St. Joseph's Food Bank
Food Bank: 295 First Avenue, Pembroke ON K8A 5A8. Mailing Address: PO Box 753 K8A 6X9 K8A 6X9 Pembroke, ON, Canada

To Clients of St. Joseph's Food Bank, Pembroke: Registration for Christmas Hampers will be October 5 to November 23, 2020. Please bring ID for each family member in your household. Pick up for the hampers will be December 16. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, the Traditional Christmas Hampers will be different this year.... St. Joseph's Food Bank, Pembroke will be closed for 2 weeks---December 15, 2020 to January 3, 2021. We will reopen Monday, January 4, 2021 from 9:30 to 12:30. Our wish for all is a safe and happy holiday.

St. Joseph's Food Bank will not be doing the Traditional Fall Food Drive this year starting in October, 2020, because of Covid-19 restrictions and Public Health Guidelines. However, contributions from churches, organization and individuals will be accepted and greatly appreciated.

The 11 Food Banks in Renfrew County have set up a website to help those in need.. The website lists all the County's Food Banks, where to find them, their hours of operation, how to donate to them, a news section and contacts for a variety of social services. The new website--www.RenfrewCountyFoodBanks,ca--was set up and designed by volunteers from the Stone Fence Theatre. It was built by Evan Burgess, of Blue North Studios, artwork done by Beverly Lewis of Eganville and... site management and text by Ish Theilheimer. Cheryl Paquette, a Petawawa Pantry volunteer, is assisting to coordinate the County"s Food Bank network and said "our volunteers work very hard to provide an essential service, but communication and outreach are not always our first priorities, so it is great that these talented locals have stepped forward to help us". She says some people who need food simply don:t know the help is available,and others may feel uncomfortable asking for help. The local Food Banks are run by persons who care, who understand the importance of confidentiality and are willing to help others during during stressful situations. If you can, donate or volunteer to your local Food Bank. The Renfrew County Food Banks encourage those in need to please access our services for support for you and your family. See more

MY FM Fundraiser on the weekend was a great success for our many county Foodbanks and must be commended for their efforts. Thank you so much from the clients and volunteers of St. Joseph’s Food Bank for the generous monetary donation to enhance our services.

Thank you so much Cheryl, from Kenny's Store and Barbara, from Sew Valley, Westmeath

Donation of $3000 presented to John Kilborn and volunteers from Cheryl Kenny, from Kenny's Store and Barbara Terthof, at Sew Valley, Westmeath, through the sale of homemade masks. Very grateful for your generosity and kindness to the St. Joseph's Food Bank.

Amazing donation from Feed Ontario.

The Pembroke Petawawa Community Foundation recently donated $5000 each to the St. Joseph’s Food Bank, Petawawa Pantry, The Grind and St. Vincent de Paul Soup Kitchen. Thank you so much for your support and recognizing food security as a priority.

Congratulations Benjamin. Val Barber accepting the donation.

Five year old, Benjamin Robinson, created a Food Drive and along with his family and friends was able to collect and donate all of this to food to the St. Joseph’s Food Bank today. How proud we are of you, your generosity and spirit. Thank you so much for caring about those in our community in need. Congratulations young man! A donation graciously received.

Thank you so much to the Pembroke Civitan Club for their generous donation of gift cards to be used to purchase much needed food for our most vulnerable. we are very grateful for your thoughtfulness and all you do to give back.

Thank you to Feed Ontario for 1020 boxes of food worth $30 each to distribute to single clients. Each Food Bank in area to receive donations from them. Much appreciated. Thank you to our helpers also.

To those who wish to donate to the St. Joseph's Food Bank, Pembroke, we thank you for your generous support of assisting clients in our community. Food donations, gifts-in-kind, cash or cheques can be dropped off at the Holy Name Annex, 295 First Avenue, Pembroke on Mondays between 9:30-12:30 hours.(Tuesday if a holiday) Phone number is: 613 732 3807 to leave a message Our mailing address is: St. Joseph's Food Bank, P.O.Box 753, Pembroke, ON K8A6X9 On-line donations ca...n be accessed through https://www.canadahelps.org//st-josephs-food-bank-pembro/ St. Joseph's Food Bank volunteers and clients are very grateful for your continued support during these difficult times.

To Clients of the St. Joseph's Food Bank, Pembroke:: New protocols/procedures have been implemented because of the Covid-19 coronavirus. Mondays open 9:30-12:30 with restricted access and in accordance with the Public Health guidelines. Groceries are being prepacked each Monday morning by volunteers to be distributed down to the main hall. Each client will register at. the main entrance and provide name, number in family and number of children. Clients are asked to come t...o the door individually for groceries and maintain social distancing. Volunteers and clients are encouraged to follow Public Health guidelines (hand sanitizing, hand washing, personal space distancing and staying home if unwell). If you are unable to come to the Food Bank, please send a signed note and ID with person picking up the order on your behalf. Plastic bags and boxes will be used for now but you may wish to secure your order in your own clean reusable bag for carrying purposes. We ask that clients try to come only once per month for now. Our phone number for messages is: 613 732 3807. Stay safe! See more

As of March, 2020, St. Joseph"s Food Bank, Pembroke, has an updated website. Very grateful Kudos must be given to Chance Turcotte--Turcotte Media--for his technical support in developing what we think is a great new modern site providing most of the information needed to our appreciative clients and our amazing donors who make it possible for the Food Bank to assist those in need in our community. Thank you so much Chance for your assistance and many hours of work on behalf of the St. Joseph's Food Bank.

A special Thank You to the Pembroke Civitan Club for the generous donation of Christmas cakes and gift cards for the Christmas Hampers in December 2019.

A very grateful thank you to the Upper Ottawa Valley OPP Auxiliary Unit for hosting "Stuff a Cruiser" event November 30. 2019. The community response exceeded our expectations . The St. Joseph's Food Bank volunteers and clients are most appreciative of the food and monetary donations to help those in need in our community. St. Joseph's Food Bank, Pembroke is a non-denominational, non-political and non-profit registered charity which relies on our generous community for support. Thank You so much.

The Upper Ottawa Valley OPP will be collecting food and toys at Walmart, Giant Tiger, Metro and Independent Grocers between 10am and 3pm tomorrow (Saturday).