Welcome to the NEW Hooker Herald! This will be an email newsletter that will be sent out to current paid membership volunteers 3 times a month!

Members will still be encouraged to visit the website for up to date news, minutes, financials and event committee meeting minutes. 

 Message from Chaplain Grateful Genie

Questions to ask ourselves while we quarantine:

1.  Who am I checking on or connecting with today?

2.  What expectation of "normal" am I letting go today?

3.  How am I getting outside today?

4.  How am I moving my body today?

5.  How am I expressing my creativity today?

6.  What type of self care am I practicing today?

7.  What am I grateful for today?

Author unknown - borrowed from a Facebook post 

The 28th annual Letter Carriers' Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive, scheduled for May 9, 2020, has been postponed. The National Association of Letter Carriers as well as their national food partners, are fully committed to rescheduling the food drive later in 2020. A new date has not yet been scheduled. 

Each year this drive has been truly a blessing for the Pine Island Food Pantry and often the donations, which have totaled more than 6,000 pounds of food yearly, stock the Panty through the long hot summer months. Pine Island Food Pantry serves Pine Island and Matlacha residents and it is the only Lee County food pantry that is allowed to keep food donations collected on the island during the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.

The Pantry is open Mondays and Thursdays from 8:30 -10:30am, but closed holidays.  It is located at the Life Center at Our Lady of Miraculous Church on 12175 Stringfellow Rd. in Bokeelia.  For directions and a list of pantry needs, visit their new website at https://pineislandfoodpantry.org/

Donations of nonperishable food can be dropped off at the following locations: Winn-Dixie, V.F.W., American Legion, Pine Island Moose, Stonegate Bank and the Matlacha Post Office. Monetary donations can be mailed to Pine Island Food Pantry 12175 Stringfellow Rd, Bokeelia, FL 33922. Checks should be made out to the “Pine Island Food Pantry. Any questions please call 239-443-6561 and leave a message. Our Email is pineislandfoodpantry@gmail.com 

DONATIONS MAY ALSO BE DROPPED IN MATLACHA AT CINDY WALTON'S 

2669 BRIDGEVIEW STREET

AND IN BOKEELIA AT CHRIS BUNTIN'S 

8209 MOYER LANE

Most Needed Pantry Items 

·  Cereal 

·  Peanut Butter and Jelly

·  Canned Fruits and Canned Vegetables

·  Spaghetti Sauce, Canned Pasta,  Tomatoes & Tomato Sauce 

·  Rice, Canned Potatoes and Spaghetti Noodles

·  Canned Tuna, Chicken and Beef

·  Macaroni and Cheese & Hamburger Helper 

·  Baked Beans, Pork and Beans & small packages of instant potatoes 

·  Chicken Noodle, Tomato and other Hearty Soups

·  Toilet Paper, Bar Soap, Shampoo & Toothpaste

·  Dry Dog Food & Dry and Canned Cat Food  

 NEW NOTE CARDS AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE

SET OF 4 FOR $5.00

Contact Billie 814-404-0378 to arrange for pick-up or shipping