Take me out to the BALLGAME!!!
Las Cruces Vaqueros Baseball Players help out at the soup kitchen. What a treat to have some of the local team players volunteer and help us prepare and serve the Friday meal. Even our clients were impressed, several children got to say hi to the players while they were working.
Working with a smile, made the chopping of tomatoes a fun task.
Wacey Sorenson and Erin seem to be enjoying their time in the kitchen.
From salad to main dish and now to the vegetables, the Las Cruces Vaqueros Baseball players have all the bases covered. Lunch will indeed be good.
The team is ready to serve. Our clients are in for a treat.
Now that Las Cruces Vaqueros Baseball players have helped us…you need to help them and attend one of their season games. All games are being played at Apodoca Park in Las Cruces. Check out the schedule below for the games over this holiday weekend.
| (1820) 5/25/2012-7:00:00 PM Apodoca Park |
 Roswell Invaders 14 |
@ | -  Las Cruces Vaqueros 15 |
| (1821) 5/26/2012-7:00:00 PM Apodoca Park |
Roswell Invaders 0 |
@ | - Las Cruces Vaqueros 0 |
| (1822) 5/27/2012-7:00:00 PM Apodoca Park |
Roswell Invaders 0 |
@ | - Las Cruces Vaqueros 0 |
| (1994) 5/28/2012-7:00:00 PM Apodoca Park |
Roswell Invaders 0 |
@ | - Las Cruces Vaqueros 0 |
| (1996) 5/30/2012-7:00:00 PM Apodoca Park |
 New Mexico School of Baseball 0 |
@ | - Las Cruces Vaqueros 0
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Want to be a Volunteer???
El Caldito Soup Kitchen depends on our volunteers. We have over 100 people helping us each year. Some people come once a week, every week, all year-long. Other people come once or twice a month. We have only 3 part-time employees: our office manager, our security guard and our custodian. The collection of food (GLEANING), ordering of goods, preparation of food, serving of food, storing of food, and clean up of our kitchen is all accomplished by our volunteers.
We welcome new volunteers, however, we appreciate you emailing us at elcaldito@yahoo.com or calling 575 525-8704 to inquire about volunteering. It is difficult for us to take a large group of people at one time. We will work with groups interested in volunteering to make their experience a pleasant one.
Volunteer Requirements
Age of Volunteers: Volunteers under the age of 15 years cannot work in the kitchen. Younger volunteers with a responsible adult at their immediate side may perform non-cooking and non-food tasks only.
Attire: Kitchen volunteers wear clean clothes and closed-toe shoes. Shoulders and midriff are covered and pants or jeans are worn around the waist. Longer shorts are acceptable.
Hair is covered, using a hairnet, baseball cap, bandana, or other head covering, and long hair is tied back.
An apron is worn in the kitchen and disposable gloves are worn when handling food. Gloves are changed between tasks.
Routine: The kitchen manager or an experienced volunteer will give a brief orientation to the kitchen, pointing out where to find things.
Volunteers sign “in and out” in the book provided to indicate the number of hours worked each day.
HANDS are to be WASHED often and before beginning each new task.
Thank you for your time!
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GREEKS GALORE
New Mexico State University Greeks 800+ volunteer on Friday April 20th throughout the city of Las Cruces. El Caldito Soup Kitchen appreciated having the extra pairs of hands helping us in the kitchen. Students came for one hour shifts between going to their university classes. We had over 30 assistants helping with food preparation, food processing, serving clients, washing tables, drying dishes and doing general clean-up jobs.
Drying dishes is a necessary job when you serve 300 clients.
Keep peeling those onions please!
We get bags of onions donated and when we can’t use them all… we peel, chop and bag them for the freezer. It isn’t an easy job and believe me it stings your eyes. Thank you GUYS for doing this job, us regulars in the kitchen appreciate not having to process all the onions ourselves.
Our bread cutters working with a smile.
Bread is another item donated regularly to the kitchen. Not just bagged bread, but fresh bakery bread comes daily. We use it in our savory bread pudding recipe, we slice it for sandwiches and we make freshly toasted croutons for our salads.
El Caldito Soup Kitchen, Friday Team thanks the GREEKS for all their help!!!!
STRONG…Singles Together Reaching Out to the Next Generation!
Strong…Singles Together Reaching out to the Next Generation
This is an out reach ministry of the White Sands Missile Range Post Chapel. This ministry consists of having all military and civilian personnel volunteer in the community to help those in need. El Caldito Soup Kitchen thanks you for helping us again.
Getting tomatoes ready to blanch!
We appreciate all of the people who helped us prepare our Friday lunch on April 13, 2012.
White Sands Missile Range sends us wonderful volunteers!!!
Getting to Know our Volunteers!!!
April 5th Donna Wood filled in for Yolanda Dimas our office manager who was on vacation. It was a fun day and I enjoyed meeting the people from Mission Lutheran Church. Many of our board members come in on different days and open the kitchen for different crews of volunteers. The day went well and we fed many people.
Desserts need to be cut each day.
Bev worked all morning cutting cakes and pies . We are fortunate to have businesses donate a variety of desserts everyday.
Raul checks the ovens to be sure everything will be cooked on time.
It takes plenty of planning to have enough casseroles, side dishes, sandwiches and salads ready to serve at 11:30 AM. All our volunteers have been successful at this task.
Our servers are ready for the doors to open.
Our clients are welcomed by friendly, smiling volunteers everyday.
El Caldito is a local non-profit in Las Cruces, NM. Check us out on Facebook. www.facebook.com/elcalditosoupkitchen. Remember to like our page.
CURVES for Women a local business… Helps out!!!
Thank you for food and your monetary contributions.
L-R Gabe Chavez (President of El Caldito), Martha Loustaunau, Pat Hoffman and Kristen Turner (Curves for Women Staff)
Curves for Women, 3291 Del Rey Boulevard in Las Cruces, New Mexico generously donated canned goods and checks to support El Caldito Soup Kitchen. This contribution has come at a very good time. Today our numbers were up at noontime. The kitchen volunteers prepared enough food to serve 385 clients. This number is way above what we normally serve at lunch time. We are grateful to Curves for Women and their clients who donated to us this year. THANK YOU!!!!
El Caldito Soup Kitchen, a local non-profit accepts all monetary donations and donations of food. Without you we would be struggling to support our local population of people in need of a meal in Dona Ana County, New Mexico.
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More Military Volunteers!!!
AIR FORCE OPERATIONS SQUADRON from White Sands joined us March 30th. What a nice group of men, who jumped right in doing KP Duty. Several peeled potatoes, carrots, cleaned and washed mushrooms. Gabe Anaya supervised two people making the soup. We can’t thank you enough for helping us on Friday.
Dan Schempp and Anthony Surman prepare the soup.
Mr. Anaya do you think you need to demonstrate the art of potato peeling????
Alan Meris chops green onions after washing the lettuce for the salad. We love your smile. It is as infectious as “Whistling while you work”.
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