It is always nice to be appreciated.  The last time our team went down to serve dinner at St. Vinny’s Bistro, there was a huge banner thanking us for our 12 years of service to the kitchen. I was shocked when I saw what they had done. Lorris Gibson, the head chef and kitchen manager, has told me many times and reiterated it again that night, “St. Vinny’s cannot feed the hundreds of homeless which it is called on each day without the help of generous volunteers. You just don’t realize how important your food shipments are to what we do down here.”  I am, of course, just the front man for our teams of volunteers who come to serve the meals and, most of all, our financial donors who make it possible to buy the food we deliver every other Wednesday for the past 12 years.  You are the ones who ensures no one goes hungry on the streets of San Antonio.  On behalf of the homeless, we thank YOU.