Portage Exchange Club presents check to Portage Food Pantry

PORTAGE | The Portage Exchange Club welcomed two representatives from the Portage Food Pantry to its October 31 meeting. Board member Linda Roque and Director of Volunteers Sarah Tracy gave the club an update on the Pantry’s needs and activities.

Empty Bowls Project raises $3000 for Portage Food Pantry

Representatives from several groups involved in the 2012 Empty Bowls Project attended the Portage Food Pantry's Board Meeting and presented checks totaling $3000. This was the highest amount ever raised by the Empty Bowls Project, which started in Portage in 2007.

Members Advantage Credit Union donates $1,000 to Portage Food Pantry

PORTAGE | During the recent holiday season, Members Advantage Credit Union made a donation in the amount of $1,000 to the Portage Township Food Pantry.

Portage Food Pantry soap drive

PORTAGE | The Portage Food Pantry is especially encouraging donations of bar soap, an item that clients cannot purchase with food stamps. Donations can be dropped off at the pantry, located in the back of the Portage Adult Education Center at 5391 Central Avenue from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. on F…

Portage ends sponsorship of adult education

PORTAGE | Portage Township Schools will no longer be a provider of adult education services.

Portage resident rallies volunteers to help buy turkeys for the needy

For a number of years, Portage resident Chuck Haskell has made the Thanksgiving holiday brighter for some of the less fortunate in the community by donating turkeys. This year, Haskell was joined by others in the community to purchase gift certificates for turkeys from Portage's Beef Mart. J…

Portage resident rallies volunteers to help buy turkeys for the needy

Portage Food Pantry seeks soap donations

The Portage Food Pantry is encouraging donations of bar soap, an item that clients cannot buy with food stamps.