NOSH Delivers! Marks Third Anniversary

It was March 2020. Business was grounding to a halt for restaurants, travel, entertainment venues and hotels as people stayed home in fear of contracting COVID. Schools had closed, switching to remote learning which meant that a parent had to be at home, not at work.

In the face of this lockdown, it was clear that unemployment and resultant food insecurity would almost immediately become widespread. Courtney Callahan, director of outreach for St. John of Lattingtown Episcopal Church and a veteran of serving the hungry and homeless, reached out to friends and to representatives of community organizations such as the North Shore Soup Kitchen (NSSK), Glen Cove Senior Center, Glen Cove High School and others. Together, they formed the nucleus of an organization that would solicit and distribute groceries to those in need.

From the outset, the group realized that they would have to provide this food assistance by delivering directly to recipients’ homes rather than asking people to come to a pantry.

They chose the name NOSH as it is a word that is fondly associated with food. This nucleus of people that created NOSH then worked to spread word of the need for donations of food.

But lacking a budget to pay rent, they needed a free location to operate from, to receive food donations and to prepare distributions of food for home delivery. Allen Hudson, an administrator, now principal, of Glen Cove High School, thought that the school building might be able to provide a space adjacent to its own food pantry. He involved District Superintendent Dr. Maria L. Rianna. Together they created a first home for NOSH.

Then, with a place to operate from, Linda Eastman of Glen Cove designed NOSH’s systems to receive, organize, package and then deliver donated groceries to recipients in their homes.

She continues to serve as NOSH’S director of operations.

Callahan’s mentor, Estelle Moore of NSSK and the NSSK board, an organiza- tion with more than 30 years of feeding the hungry, provided guidance to NOSH as well as the fledgling organization’s crucial not-for-profit status that would allow them to accept donations from individuals, supermarkets and the area’s major food banks such as Long Island Cares and Island Harvest. Soon outgrowing its home at the high school, NOSH moved to The Church of St. Rocco and then to the VFW Hall, both in Glen Cove.

Following a devastating fire at the VFW Hall, NOSH was again in need of a home base, a need that was generously met by The People’s Pantry of Oyster Bay, St. Hyacinth Church, The View Restaurant and Grill, and the Glen Cove Senior Center, each of which provided temporary work spaces until NOSH contracted for

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After having been closed for years, the Morgan Park bathhouse has had a complete facelift – a new plumbing system installed (not just fixtures), a new roof-rafters/joists replaced along with Azek fascia and soffits, Hardie Board siding, a new epoxy system floor, new partitions installed and painted. Complete and ready for Spring and beyond.

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With NOSH increasingly becoming a larger, more complex organization, over 160 volunteers have since come forward to serve as manager/supervisors, fundraisers, clerical assistants, graphic designers, sorters and packers of donated groceries, slicers of donated bread and delivery drivers of NOSH Bags to recipients’ homes.

As NOSH, now known as NOSH Delivers!, reached its third anniversary this month, it notes that since the organization’s inception in 2020, groceries equaling nearly 500,000 meals have been delivered or otherwise provided to residents across the North Shore, primarily from Roslyn to Bayville. However,

Christine Rice, the chairwoman of NOSH’s board of directors, stresses that although the worst of the COVID epidemic has abated, instances of food insecurity have sharply increased due to inflationary food prices along with the end of the COVIDera expansion of SNAP benefits (the federal government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). As a result, Rice says that NOSH Delivers! is now assisting a surging number of individuals and families to meet their food needs.

Having now obtained its own nonprofit status, NOSH Delivers! is a 501c3 not-forprofit organization; all contributions are tax deductible to the full extent of the law. To learn more or to donate, please visit www. noshdelivers.org.

—Submitted by NOSH DELIVERS!

