Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen has unveiled its new home on Berger Drive in San Jose. It’s the first permanent home for the nonprofit that got its start 40 years ago with 10 volunteers serving meals of fish and bread at St. Patrick’s Church. It has gone from a simple soup kitchen to one of the leading providers of meals for the hungry in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties.
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John A. Sobrato and Susan Sobrato cut the ribbon on the new headquarters for Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen on Berger Road in San Jose. Behind the are board member Dan Barsanti, left, Loaves & Fishes Executive Director Gisela Bushey and San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo. (Sal Pizarro/Bay Area News Group)
“It’s hard for me to believe that I’ve been involved in Loaves & Fishes since the beginning,” board chair Dan Barsanti recalled at the