door. A man was there to make a donation, which is not all that unusual. But this was a donation of candles, hundreds of them...staff asked him for his name, but he declined just telling them that he wanted people to be able to have light since the power would most likely be going out...and drove away. The meal service started and 317 meals went out. It was on the way home that I got to reflect on this event...it had to be Christ bringing "light" to so many that day and I felt privileged just to have been there in His presence. You guys have such a wonderful job and outreach ministry for such a troubled area...Christ is surely there, in the customers, staff and in the workers...All of the staff and volunteers are fantastic! Thanks again for the letter and for the opportunity to serve.” Frank

Employees from Beneficial Bank (left) volunteer regularly at the meal service and teach a segment of financial literacy for the CK culinary arts program twice a year. Several groups from Whole Foods Market (above) in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York stores have volunteered to cook CK’s meal for 300+ dinner guests.

“Just wanted to share something with you that happened today. We had a little boy who came in with his sisters and dad. The father asked if I had a donut for the little guy because it was his birthday. The kitchen was very busy

with catering and I asked Mark if we had a piece of cake for the little guy. I hesitated to ask because they were so busy. Not only did Mark get me a piece of cake, he found a whole cake and lit 6 birthday candles. The whole place sang happy birthday and I will never forget the look and smile on his face. Mark went the extra mile and made that little boy happy. Please let Mark know we think he is pretty special.” Marylou

United Way

giving is a

great way to

support

Cathedral Kitchen

You can donate to the Cathedral

Kitchen through a payroll deduction.

Here’s how:

United Way of Greater PA &

Southern New Jersey donor option

#18099

NJ State Employee Charitable

Campaign, donor option # 18099

Other County Campaigns & Public

Employee Campaigns—just indicate

“Cathedral Kitchen” on your donor

form.

Volunteer Notes. . . Sometimes we receive notes from our volunteers that warm our hearts and remind us why we do this work. Here are two stories shared by volunteers that, by happenstance, both involve candles that brought “light” to the day.

Corporate Volunteers Make A Difference!

Each year hundreds of Campbell Soup Company employees volunteer by serving dinner, making sandwiches for a take home meal for our guests, speaking to our culinary students and more. The company’s “Dollars For Doers” program promotes volunteerism and provides cash donation matches for hours donated by their employees.

CK’s Mission Statement

The mission of Cathedral Kitchen is to provide essential life services

that support the health and well-being of those in our

community and, in doing so, to affirm each person’s humanity and dignity while guiding them

towards self sufficiency.

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Honorary Event Chair: Vai Sikahema, NBC 10 Anchor & Sports Director Auctioneer: Terry Ruggles

Friday, November 7, 2014

7:00 10:00 PM Tickets: $70

Collingswood Ballroom 315 White Horse Pike,

Collingswood, NJ

Presenting Sponsor:

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Cathedral Kitchen is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit.

Harvest for Hunger

Tasting &

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Karen Talarico, Executive Director

Message from the Executive Director

Cathedral Kitchen Board of Directors

Officers: Donna Siegel Moffa

President Cathy Gavin Gary Seigle Steve Talbot

Vice Presidents Robert Marrone

Treasurer Sheila McCray

Secretary

Directors: William Carrozza

Carla Ferrara Glenn Giveans

Kathleen Goodman Lisa Only

Richard Pacheco Terry Ruggles Wanda Smith

Elaine Moore Wright

Dear Friends,

Lots has happened over

the past year! We began

construction on our new

facility next door which

will bring many new opportunities for CK

and for residents and visitors to Camden.

Our new commercial kitchen will allow

us to expand our contract meal initiative,

which will enable us to have a secure

income stream to support our human

services programs. This income will be

crucial to allowing us to continue our core

mission, because it will replace funding

that has been lost as a result of budget cuts

at the federal and state level. Even more

exciting, we will be able to hire our

graduates to work in the new program, and

put them to work turning out meals seven

days a week.

Next year we will launch an expan-

sion of our culinary training with a Bak-

ing Arts Program. This program will

offer specialized training in a field we

have found to be a good job market for

our students.

In the spring the long-awaited open-

ing of the CK Café will provide a nice

lunch spot for our neighbors, as well as

serve as a front-of-the-house training lab

for our students. Chef Jonathan cannot

wait to finalize a menu rich with his

good “comfort food” themed selections

and salads with fresh ingredients from

our own rooftop garden.

We have raised $1.3 million of the

$2.3 million rehab budget and are on our

way to CK’s next chapter!