Maintaining the Facility & Program

Office & Warehouse Use

FISH – Friends In Service to Humanity

Since the Friendship Center Open House and Dedication in May 2, 2004, Friends of the Carpenter has offered storage and staging space to FISH.  They dispense food from St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, but have storage capacity at the Friendship Center for nearly 100,000 pounds of food.  Additionally, a walk-in-freezer has been installed in the building allowing for the storage of meats.  FISH holds title to the cargo van that is shared and operated jointly by FISH and FOC.

Walk & Knock – This year, the Friendship Center was the location for folding the paper sacks that were placed in the Clark County, Oregonian Newspapers.  Over 60 persons gathered to complete the project.

The Fort Vancouver Lion’s Club - used the Friendship Center as a staging area for their annual fruit sale fund raiser.  Forty pallets of apples and pears were sorted, boxed and prepared for individual delivery.

Evergreen Habitat for Humanity – In preparation for their Restore/Recycle Liquidation Store, Friends of the Carpenter stored initial donations which later were taken to their new site.

Salvation Army – In December, The Salvation Army used the neighboring vacant warehouse as their distribution site for Christmas gift boxes of food, clothing and toys.  They were most appreciative of the 40, 4’ x 8’ FOC tables which we use for the annual rummage sale.

Containers & Truck Storage

Over the past year, there were 3 full time and one part-time trucker making use of our lot.  A third container was added to the lot, and this is being used to store items for the rummage sale. 

Thoughts from Bill …  Being Yard Manager for FOC is a honor for me.  The people that live on the yard are a great asset to FOC and me personally.  They are more than people we are helping; they are my friends.  I’m looking forward to a great year in 2009.  I really would like to thank everyone that has helped FOC.  Without you we sure couldn’t do what we do.  Thank you and God Bless.

Bill Jennings, Yard Manager