Soup Kitchen Begins Serving at New Home
Someone Cares Soup Kitchen has moved again, but this time it has a permanent home.
The charity recently began serving hot meals at 720 19th St. in Costa Mesa in a former Chinese restaurant.
Merle Hatleberg, director of Someone Cares, said she is relieved she finally raised enough money to buy a building. She won’t have to face another eviction.
“We have weathered it, and our new home is just wonderful,” she said.
The soup kitchen was asked to leave the First United Methodist Church in 1996, where it served the homeless for 10 years. From there, it moved to the Seventh-day Adventist church in west Costa Mesa.
Hatleberg said that most of the money to buy the building was raised during the soup kitchen’s last four annual fund-raising events.
“We have saved for four years, and it’s so wonderful,” she said.
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