From New York-
For the second time in a month, a local soup kitchen has learned that critical funding from the state has been denied.
First, it was the Federation for the Homeless soup kitchen in Monticello. Now, the Guild of St. Margaret Soup Kitchen at Middletown's Grace Episcopal Church has been denied funding it's had for 15 years through the Hunger Prevention Nutrition Assistance Program. The money — $61,000 to $64,000 — makes up 45 percent of the nonprofit's annual budget.
If something doesn't happen to help the program said volunteer Alvin Hogencamp, "There'll be a lot of hungry people."
He knows hungry: A year ago, he came to St. Margaret's to eat. Now he volunteers to repay the kindness.
Program director Virginia Orgonista has sent letters to volunteers, the parish, politicians — hoping someone will have a route to new funding.
"We pretty much just start from scratch now, I guess," she said,
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Virginia Orgonista is to blame for the soup kitchen losing their funding. She travel from city to city using her Manifest My Love scheme to lure and solicit married men for her escort service. Her secret business was exposed and that is why the soup kitchen lost its funding. If Virginia Orgonista were not a lying scheming whore the soup kitchen would still be open.
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