New Home For Food Pantry

New Home For Food Pantry After years of contending with cramped quarters, the Des Plaines Self-Help Closet and Food Pantry finally has enough space. Now it just needs more contributions and more volunteers. The Self-Help Closet and Food Pantry, which has operated in Des Plaines for nearly 17 years, recently moved from the base- ment of First Congregational Church, 766 Graceland Ave., to the old West School building on Thacker Street. “WTe have about three times as much space as we did before,” said Jane Horn, a worker at the pantry. “It was getting terribly cramped at the church; we have grown over the years and we just couldn’t move around anymore, and they had no more room to give us.” Now, she said, there is ade- quate space to sort, pack and (Continued on page 14)______