Our goal is to reach out to those in need by offering support through phone calls, notes, visits, and prayer and to provide services needed such as transportation, shopping etc.
We try to make contact with all congregants with phone calls to those we do not see and to all adults on their birthdays Reaching our goal depends on communication of needs and the availability of volunteers to fulfill those needs.
On going projects of the caring committee are the collection of food for Lincoln Action Program and the collection of "glorious junk" for Saratoga School.
For at least the past 5 years South Street Temple has been collecting "Glorious Junk" for the Saratoga School. What is "Glorious Junk"? It is anything that you can imagine could be used in either a class project or art project; examples are ribbon, scrap paper, keys, plastic lids, stamps, egg cartons, toilet paper/wrapping paper rolls, books, games, puzzles, and Campbell's soup labels for education.
Who receives the "goodies"? By the luck of the draw, Cheri Parent's 1st grade is the prime recipient. What they can not use is then offered to the art department and the rest of the school. What they can not use is given to Kindercare. What else is needed? .... volunteers to work one on one with the children; someone to go in to the class room to do a brief presentation of each of the Jewish Holidays (Cheri does read a story about each holiday) and people have come in sporadically to talk about, and bring the foods and religious objects of the holidays, and supplies for their pet rabbit.
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Saratoga Elementary School realizes a few hundred dollars every year from those "boxtops for education" coupons found on General Mills cereals and elsewhere. Drop them off at the school or contact Stephanie Dohner if you have any questions. Thank you on behalf of the students and teachers at Saratoga School.
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