Warming House logo Photo Courtesy of Warming House website BY: BROOKE JOHNPIER, STAFF WRITER The Warming House, founded in 1974, recently received a $4,000 grant from the Dr. Lyle F. Renodin Foundation. The soup kitchen located in Olean, New York is currently the longest-running student-run kitchen in the country. The Renodin Foundation provides grants for…
BY CASSIDEY KAVATHAS, NEWS EDITOR After surviving the pandemic offering only take out meals, the Warming House has opened their dining hall again for eat in meals exactly 16 months since they closed. This year, volunteers face the challenge of preparing take out meals as well as eat in meals. “Our guests are now able…
Thanks to a $2,500 grant received through the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation last spring, St. Bonaventure University’s Warming House has started providing cooking and nutrition classes for its visitors. The classes began on Sept. 21 and will continue once a month during October, November, February, March and April. Warming House guests can register for classes…
This September, the Warming House, St. Bonaventure University’s student-run soup kitchen, received an increase in its annual grant from the Dr. Lyle F. Renodin Foundation, Inc. Jeffrey Sved, director of the Franciscan Center for Social Concern, said this grant is essential for the Warming House to remain open and provide meals for the hungry, homeless…
St. Bonaventure University will host Spring into Love, a women’s retreat, this Friday at St. Elizabeth’s Motherhouse in Allegany. About ten female students, faculty and staff members will travel to the Motherhouse at 115 E. Main St. to reflect spiritually and discuss what it means to love. “Throughout this retreat, we are going to be…
By Alexis Young Staff Writer Want to ‘turnip the beet’ with a summer filled with community service and personal growth? Farm to Table happens to be serving quite the dish. “When students are taking finals, there is still a need in our community, when students are on break there’s still a need in the community,”…
By Vanessa Hulse Staff Writer The Olean Food Pantry, supplied by the Food Bank of Western New York, is the main location in Olean that members of the community who are in need can go to get food for the month. Unlike the Warming House, the Olean Food Pantry supplies food for those who have…
By Vanessa Hulse Staff Writer The Warming House is a well-known facility in Olean, NY that provides food for any member in the community that would like to join. The Warming House provides a meal every day at dinner time throughout the entire year; this means it serves 300 days out of every year. On…
By Vanessa Hulse Staff Writer In a continuation of a series of interviews involving the Warming House staff, Jordan Garrett, a senior management major, discussed some of his experiences working as both a coordinator and as a part of the Farm to Table community. Some of his responses were similar to those of other coordinators…
By Amber Levias Contributing Writer There’s a new club on campus that’s capturing the eyes of students this semester- photography club. Created by avid photographers, Deeanna Welling and Charles Walker, PhD., professor of psychology, the club was formed to help interested students learn to hone their photography talents as well as to give back to…
Shannon Murray, a senior biology major, also acts as a coordinator for the Warming House in Olean. With this, she gets the privilege of interacting with the guests who come into the Warming House. Murray talked about how this experience has shaped her view of poverty and people who live in what could be considered…
This editorial represents the opinion of the Bona Venture staff With winter and cold weather quickly approaching, it’s the time of the year when people should be truly thankful if they have a warm home for the holidays. When the wind begins to pick up and the snow begins to fall, there’s nothing quite like…
By Annie Riley Assistant News Editor St. Bonaventure University Ministries named Margaret Morris, ’05, the new program manager of the Warming House and Bona Buddies. The Warming House is known as one of the oldest student-run soup kitchens in the nation and Bona Buddies is a mentoring program where one-on-one relationships are created between local…