- May 5, 2024
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Catie Ferritto, Miss Daytona 2014, volunteered at an adult day care, and Halifax Urban Ministries expands its food drive, homeless-prevention services.
BY THE OBSERVER STAFF
Miss Daytona doing good
Ormond Beach’s Catie Ferritto, who was crowned Miss Daytona 2014 in May, visited Sr.’s Are Us Adult Day Care, in Holly Hill, this month to volunteer her time with the residents.
The Seabreeze High School graduate spent time at the center, which serves residents with physical, psychological and developmental disabilities.
Ferritto will represent Daytona Beach in the Miss Florida Pageant in July.
HUM: Shooting for a million
Halifax Urban Ministries’ Love Your Neighbor Food Drive now has more than 60 collection bins throughout the county, where residents can help HUM in its effort to raise a million pounds of nonperishable goods for the local hungry.
“Summer is a tough time: The needs are greater, but donations go down,” P. Charli Elliot, HUM’s operations manager explained. Elliot has been a HUM employee for the past eight years and has recently been made the manager of the ministry’s new homeless prevention services, which will help residents learn about budgeting, resume-building, applying for disability and low-income housing.
More than 2,400 families every month receive a package of groceries and several frozen food items from HUM. The facility will also distribute more than 600 tons of food this year, 360 tons more than it distributed in 2012.
For a full list of food drop-offs, visit www.HalifaxUrbanMinistries.org.
*To apply for Halifax Urban Ministry’s sixth-annual Golfin’4 Homeless Prevention, Aug. 10, at River Bend Golf Club, call 252-0156, or email [email protected], before Aug. 2. Entry is $75 per player.
