Community Corner
St. Anthony's Medical Center Hosts Pauper's Meal to Benefit Storm Victims
St. Anthony’s Medical Center is hoping people will have a big appetite for helping others on Jan. 19 when the hospital offers a “Pauper’s Meal” to raise funds for local victims of the recent tornadoes.
St. Anthony’s food service employees will serve a traditional Pauper’s Meal – a meager fare of soup and bread – to hospital employees and visitors in the hospital cafeteria for a free-will offering, with a minimum requested donation of $5 each.
The money collected for the meals will be donated to tornado relief efforts to assist residents of Crestwood, Sunset Hills and Fenton – neighboring communities to St. Anthony’s. The mayors from each of the three communities have been invited to share the Pauper’s Meal. Sister Sandra Straub, CSJ, director of mission integration at St. Anthony’s, said the meal promotes the medical center’s mission.
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“We believe this opportunity calls us to engage one another and to bring to life St. Anthony’s community outreach values,” Sister Sandra said. “This seems like the perfect thing to do to help those in our community who are suffering as a result of the storms.”
Several of St. Anthony’s vendors have donated their products for the Pauper’s Meal, including soup from both Campbell’s and Heinz; bread from Companion; plastic utensils and paper products from Renard Paper Co.; aprons and gloves from the U.S. Food Service, and rentals from Grand Rental Station.
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Area residents are invited to partake in the Pauper’s Meal, which will be served from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from 4 to 6:30 p.m. in the cafeteria on the lower level of the hospital. St. Anthony’s is located at 10010 Kennerly Road in south St. Louis County, off Tesson Ferry Road just south of I-270. For more information, call 314-ANTHONY (268-4669).
Anyone who cannot attend the meal but wishes to donate toward the tornado relief effort may send a check made out to St. Anthony’s Medical Center—tornado fund to St. Anthony’s Medical Center, Office of Mission Integration, 10010 Kennerly Road, St. Louis, Mo. 63128.
