Thelma Skelton Loaves & Fishes Center will host a Neighborhood Holiday Bazaar on Friday, Dec. 5, from noon to 6 p.m. at the Center. It takes place immediately prior to the First Friday Artwalk. The event will feature unique handmade items and holiday décor produced by History Image Gallery and a variety of local neighborhood artists, hot spiced cider and refreshments, and music by Portland Ragtime Society. Proceeds will help provide hot meals to homebound seniors in the Brooklyn and Sellwood neighborhoods.

Thelma Skelton Loaves & Fishes Center is located at 3925 SE Milwaukie Avenue in Portland. For more information, contact Manager Lynn Chowning at 503.952.8209.

Since 1970 Loaves & Fishes Centers has provided a nutritional and social lifeline for seniors through 32 meal sites in Multnomah, Washington and Clark counties and Meals-On-Wheels delivery to homebound seniors. With the help of more than 7,400 volunteers, the nonprofit, secular agency now serves 5,000 meals daily and more than 1.4 million meals each year. Loaves & Fishes Centers was named one of the “Ten Most Admired Companies” in Oregon in the non profit category by The Portland Business Journal in 2006.

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Media inquiries should be directed to:
Julie Piper Finley, ABC,
Director of Marketing & Communications
(503) 736-6325 ext. 25936
mediarelations@lfcpdx.org

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