Holy Week And Easter Schedule

APRIL 2, 2023 - PALM SUNDAY

The Solemn Entry of Our Lord into Jerusalem

AT ST. PATRICK CHURCH

235 Glen Street, Glen Cove

516.676.0276

7:45 am Mass with Blessing of Palms

8:30 am Bendición de los Ramos (en frente del Gimnasio). Procesión, Misa (Romero Hall)

10:15 am Blessing of Palms (in front of the gym). Procession, Mass

11:45 am Mass with Blessing of Palms

5:00 pm Mass with Blessing of Palms

AT ST. ROCCO

18 Third Street, Glen Cove 516.676.2482

AT ST. HYACINTH

319 Cedar Swamp Road, Glen Head 516.674.3146

7:30 am with Blessing of Palms

HOLY WEEK

9:00 am Mass with Blessing of Palms

11:15 am Mass in Polish with Blessing of Palms

APRIL 3, 2023 - MONDAY OF HOLY WEEK

9:00 am Mass followed by Confessions (ca. 9:30)

2-4 pm Confessions (in the Church)

6-9 pm Confessions/Confesiones (in the Church/en el Templo)

2-4 pm Confessions

6-9 pm Confessions (in Polish from 7 - 9 pm)

APRIL 4, 2023 - TUESDAY OF HOLY WEEK

9:00 am Mass, followed by Confessions (ca. 9:30)

8:15 am Mass

APRIL 5, 2023 - WEDNESDAY OF HOLY WEEK (SPY WEDNESDAY)

9:00 am Mass, followed by Confessions (ca. 9:30)

7:00 pm Low Mass, Confession (until 8:30)

8:15 am Mass

THE SACRED TRIDUUM of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

9:00 am Liturgy of the Hours (Lauds), followed by Confessions (ca. 9:30)

7:30 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper/Misa de la Cena del Señor (Romero Hall). Eucharistic Procession to the Altar of Repose in the Church. Adoration in the Church until 10:00 pm

9:00 am Liturgy of the Hours (Lauds), followed by Confessions (ca. 9:30)

6:30 pm Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion (Romero Hall)

8:00 pm Via Crucis en Vivo (Romero Hall)

APRIL 6, 2023 - HOLY THURSDAY of the Lord’s Supper. Eucharistic Procession to the Altar of Repose in the Madonna Room until Midnight

7:30 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper. Eucharistic Procession to the Altar of Repose. Adoration until Midnight

APRIL 7, 2023 - GOOD FRIDAY

3:00 pm Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion

7:30 pm Stations of the Cross (Polish)

APRIL 8, 2023 - HOLY SATURDAY

9:00 am Liturgy of the Hours (Matins and Lauds), followed by Confessions (ca. 9:30)

There are no Confessions at 3:30 pm / No hay Confesiones a las 3:30 pm. There is no 4:30 pm Mass on Holy Saturday / No hay Misa a las 4:30 pm.

8:00 pm The Easter Vigil/La Vigilia Pascual - Blessing of Fire and Paschal Candle (in front of the Gym)/ Bendición del Fuego y del Cirio Pascual (en frente del Gimnasio)

7:45 am Mass

8:30 am Misa en Español (Romero Hall)

10:30 am Mass

11:45 am Mass

There is no 5:00 pm Mass on Easter Sunday/No hay Misa a las 5:00 pm.

9:00 am Blessing of Easter Baskets

10:00 am Blessing of Easter Baskets

11:00 am Blessing of Easter Baskets

There are no Confessions at 4:00 pm. There is no 5:00 pm Mass on Holy Saturday.

7:30 pm The Easter Vigil. Blessing of Fire and Paschal Candle.

APRIL 9, 2023 - EASTER SUNDAY

6:00 am Resurrection Procession and Mass (Polish)

9:00 am Mass

11:15 am Mass (Polish)

ATTENTION: On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Easter Week (April 10, 11, and 12) there will be only one daily Mass, at St Patrick, the Territorial Parish, at 9:00 am. There will be no Low Mass/Adoration/Confession on Wednesday of Easter Week (April 12)