Sycamore Center and Urban Mission partnering for summer food program

STEUBENVILLE -- Partnering with Urban Mission Ministries, the Sycamore Youth and Community Center will continue to offer summer meals for pickup each Friday while mobilizing its efforts by combining with the Urban Mission Mobile Food Pantry, according to Bobbyjon Bauman, center director.

Sycamore's Weekend Food Program takes place each Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Parents, guardians and friends are encouraged to pick up a bag containing breakfast and lunch for kindergarten through 12th-grade students at the Sycamore Center, located at 301 N. Fourth St.

Urban Mission is offering its Mobile Summer Food Pantry on Wednesdays and Fridays beginning Wednesday and ending Aug. 14.

"On Fridays, Urban Mission will be assisted by the Sycamore Youth and Community Center in order to provide meals and food to a larger number of children in the Steubenville community," Bauman explained. The Sycamore Youth Center will distribute ready-to-eat meals for the weekend alongside the shelf stable pantry foods that will be provided to the children.

Times and locations for the Mobile Food Pantry/Sycamore Weekend Meal program are as follows:

– Ridgewood Place Apartments (Wintersville): 11:30 a.m.;

– Briarwood Apartments (Wintersville): 11:55 a.m.;

– Elmer White Family Units (North End, Steubenville): 12:20 p.m.

– Heritage Place Apartments (Market Square- Steubenville): 12:45 p.m.;

– Earl Rogers Plaza (South End, Steubenville): 1:10 p.m.; and

– Water tower (Maryland Ave/Carnegie Street-Steubenville): 2 p.m.

For information on the Mobile Summer Food Pantry, contact Cynthia Lytle, summer food program director, Urban Mission Ministries, at (740) 282-8010. For information about Sycamore Weekend Food Program, contact Bauman at (608) 556-3068.