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Warren Profiles

 

'there are so many hungry people' in our community'

Neighborhood Food Pantry Seeks to Feed Those Who Fall Through the Cracks

It was a fall day in 2009 when a man came walking through the front door of the Community Family Outreach Complex in Warren.

He walked up to Alicia Williamson and started to explain why he had come that day. It was a long story, he said. He had just suffered the loss of his wife and he was trying to raise his minor children while dealing with his own grief.  He was making it until a week ago when he lost his job. He told Williamson that he had nothing to feed his children and that he had to wait at least a week before he would be able to receive unemployment compensation. 

This is just one of many stories that Community Family Outreach Complex workers hear on a regular basis.  The man, unfortunately, is one of hundreds in Trumbull County who are going hungry and who fall through the cracks of various social service agencies. The Neighborhood Food Pantry, launched in January 2009, is providing three days worth of emergency food assistance to 35 area families who are not already being served by another social service agency.

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Warren Sports

Neighborhood SUCCESS Profile

Passion is key to sports alliance success

Virginia Holmes, Director of the Warren Youth Development and Sports Alliance, believes in teamwork.

It is with that attitude and her belief in the benefits of recreational programming that she developed the alliance. “It was just my own idea,” Holmes said adding that all of the youth leagues and sport organizations should be working together.

Since the city of Warren does not have a parks and recreational department, the task of providing athletic and social outlets for the city’s youth fell on its residents. Each of the different organizations were pulling for the same kids and vying for the same funding, Holmes said.

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