Be nice to church volunteers

[mary51802]

As some of you may know, St Barts in Pittsboro serves a community lunch every Thursday for the needy and hungry although all are welcome. This past Thursday the hard working volunteers had prepared a great lunch and used some peanut oil and nicely put out a sign to warn people with allergies.

When one of the bio fuel people who eats there saw it they proceeded to berate an older volunteer about the evils of peanut oil and she was practically brought to tears.

Please remember people that all goods are kindly donated from stores and thoughtful individuals and we use what we get. Not everything is organic and not everything is natural so if you do not care for what is served PLEASE donate what you think we need. This lunch is a service to the community by very gracious volunteers and they need and deserve  respect!

I do not understand why people must make other people feel badly if they do not think the same way.

[countyfan]

i have met the volunteers at the luncheon and they are good souls.
the fact that anyone would chide them for their work is really unconscionable.
and why was the biofuels person there?
to eat or volunteer?
this is wrong.

[Country Baby]

i have met the volunteers at the luncheon and they are good souls.
the fact that anyone would chide them for their work is really unconscionable.
and why was the biofuels person there?
to eat or volunteer?
this is wrong.

this reminds me of the person who berated a volunteer effort at a Food Bank to provide two bags of groceries per week for families of 4 or more who do not qualify for food stamps. We included peanut butter because securing non-perishable protein from donated foods to the Food Bank is very difficult, so peanut butter we knew we could provide. That said, that person nearly halted the entire program until thankfully a more public official stepped in to call them off.

Yes it's wrong, particularly now when unemployment just continues to rise making it very hard for good souls to find work and be fed adequately.

[Donnie Springfield]

That's uncalled for.  Passion is admirable, but it's no excuse for lack of tact.

[whoopdedo1]

and why was the biofuels person there?
to eat or volunteer?

Possibly because he/she is too cheap to buy his/her own lunch.

[snowcamper]

Makes me want to make a bunch of PB&J sandwiches and hand them out at the next "First Sunday" event in PBO.  Some little person with nothing better to do with their time might just come up and make my day interesting...

As a side note, I saw Donna Bianco (Neighborhood School Person), post something similar that happened to the "shrimp guy" in Pittsboro.

I don't know him, and I don't know first hand about the situation, but it seems that he was being berated for not having "locally grown" shrimp, but for bringing them up here from Louisianna...  Geeze people, get a life.  Or at least keep your religion to yourselves.

[Populist]

The other day someone questioned me on my patriotism and said my free flag pin was too small. I was flummoxed. Now I am afraid to leave the house unless I wear extra large flag pins. I never knew I would suffer from flag pin envy.

My Amish friends rode their ox cart to the "Old Fashioned" day a few weeks back in Silk Hope. They wrote me a letter on hemp paper, which was sealed in wax and just delivered by the pony express. The letter said that they "were confused with the new fangled industrial revolution" and said it was not "old fashioned" enough. 

To quote Rodney King, "can't we all just get along."

[Claude Bowles]

Omigod . . . Snowcamper and I agree on something!!!

I'm active in a couple local volunteer organizations and I have never stood shoulder-to-shoulder with a better bunch of caring, dedicated people. They give of their time and their finances to help the less fortunate and deserve to be respected for what they do.

My wife and I also contribute excess bounty from our garden in the summer and I know the folks at St. Bart's to be a great bunch of people. If I heard someone acting out like peanut-brain, I think I would take him/her aside and deliver a lecture on gratitude.

Say Snowy, you don't think you and I agreeing about something is a sign of the end times, do you?

Bwahhhhhaaha.

[snowcamper]

No Claude, not the end times, but I did start my countdown clock running when I read your post...it's almost 2012!   

I don't know anyone from St. Barts, but from the posts on the Chatlist, they seem like one of the most active church communities in Chatham County...
They're spreading the Word, feeding the hungry, and doing it all with good cheer.  What more could you ask for?  Too bad some people are too close minded to appreciate the simple things in life.

[mary51802]

Thanks all for the support! I do not know why the biofuels kids come there. Although all are welcome we have a hard time enough getting donated goods for the needy. I heard this from my husband who volunteers for the lunch duty and all were quite shocked.
I must say I am not surprised as it is the same group who berated business owners for not taking the Plenty. I wish they would be like the hippies of old and live and let live. Too much anger nowadays.

[Populist]

Food quality and personal health are related issues. It would be nice and appropriate for all parties to share and learn.

[mary51802]

Food quality and personal health are related issues. It would be nice and appropriate for all parties to share and learn.

There is a time and place for that. Not at a free, donation prepared lunch and yelling at a little old lady who probably does not even know the difference on organic or not. They need to find a better way.

[chathamgardener]

No one believes more in the value of organically grown food than me. I grow my own vegetables organically. Almost all the produce we buy is organically grown. But I am blessed to be able to make that choice by virtue of my family's income level.

I'm totally with Mary here. For the people St. Bart's is trying to serve, the choice is between any food and no food. Under those circumstances, ANY FOOD, prepared with attention and dedication by volunteers should be embraced with enthusiasm.

Many venues exist to discuss the merits of healthful eating. All are welcome to go there and learn. The St. Bart's free lunch is not such a venue.

The hungry poor are just trying to keep body and soul together. And I, for one, commend the St. Bart's volunteers for aiding that goal.

[mamacash2]

Food quality and personal health are related issues. It would be nice and appropriate for all parties to share and learn.

There is a time and place for that. Not at a free, donation prepared lunch and yelling at a little old lady who probably does not even know the difference on organic or not. They need to find a better way.

Totally agree there is a time and a place...BUT there also seems to be an arrogance and self righteousness to these attacks...how can someone truly believe they have the right to attack some little old lady at a church function....who is doing something to help the community...WOW the arrogance continues.

[integrityticket]

Was it Matthew Rudolf, Pittsboro Plenty’s Goodwill Ambassador?

http://chathamchatlist.com/highlights/2009/06/02/beware-of-matthew-rudolf-pittsboro-plentys-goodwill-ambassador/

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