St. Mary’s Catholic Church parishioners donates to Harrison County senior citizens in need

Home-bound seniors in Harrison County received a very generous and helpful donation this week.

The ‘emergency pantry’ at the Harrison County Senior Resources Agency is now a little more full thanks to the parishioners of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Woolmarket.

The agency feeds about 1,000 seniors with in-home meals and caseworkers soon realized about 90 percent of seniors’ immediate needs were cleaning supplies and paper goods like toilet paper and paper towels. Thad Anderson with St. Mary’s Catholic Church said, “In order to qualify for home-bound meals, a caseworker has to go into the home and assess the need for home-bound meals. And sometimes they come back in tears because there’s such a dire need for things like this. For someone living on a very limited income, this is one of the last things they’re gonna spend their dollar on, and most people donate food, which is good and necessary, but this is greatly needed.”

Their goal now is to encourage other churches to donate in the same way.