Soft Footprint, Big Impact! By Mike McQuillan

Daughter Katy twenty-five years ago in Pre-K declared with the enthusiasm of a four-year old whose every word shares wonder that on a field trip “they took us to CHiPS!”

Like Lewis and Clark who in 1804 at President Jefferson’s behest explored past the new nation’s frontier, Katy’s class ventured five blocks west, from P.S. 372, The Children’s School on Brooklyn’s Carroll Street to a nondescript storefront where inside magic ensued as volunteers. then as now, prepared hot, nutritious, free meals for 300 people who each day count on their service. “CHiPS” (Community Help in Park Slope), has fed the hungry and housed homeless mothers with infants in its shelter upstairs since 1971. How often I’d passed by unknowing!

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