The DJ has a nice send-off piece for Mary Watt. I know there are at least two regular Voice readers who are very involved at CALL Primrose.
After 15 years as the executive director of Burlingame nonprofit CALL Primrose, Mary Watt has stepped down to tend to her health....A search for a successor of the 30-year-old organization will take place over the next several months.
“I really encouraged them to try to take an interim and stabilize,” she said. “Set a vision before picking someone who is a dynamic person for that vision. … The face of hunger in the county is different than it was different than 30 years ago.”
I particularly liked this quote from Ms. Watt
“The house it’s in is 100 years old,” she said. “It’s held a much bigger volume [of supplies] than anyone ever dreamed. People like that it looks like a home because it’s welcoming.”
I probably walk by the century old house four or five times a week. It's easy to forget that architecture and materials and building features can have an effect -- a calming, reassuring effect in some cases--on people so thanks for the reminder. Happy retirement, Ms. Watt.
Here is a link to the nice piece on CALL Primrose's work:
Work from a small building on the outskirts of downtown Burlingame makes a big difference for those who need additional assistance making ends meet amidst the tough times brought on by the climbing cost of living locally.
For more than three decades, residents have been able to lean on the services offered by CALL Primrose, 139 Primrose Road, to take home free bags of groceries and additional products when money gets tight.
But as the affordability crisis worsens along the Peninsula, more residents than ever before have come to depend on the offerings available from the unassuming former home turned food distribution center, said Terri Boesch, the organization’s executive director.
About 40,000 pounds of food will be distributed out of the roughly 1,000-square-foot center this year to residents from San Bruno, Millbrae, Burlingame, San Mateo, Foster City, Hillsborough, Belmont and San Carlos, said Boesch, about double the amount served whe
- See more at: http://www.smdailyjournal.com/articles/lnews/2016-07-30/answering-the-call-for-help-burlingame-organization-offers-groceries-to-locals-battling-affordability-crisis/1776425165878.html#sthash.efMEki98.dpuf
Posted by: Joe | July 31, 2016 at 11:57 AM