Second Thoughts

Racked with sleeplessness as always, I kept turning over in my mind scenarios for the Food Bank. While the talk of our expansion remains just that for now, people are humming. My visit to the West Side Catholic Center was an eyeopener. However, if we are going to expand our service offerings...I am not quite sure that is the way to go. Much of what we do at the Ozanam Center is guided to helping the working poor (though we could offer services to the indigent), while at the WSCC, they offer services to the homeless, the mentally ill, etc. We don't have that problem (yet) in Slavic Village. Quite frankly, I would think that the services we should we offering at the expanded center should be those to make people less poor- resume writing, job training, budgeting, life skills, smoking and alcohol remission, etc.

All of this is far to the future, since we will need more space, cash and resources before we can consider any sort of expansion....and this is good.