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February 17, 2012

Regional Food Pantries

The Daily News of Newburyport Fri Feb 17, 2012, 03:30 AM EST

The following is a list of food pantries in the Greater Newburyport area.

Donations are always needed of non-perishable food items, particularly jelly, mayonnaise, ketchup, pasta sauce, canned stews, hearty soups, boxed meals and snacks that can be put in children's lunches, such as fruit cups and juice boxes.

Also household cleaning products, toiletries and hygiene items, including shampoo, soap, toilet paper, toothpaste and toothbrushes, deodorant, feminine products and diapers of all sizes.

Donations by cash or checks are always welcome.

Our Neighbors' Table

Serves Amesbury, Boxford, Byfield, Georgetown, Groveland, Merrimac, Newbury, Newburyport, Salisbury, South Hampton, West Newbury.

145 Main St., Amesbury

Hours: Monday, Tuesday and Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Wednesday night meals: 4 to 6 p.m.

Sunday Night Soups: Pilgrim Congregational Church, 27 Church St., Merrimac, 4 to 5:30 p.m., on the last Sunday of each month, October through April.

Saturday food pantry: For residents of Amesbury and South Hampton, every Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to noon. Open to residents of Merrimac, Newburyport, Newbury, West Newbury, Groveland, Salisbury, Rowley, Byfield, Boxford and Georgetown.

Merrimac mobile food pantry (Merrimac residents only). Every first and third Saturday, 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., Merrimac Senior Center, 100 East Main St., Merrimac.

For more information, call 978-388-1907, Emergency Food Hotline: 978-835-3016, or visit www.ourneighborstable.org

Community Action, Inc.

Serves Amesbury and Merrimac only.

Amesbury Center Food Pantry

44A Friend St., Amesbury

978-388-2570

Hours: Monday and Tuesday, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; Thursday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Community Service of Newburyport

Serves Newbury, Newburyport and West Newbury

31 Green St., Newburyport

Hours: Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

978-465-7562, www.communityserviceofnewburyport.com.

Salvation Army of Newburyport

40 Water St., Newburyport

Serves the Greater Newburyport area

Food Pantry: Monday and Wednesday, 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., Thursday, 12:30 to 5 p.m.

Meal programs: Wednesday lunch, 11:10 a.m. to noon; Thursday dinner, 5 p.m.

For more information, call 978-465-0883

The Pettengill House

13 Lafayette Road, Salisbury

Serves communities throughout the lower Merrimack Valley

Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Tuesday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

For more information, call Tiffany Nigro, assistant director, at 978-463-8801 or visit www.pettengillhouse.org.

Community Action Program of Rockingham County

Route 1, Seabrook

Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 9 a.m. to noon

For more information, call 603-474-3507

Salvation Army

Serves coastal New Hampshire

High Street, Hampton, N.H.

Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

For more information, call 603-929-1729

Seabrook Community Table

Mondays, free meals are served at the Church of Christ, 867 Lafayette Road (beside the dance studio) from 5 to 6 p.m. Each Tuesday and Wednesday, meals are served at the Trinity Parish House (beside the Seabrook Post Office) from 5 to 6 p.m. Meals are offered to surrounding communities as well as Seabrook residents.

For more information, or to volunteer, contact Joyce Addison at 603-474-9608.

Seacoast Family Food Pantry

Serves Seabrook and coastal New Hampshire

Junkins Avenue, Portsmouth, N.H.

For more information, call 603-436-0641 or visit seacoastfamilyfoodpantry.org