See below for information about scheduled closures for St. Vincent de Paul in Portland during the 2025 holiday season. Thrift Store closures: (17108 SE Powell Blvd., Portland) Thur., Dec. 25 Thur., Nov. 27 Council Office closures: (8101 SE Cornwell St., Portland) Thur., Jan. 1 Thur., Dec. 25 Wed., Dec. 24 (half day, closes at noon) Fri., Nov. 28 Thur., Nov. 27 The Thrift Store will operate with a regular schedule on all days when it is not closed. Phone lines for food, rent

A torrent of orders has forced the early closure of our 2025 Thanksgiving food box line. This year we set a new record, meeting the maximum number of requests we could handle in less than three days' time. After opening Oct. 28, our small cadre of call takers took more than 360 orders in less than 16 hours. The call takers' rate of orders taken, on a daily basis, was 123 per day. The prior record was 80.2 per day, set in 2024. The record before that was 64.7 per day in 2019.

Do you need a little help this Thanksgiving season? We have a limited supply of Thanksgiving food boxes available to order for pick-up in...