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Updated: 10:17 PM Feb 22, 2012
Dothan Rescue Mission Needs Your Help
The Dothan Rescue Mission feeds the homeless residing at their facility three times a day.
There are about eighty five people living there now, which equals out to around two-hundred and fifty-five meals a day.
Posted: 9:41 PM Feb 22, 2012Reporter: Deanna Bettineschi Email Address: deanna@wtvy.com |
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Providing so many meals can be difficult, especially when you're working with limited ingredients.
"I started off just as a volunteer but over time they hired me on as a full time cook." Rescue mission cook Sam Hallmark said.
Sam hallmark has been the full time cook at the rescue mission for nearly two months.
"I get up at four thirty in the morning and start my day by getting breakfast ready, and after breakfast is over I clean up." Hallmark said.
Mission residents say hallmark's spaghetti is the best meal there, but sometimes hallmark doesn't have the ingredients he needs to make it.
"Sometimes I struggle with what kind of meal to give because I run short some or I have a lot of something else." Hallmark said.
The mission houses about eighty-five people right now, but they expect more people at the end of the week with the potential for severe weather.
"When it gets cold outside and it’s rainy and that kind of thing, a lot more of the clients come in and the need for the supplies and food would go up." Dothan Rescue Missions marketing director Chris Grandstaff said.
"We could always use more donations of mixed vegetables, carrots and stuff. I have a lot of green beans and corn I can make soups, but anything would be great. “Hallmark said.
Employees say they need supplies like garbage bags, paper towels, and toilet paper, as well as certain food.
"So that can be something small as pop tarts, grits, cereals that kind of thing, milk, eggs, any kind of breakfast food you can think of. You could also turn around and use the milk for other areas for cooking and baking later on in the day. “Grandstaff said.
Officials say anyone can donate food and supplies straight to the administration building in downtown Dothan
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The mission will also pick up the supplies.
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