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Serving up sustenance and smiles

Although it is called the St. Bernard Soup Kitchen, when people gather for lunch in the hall of St. Bernard Church in Rockland, they’ll more likely find themselves being served a meal of pork roast or chicken parmesan.

“We usually have really, really good meals. It’s amazing,” says Jeanie Gover, who has volunteered at the soup kitchen for about 17 years.

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“We’ll have beef or pork or chicken,” says Richard Norman, who began volunteering 16 years ago and has been the director for 13. “The cooks almost try to outdo each other in preparing food.”

Norman says it’s been that way since the soup kitchen opened in 1984.

“It’s been tried and true, and it works,” he says

Giving

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