Gem State Roundup

St. Vincent de Paul invites Treasure Valley residents to tour new administrative office

By: Christina Lords - April 29, 2021 4:00 am

A mobile food pantry will be on-site at a St. Vincent de Paul open house on April 30. (Courtesy of April Neale)

In celebration of Idaho Gives, St. Vincent de Paul invites Treasure Valley residents to tour the charity’s new administrative office and learn more about its work in southwest Idaho.

At the open houses, residents can meet St. Vincent de Paul’s team, which works to prevent homelessness and connect people who are homeless with programming and resources.

The two open houses will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 30 and May 3 at 5256 W. Fairview Ave. in the Fairview Square Mall.

St. Vincent de Paul’s mobile pantry will be on-site from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday. Organizers will hand out pre-assembled boxes of food for anyone who needs grocery assistance. The Friday event will also feature live music and raffle giveaways and gift baskets with items from Boise-based Janjou Patisserie, as well as NBC, Lifetime Network and Discovery television channels.

Organizers ask that attendees wear face masks.

For information about the event or St. Vincent de Paul’s services, go to svdpid.org.

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Christina Lords

Christina Lords is the editor-in-chief of the Idaho Capital Sun and has been a professional journalist covering local and state government since graduating from the University of Idaho in 2009. A Pocatello native, Lords is a fifth-generation Idahoan who served as a reporter at the Moscow-Pullman Daily News and the Post Register in Idaho Falls and served as assistant editor for the Idaho Press in Nampa. She also led the Idaho Statesman in Boise for two years before turning to nonprofit journalism.