THE SJOS FOOD STORE
The non-denominational group, “Food For Friends,” has been a great supporter for many years. However, with COVID, their pre-Christmas operation of collecting food from supermarkets in Toorak was restricted and the concept suspended for the year. However, generous people still donated funds to support the group’s mission and in mid-January 2021, “Food For Friends” delivered a car load of food stuffs, especially purchased for the SJOS Food Store. The expensive items, including coffee, honey, spreads, jams and hygiene items, are often the most popular, and these items need to be continually purchased to stock the store. To have “Food For Friends” fund a big “shop”, including the expensive items, for the Food Store, was creating appreciated.
The SJOS Food Store was also the beneficiary of food collected at Scala Apartments in St Kilda Road, thanks to Colin George, as well as some wonderful families at St Josephs College Ferntree Gully. Ann Maree Pagon, the school’s Director of Religious Education, and a friend of SJOS, instigated the promotion of SJOS to the school and we thank the wonderful families of Ferntree Gully for their support of our mission.
THANK YOU TO THE SJOS TEAM
THE SJOS GARDEN CLUB
The SJOS Garden Club has continued to harvest produce from the garden over the summer. The potato harvest was a slight disappointment, but lots of packets of silverbeet, spring onions, chives, tomatoes, basil, zucchini and other herbs have been delivered to the Food Store every week, and received most enthusiastically by our visitors. Recently, passionfruit and some fruit trees have been planted, as well as parsley and capsicum. The team continues their work with the Almost French Kindergarten to make sure the garden beds in the playground area are safe and well placed for the children to enjoy while they play.
THANK YOU TO THE SJOS TEAM
The team cooked sausages and onions on 2 Sundays, 31 January 2021 and 7 February 2021, resulting in a profit of nearly $1,900.00 over the 2 days. Nearly 900 sausages, 30 kg of frozen onions and lots of drinks were consumed.