DENVER — Joy’s Kitchen operated as one of the few food pantries serving suburban Lakewood for more than a decade, until Westwoods Community Church forced the free grocery operation to vacate over the summer.
After a frantic search, Joy’s Kitchen found a new home in Denver’s Lincoln Park neighborhood near downtown, joining the ranks of at least eight food pantries and meal lines within a one-mile radius.
Kathleen Stanley, founder and director of Joy’s Kitchen, worried the organization wouldn’t have the same impact on the community in an area already dense with food services…