\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Dr. John P. Ruffing VMD Pet Food Pantry is moving to a vacant lot in Pittsburgh’s Central North Side after being evicted from its previous space in a volunteer\u2019s home.Sue Kerr, the founder of the pantry, is thankful for the chance to continue serving the community despite financial hurdles.”We’re going to put temporary storage up, so we won’t miss a beat,” Kerr said.The pantry serves more than 300 people, and Kerr said they are working quickly to sort donations, prepare deliveries and move to the new site.”It’s roughly $250 a month in storage costs that we don’t have now because we use people’s homes,” Kerr said. “The bins — that’s going to be, like, $3,000. We have the actual moving costs to get all the food out and get it over there.”Looking for more news in your area | Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube ChannelDespite the added costs and struggles, Kerr emphasized her commitment to those who rely on the pantry. “We can’t just abandon those people, even though we were abandoned. But we’re not going to turn around and do that,” Kerr said. Kerr said they hope to have storage containers, shelves and cameras in place within the next few weeks, though the move will be costly.The pantry is looking for donations and volunteers. Click here for more information if you would like to help.Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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The Dr. John P. Ruffing VMD Pet Food Pantry is moving to a vacant lot in Pittsburgh’s Central North Side after being evicted from its previous space in a volunteer\u2019s home.<\/p>\n
Sue Kerr, the founder of the pantry, is thankful for the chance to continue serving the community despite financial hurdles.<\/p>\n
“We’re going to put temporary storage up, so we won’t miss a beat,” Kerr said.<\/p>\n
The pantry serves more than 300 people, and Kerr said they are working quickly to sort donations, prepare deliveries and move to the new site.<\/p>\n
“It’s roughly $250 a month in storage costs that we don’t have now because we use people’s homes,” Kerr said. “The bins — that’s going to be, like, $3,000. We have the actual moving costs to get all the food out and get it over there.”<\/p>\n
Looking for more news in your area | Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n Despite the added costs and struggles, Kerr emphasized her commitment to those who rely on the pantry. <\/p>\n “We can’t just abandon those people, even though we were abandoned. But we’re not going to turn around and do that,” Kerr said. <\/p>\n Kerr said they hope to have storage containers, shelves and cameras in place within the next few weeks, though the move will be costly.<\/p>\n The pantry is looking for donations and volunteers. Click here for more information<\/a> if you would like to help.<\/p>\n Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dr. John P. Ruffing VMD Pet Food Pantry is moving to a vacant lot in Pittsburgh’s Central…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6853,97168,15868,22110,2092,85990,5567,15878,523,44321,73,75,74,5608,97167,97166,37022,45361,2404],"class_list":["post-223566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-camera","tag-central-north-side","tag-donation","tag-eviction","tag-more-news","tag-new-home","tag-north-side","tag-pantry","tag-people","tag-pet-food-pantry","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-place","tag-shelf","tag-storage-cost","tag-struggle","tag-sue-kerr","tag-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}