Garden City Resident Named Chairwoman for NSSK/NOSH

Garden City’s Christine Rice Named Chairwoman

North Shore Soup Kitchen/NOSH

The board of North Shore Soup Kitchen (NSSK) and NOSH, a program of NSSK, has elected Christine Rice to lead the organization. Madeline Rubenstein, chair for the past four years stated: “Christine Rice is the perfect person to lead the next chapter in this organization’s long 32-year life. I can only imagine the wonderful things the organization will accomplish under Christine’s capable guidance.” The NSSK/NOSH board also announced that eight additional board members have been elected to office.

NSSK/NOSH’s New Chairwoman

Christine Rice grew up with her nine siblings in Garden City and continues to reside in that community. She brings to her new role at NSSK a wealth of personal and professional experience which includes having been primary caretaker for her mother, who had been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease, and her father, who died in 2013. She went on to serve the Long Island Alzheimer’s and Dementia Center as director of special events and community outreach. In 2019, Rice was named executive director of the Glen Cove Senior Center. The mother of two adult children, Rice received a bachelor’s degree from Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. and a master’s degree from Adelphi University in Garden City.

About North Shore Soup Kitchen and NOSH

The North Shore Soup Kitchen (NSSK) is a not-for-profit, volunteer-based organization established in 1989 to feed hungry people in the Glen Cove area. Located in the First Baptist Church on Continental Place in Glen Cove, the North Shore Soup Kitchen is staffed by a group of more than 100 volunteers. These volunteers cook, serve and clean up after meals. They also work behind the scenes ordering supplies, writing the newsletter, sorting and distributing donated clothing, fundraising and keeping the books and raising funds. NSSK had to discontinue its three-times-per-week in-person meal service due to the pandemic; NSSK expects to resume by fall 2021.

In March 2021, NOSH, an emergency free food delivery service, was organized to help meet greater food assistance needs that arose during the pandemic. Now an official program of the North Shore Soup Kitchen, NOSH is a not-for-profit organization staffed by volunteers who deliver weekly NOSHBags, the groceries needed to prepare two meals for a family of four; additional NOSHBags are provided to larger families. These weekly deliveries are to homes in Bayville, Glen Cove, Roslyn, Locust Valley and Sea Cliff. Additionally, NOSHBags are available to those who come to the VFW Hall on a walk-in basis. The food distributed by NOSH is donated by Long Island charities and local businesses. Approximately 500 families are served each week.

For further information on NSSK or NOSH or to support their work with a donation, visit www.northshoresoupkitchen.org.

Photo Caption:

Christine Rice has been named chairwoman of the North Shore Soup Kitchen/NOSH.

(photo supplied by Ms. Rice)

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Media Contact:

Doris Meadows, dorismeadows@gmail.com, (516) 609-9696

Public Information:

NSSK/NOSH, www.northshoresoupkitchen.org, (516) 366-0277