Baristas at the Old Saybrook Starbucks presented SSKP volunteer Lindas Dillon with a $300 donation, proceeds from their 2nd Annual Holiday Ornament sale, featuring hand decorated coffee cup ornaments. Thank you, Starbucks! 

Connecticut Water recently made a $2,500 donation to SSKP’s “Gowrie Challenge, through a special promotion held in 2016. Between April and October, every time a CT Water customer signed up for paperless E-billing, the company pledged a $1 donation to benefit local food pantries. By joining the Gowrie Challenge, they were able to leverage their gift with matching funds, helping to provide even more food to those in need.

“Water and food are two things that everyone recognizes as our most basic needs”, said Patty Dowling, SSKP Executive Director. “We feel so blessed that CT Water and their customers came together to provide such generous support to our community. Thank you!”

 

Pictured (l-r) Kay Ann Laud, CT Water Customer Account Analyst, Lindas Dillon, Gowrie employee and former SSKP Board member, Ruth Brown, CT Water Customer Service Coordinator, Patty Dowling, SSKP Executive Director, Art O'Neill, CT Water Director of Customer Service, and Chris Broduer, Gowrie Group Senior Vice President.

Valley Regional High School's Student Council held a bake sale to benefit SSKP.

Pictured is Matthew O'Keefe, President, and Mrs. Jessica Dwyer, Advisor, presenting a check for $325.  Thank you!

 

Hands and Hearts of Essex, a grass roots organization designed to teach Elementary children about volunteering, collected 1,503 pounds of food at the Colonial Market for The Shoreline Soup Kitchens & Pantires, Inc.