Supermarket Sweep 2012
Friday, December 21st, 2012by Tessa
Last year we blogged about the Supermarket Sweep, a fun holiday tradition spearheaded by Beau and Evan Burbidge that generates considerable donations to St. Anthony’s. Participants in the annual Supermarket Sweep split into teams for some competitive grocery shopping, with the goal of purchasing items that will amount to a specific, randomly assigned total price when rung up, somewhere in the ballpark of $100. The competition rewards savvy shoppers with mathematical minds, as calculators and smart phones are strictly prohibited.
This year’s Sweep had an amazing turnout and resulted in an exceptional donation of food goods as well as hygiene items for St. Anthony’s programs. The total donation filled up five totes (really, really big cardboard boxes) and was divvied up among St. Anthony’s Dining Room, the Father Alfred Center, the Social Work Center food pantry and Guest Services. “Everybody got a little bit of something” from the donation, said Dining Room Back of House Assistant Manager Dorothy Price, who coordinated the receiving and distribution of the donation. “It was gratifying to see that people had taken it upon themselves to do something of that magnitude for people they don’t know.”
Thanks 2012 Supermarket Sweepers from all of us at St. Anthony’s!
In photo: Participants get ready for the event.








If you were at Renegade Craft Fair this weekend, you surely got some of your coolest Christmas shopping taken care of. And you may have seen or contributed to Renegade attendee’s scarf collection for St. Anthony’s- beautiful greens and browns, soft whites and warm reds- lovingly knitted and packaged and ready to be distributed on Christmas to guests at St. Anthony’s. Thank you Renegade! Thank you Knitters!
Students from Mercy High School, an all-girls college-preparatory school in San Francisco, just brought a van full of donations from their most recent clothing drive.
We heard through
The Hoodie People had this to say about their 2nd annual Hoodie Drive, and the hoodies they donated to St. Anthony’s (thank you!):