Yearly Archives: 2019

Angelus News features Circle V Ranch Camp

Read how faith and first responders saved trapped kids at camp in the Whittier Fire in this article Written by R.W. Dellinger in Angelus News. With all the wildfire conflagrations that have burned across California over the past two years, many of the stories of heroism and danger that came with them have been overlooked…

Tzu Chi Mobile Vision Unit at SVdPLA

The Tzu Chi Foundation’s Mobile Vision Unit paid a visit to St. Vincent de Paul to offer the community free eye care and prescription glasses on March 6, 2019. Despite the rain, clients were able to be screened comfortably in our LA thrift store before seeing the optometrist in the foundation’s mobile vision unit parked…

Alfonso Topete Retires after 50 Years

Alfonso worked for the Los Angeles St. Vincent de Paul store ever since it moved from Chinatown to Lincoln Heights in 1969, and since he immigrated to the US from Mexico.  He remembers when the store was housed in the yellow, former factory building next door at 200 North San Fernando Road, now upscale condos.…

Kingsley Manor Serves CMC

Kingsley Manor volunteers served a delicious lunch to the homeless at the CMC, our Skid Row homeless shelter, this past Thursday, February 28, 2019. One man who was served even stood up from his seat and addressed the group of volunteers saying, “This beef stew was the best thing I’ve eaten in a really long time.…

St. Elizabeth Serves the CMC

St. Elizabeth of Hungary Conference of Charity in Pasadena served dinner to the homeless men of the Cardinal Manning Center on Skid Row last week.