Pulse of the Community- POC

06/17/2026

🌺 Compassion Café Free Community Dinner 🌺

Join us at Kelly A. Burlison Middle School for a free community meal!

🍝 Menu: Spaghetti, Garlic Bread & Vegetables
🕚 Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 Noon

☀️ 2026 Summer Meal Dates
📅 June 20
📅 July 18
📅 August 15

💐 Meals are available to-go or dine-in.
🌼 Shelf-stable food bags will also be available while supplies last.
🌷 Please help us spread the word!

❤️ Thank you to our sponsor, First State Community Bank, for supporting this community event.

05/26/2026

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

05/12/2026

05/11/2026

We hope you’ll join us on Saturday 5/16/26 for a hot nutritious meal. We’ll be serving from 11-12.

🌷Meals can be taken to go, or you may stay and dine with us.

💐Please help us spread the word.

☀️In addition to a meal we’ll have shelf stable food available (while supplies last)

🌼Thank you to our sponsor!

🌺SATURDAY 2026 MEAL DATES☀️

6/20/26
7/18/26
8/15/26
9/19/26
10/17/26
11/21/26
12/5/26

04/26/2026

Let's plan our 10th Annual Event!
Date: April 2027
Please comment below to provide a portion or all of any of the listed supplies. Please remember any help is welcome and appreciated, we only ask that you commit to what you volunteer for.
Thanks everyone!

Hamburgers, hotdogs, buns: Trent✅
Individual bags of chips (Total of 200): Diane
Individual snack cakes ( Total 200):
Ketchup (2 16oz bottles): Jose
Bbq sauce ( 2 16oz bottles): Jose
Bottle Water (Total of 200): Jose
Coolers (lend out and return 4): Diana Smith
4 large bags of ice: Jose
Disposable pans: Jose
To-go Boxes (Total of 100): Diana
Haircuts: Eddie, Randi✅
Supplies for haircuts (disposable capes, barbicide, combs): Randi✅
Socks and undergarments (men, women, teens, kids):
Hygiene Products (soap, shampoo, razors, shaving cream, toothbrush, toothpaste, feminine hygiene, deodorant):

Volunteers:
Trent Potter- cook, bringing grill✅
Eddie- transport/set up/ take down✅

04/26/2026

💥 What a great turnout today! We were able to serve almost 300 people with clothing, hygiene supplies, food, and/or haircuts! Thank you so much to everyone who donated and shared our event. You all are the ones that keep it going every single year and we truly appreciate you! Next year will be a big 10 years and we’re super excited!

04/26/2026