The Community Caring Center and the Secret Garden, a culinary business development and job training center, hosted its second hospitality and culinary job fair in August to promote local jobs. More than 35 restaurants, hospitals and hotels interview
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Michele Wright, former WPEC-TV news anchor and honorary chairwoman of last year’s Community Caring Center event, with Doreen Robinson, chairwoman of this year’s Dreams Come True Gala set for Nov. 16. Photo provided
By Amy Woods
Thirty years of c
Sherry Johnson speaks with customers at the center’s Secret Garden Café.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Donald Godfrey loads meals he delivers for homebound seniors as Michelle Davis White,
senior Veggie Mobile program director, helps at the
Donald Godfrey and Michelle Davis White load the Veggie Mobile van, which takes meals to senior shut-ins in Boynton Beach.
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By Lona O’Connor
“Meals!” shouts Donald Godfrey, with a hearty knock on the door. In his cheerf
By Amy Woods
“Well, hardest substance found in nature, they cut glass, suggest marriage, I suppose it replaced the dog as the girl’s best friend.”
So said Sean Connery’s James Bond in the movie Diamonds Are Forever, the theme of the Community C
A sampling of the foods the Cornucopia project provides to the needy.
Flowers and cornucopia provided by Lynda Tatara of The Blossom Shoppes in Boynton Beach.
Photo by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
INSET BELOW: Sherry Johnson
Cornucopia program del
By Mary Jane Fine
These are the Mother Hubbard days. In homes all-too-familiar with hunger and homes new to that terror, cupboards are bare. The use of food stamps has quadrupled in Florida over the past four lean years, according to published reports
By Mary Jane Fine
Fourteen years ago, when Sherry Johnson joined the CCC of Boynton Beach, part-time, she began questioning the way tummies were being filled. “When you’re serving a community where people have a lot of high blood pressure, and you’re
