COURTESY OF UNITED PARISH IN BROOKLINE
The United Parish in Brookline, 210 Harvard St., recently announced a new ministry partnership with the Brookline Food Pantry.
Starting Aug. 1, United Parish will serve as the central location for the food pantry. For 37 years, the Brookline Food Pantry has been a mainstay of alleviating food insecurity in Brookline. It began as a ministry of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and became its own nonprofit in 2014. Volunteers come from all over Brookline. Need has expanded steadily over the years, leading to secondary locations in affordable housing complexes on Egmont and High Streets. In 2018, directed by the inspiration of Kim Kushner, BFP developed the Brookline Thrives program which provides weekend backpacks of meals for Brookline students who need the additional food. Nearly 550 students participate in this program.
Brookline Rotary has been distributing new children’s books to children in kindergarten through fourth grade thanks to a grant from the Chobee Hoy Group at Compass.
Susie Davidson / brookline@wickedlocal.com
For Edward Boches, the pandemic was an unlikely catalyst. I think I kicked into high gear from the lockdown and beyond, he said from his Brookline home near the Allston line.
He had been a full-time professor at Boston University for the past 10 years. I taught creative courses in the advertising program in the College of Communication: Creative Concepts, and Portfolio Development, he explained. I helped prepare students for careers as creatives designers, art directors, writers, filmmakers. It was a second career for Boches, who for 33 years was a partner and creative director at Mullen (now Mullen-Lowe), Boston s largest ad agency.