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Community Services
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The Newark Ohio Community Services Center, a non-profit organization, is manned entirely by volunteers. Our aim is to cheerfully and respectfully supply needs without regard to race, religion, or national origin in the name and through the love of Jesus, who said, ". . . as you have done it to the least of these . . . you have done it to me."
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News August 27, 2007
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Adventist
Community Services Center to
Relocate
Building
Needs Extreme Makeover That Budget
Won’t Cover; Sale and Relocation Imminent
For
the past several years,
it has become increasingly more evident that the building in which this
Food
Pantry Network affiliate is currently located is deteriorating too
rapidly for
the all-volunteer non-profit organization to fix with the donations
they
regularly receive. Having received a generous buy-out offer, the center
is
now—and has been for months—searching the city for a new location they
can
afford. So far, no luck.
There
are several buildings
that would suffice, but the prices are so high that there would be no
money
left over for the extensive renovations those buildings would need.
Since none
of the owners or realtors that have been contacted seem able or willing
to help
with the 5,000 to 6,000 sq. ft. needs of the Adventist Community
Services, the
only avenues left are letting the public know of their needs or
relocating to
their Church property on Linnville Rd, where they could build both a
Community
Services facility and a school for less than the price of
adequate-sized
down-town buildings, even before renovation costs.
The
Adventist Community
Services Center has been in operation in Newark since 1951 in one form
or
another and in one location or another. The mission of the center is to
provide
food, clothing, linen, housewares, furniture, and small (and sometimes
large)
appliances to the low-income residents of Newark and surrounding
communities
either free of charge or at below bargain-basement prices. They also
have
provided cooking classes, stop smoking clinics, and other health and
Bible
seminars, as well as their Carrousel Thrift Store and Labor-day
Parking-lot
Sale. Every year they have helped several thousand people, and they
hope to
continue to do so until Jesus returns.
Send your comments and questions to our local director, Lynda Karr.
newarkohsdacs.org