Jay Martin wended his way among boxes of new shoes, racks of children's coats, and thousands of pounds of food in boxes, refrigerators and freezers at Joshua's Storehouse.
Officials with Casper-based Joshua's Storehouse say work is nearly complete on the community food pantry's downtown warehouse expansion. “We’re expanding on the back of our building right now – we’re about three-quarters done with the construction…
A Casper-based need organization spent most of its Wednesday trying to figure out how to give thousands of new shoes to Wyoming school children. Joshua's Storehouse chief executive officer Jay Martin says his organization received 27,000 pairs of shoes from the California-based shoe company Sket…
A Casper-based food security organization is hoping to begin construction on a 7,000-square-foot building expansion within the next few weeks. Joshua’s Storehouse CEO Jay Martin says shovels should be in the ground by March. “Our new building expansion is going to allow us to put…
City councilors on Tuesday agreed to partially bankroll two capital projects that are being undertaken by Casper-based anti-hunger organizations. Council approved over $274,800 for Joshua’s Storehouse that officials say will be put toward a forthcoming $350,000 expansion of the organi…
Casper City Council is scheduled to vote on a pair of agreements that, in tandem, would pay out roughly $380,000 to a pair of local food security organizations. Councilors are looking to authorize food delivery service agreements with Casper-based Joshua’s Storehouse and Wyoming Food …
Casper City Council agreed to help fund four city-based non-profit capital projects with remaining one-cent funds during its Tuesday meeting. Council entered the work session tasked with dividing $727,000 in excess one-cent funds among nine agencies that were requesting a total of $1...
City councilors in Casper say they will continue evaluating the overall economic landscape before distributing optional one-cent funds to Joshua’s Storehouse and the Mercer Family Resource Center. During a recent budget session, council tabled a $270,000 funding request from Joshua&Cl…