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Terre Haute
Celebrates Eldora Brown Day
 Eldora
Brown has been with our Community Center from the beginning. She
started in the kitchen lovingly preparing meals and then when we
needed a volunteer coordinator she, thankfully was willing to fill
the shoes of that difficult task, a job she performed flawlessly.
Even with the many hours she spent coordinating volunteers, she
occasionally found herself back in the kitchen happily preparing
meals. Eldora's compassion for the children and her appreciation and
respect for the volunteers is an important part of the success of
the Community Center. We are all saddened by her recent illness, her
pain is not great but she is rapidly losing her mobility. She is
unable to spend very much time at the Center, and the joy of her
presence is greatly missed. We wish her the best and remember her in
our prayers. On November 19, 2002 the City of Terre Haute recognized
her value to the community by declaring it to be Eldora Brown Day. A
ceremony covered by both of the local television stations was held
at the mayor's office. Eldora was overwhelmed by the attention and
when asked why she did it she simply said, "Because God called...I
simply answered." God bless you Eldora...we love you. |
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Commodity Day at
Mother Hubbard's Cupboard
 Commodity
day was very stressful. After finding out the night before at 9:30
pm commodities would be arriving around 1:00 pm today, we panicked
because we had not lined up help ahead of time. At one point the
help consisted of two 50+ women, one 70+ woman and a very reluctant
husband.
Don Peters arrived with a very large open trailer filled with cases
of food. Miraculously, a few people arrived who had responded to
frantic pleas on their answering machines. The work began and work
it was. Counting, dating, lifting, carrying up and down stairs,
pushing, pulling, and hauling are all words to describe our efforts
on commodity day. Not a fun day but all necessary in order to
provide for the needs of this community. We are all exhausted but
through all the wonderful efforts of these volunteers, Mother
Hubbard's Cupboard is up and going for another day of giving to the
hungry households through 14th and Chestnut Community Center. |
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Volunteers at the Center |
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 Local
high school students help prepare food baskets for center families. |
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 Volunteers
help children with homework at the study table. |
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 Local
volunteers build office for director. |
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Educational programs
at the center. |
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 The
optimist club in cooperation with Big Brother Big Sister provide
mentoring for boys and girls. The children enjoy the time spent with
Big Brother Big Sister. |
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 The
DIVA girls is a program at the center for teenage girls that meets
three times a week. This program was developed by Valerie Craig. The
DIVA girls stand for Dependent Independent Vivacious Adolescents
Gaining Intelligence, Respect and Leadership Skills.
DIVA Girls is aimed at elementary school children, and is an
offshoot of Excellence is My Presence, a self respect project for
high schools that Craig does as a part of her work with the Vigo
County Minority Health Coalition. Despite the program's name, Craig
addresses the participants as "young ladies" and the ladies are
getting the message. " The biggest thing I learned was to respect
other people and their property and respecting myself," said Lisa
Grinstead, a seventh grader at Chauncey Rose Middle School. This
program provides the experiences that the girls need to learn about
caring for others and learning to respect their bodies. |
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 One
class was held on home alone safety. This taught children how to
stay safe when they are home alone. |
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 Local
firemen provide an educational program about fire safety. |
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 Rose
Hulman students put on a science demonstration for the children at
the community center. |
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| Career Days |
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 Local
volunteers are an important part of our weekly career day program. |
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 Local
university students provide good role models. |
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 Fun
time sports and Activities at the Center
Many of the boys that come to the center enjoy coming to shoot some
hoops in our gymnasium. |
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 We
also have a girl scout troop that meets regularly at the center. |
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 A
employee from FUN TIME SCUBA showed the children the scuba equipment
and let them try on the gear. |
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 "Shorty"
the clown visited the children and spoke with them about being a
clown. |
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Holiday Happenings |
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 It
was a memorable Christmas for many children at the center. The
children at the center put on a Christmas play. |
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 The
Kwanis club volunteers to prepare meals at the center at Christmas
time. |
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Meet our Dedicated Staff at
the 14th and Chestnut Community Center. |
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 Stacie
Marlin Coordinator of Children's ministries. |
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 A
member of the board of directors helping a child with a project. |
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How can I Contact the Center? |
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Our Office is open from 9 AM till 6
PM, Monday through Friday. 812-232-3126.
The District Office is open from 8:30 AM till 3 PM, Monday through
Friday. 812-237-0101. Also, Our email address is
14thandchestnut@abcs.com. |
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