Write a commentThe Zonta Club of Oswego will return for the tenth year to provide the next Guest Chef Dinner on Tuesday, September 12, 4:30 to 6:00 p.m., or until the food runs out.
They will be serving roast beef with dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn, and tossed salad. Members of the Advisory Board and Zonta will provide assorted desserts and beverages. The dinner will be at the fully accessible Salvation Army Center for Worship & Service, 73 West Second Street, in Oswego. Masks are optional. Dinners may be eaten in our dining room or carried out.
Zonta International is a worldwide service organization working to improve the legal, political, economic, and professional status of women. The Oswego Club, founded in 1955, is celebrating its 68th anniversary. The group is well known for its annual Amelia Earhart Woman of Achievement Award. Additionally, it provides four scholarships, including the Jane M. Klausman Women in Business Scholarship and scholarships for non-traditional students and Young Women in Public Affairs. The members of the Oswego club perform many community-service projects such as Holiday Adopt-a-Family, Adopt-a-Highway, Oswego Hospital bazaar, and contributions to Human Concerns and The Salvation Army. Since 2013, they have provided a Guest Chef Dinner annually, serving 997 meals, and raising $9,755 for the work of The Salvation Army in Oswego County.
The Guest Chef Dinners have been held six times each year for the past sixteen years, except for 2020. Although early records are incomplete, 8,384 meals are known to have been served and more than $103,930 raised. The dinners are organized by the Salvation Army Corps Advisory Board and offered to the community to raise funds for fresh-cooked meals five days each week in both Fulton and Oswego, groceries from its food pantries, winter garments, and many other services to individuals and families in need throughout Oswego County. In July, the Corps provided 874 soup kitchen meals in Oswego and 548 in Fulton. It provided 76 Oswego households with groceries for 1,728 meals and 88 Fulton households with groceries for 2,043 meals. It also distributed over 690 loaves of bread and pastries.
The remaining Guest Chef Dinners this year will be by the Press Box on Tuesday, October 3, and Vona’s Restaurant on Tuesday, November 7.
Information about The Salvation Army or about serving as a volunteer is available at 315-343-6491 or at the office at 73 West Second Street, Oswego.
