THE LITTLE RED CUPBOARD
During the late fall of 2019 Karen Swartout’s daughter Terry was shopping in Lewes, Delaware and probably visiting some unusual shops on
first street and after shopping past by the burial grounds of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church when she noticed a rather large red cabinet with foods on the shelves. When she got home, she told her mother of her find and in the ensuing days talked to Carol Roy then chairman of the outreach committee and they talked to Father Larry who once served St. Peter’s. He made arrangements for them to; meet with the director of the cabinet on First Street and they took Gene Q with them to get building measurements.
The Little Cabinet was the number IV topic of the 2019 Annual Meeting held in January of 2020. There is little detail of when the present Little Red Cupboard was approved by the Vestry. On March 1, 2020 Bishop Brown blessed the Little Red Cupboard. Gene Q, Father Larry Hofer, and Bishop Brown Later in March Gene Q., the builder of the Little Red Cupboard, placed it along the side walk leading to the church house which is on Academy Street.
Carol Roy was the first chairman for the cabinet. In her 2020 annual report she said that our parish continues to serve our neighbors and our
homeless brothers and sisters faithfully. The parish has consistently supported the cupboard with food, books, winter hats, scarves and mittens, coloring books, crayons, tooth paste and brushes, bottled water, puzzles, games and other items too numerous to mention. Money was also donated for the purchase of needed items. This has been a wonderful contribution to our community.
Judy Dean in the picture is the current chairman of the Little Red Cupboard and is doing a wonderful job. She studies carefully what the likes and dislikes are in the community and is happy to get nutritional selections that the community will accept. Each Sunday she fills containers for each day of the week and members of the parish come in on given days and fill the cupboard. She prefers to have containers that are easy to open like the soups in little carton cups and cans that have the pop top. These are quite popular. As she is getting low in the pantry on given items she will announce in church the need for help of the item or items and who is having sales on these items.