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By Faith Lutheran Church
11/19/2009
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Faith Lutheran Church in New Providence, Boy Scout and Cub Scout Troops of New Providence and Berkeley Heights and the Community Service Association of New Providence are again teaming up to conduct a fall food drive for needy families.
On Saturday, November 14 and Sunday, November 15, cub and boy scouts distributed paper bags and flyers requesting canned and packed foods to 5,000 homes in New Providence and Berkeley Heights. On Saturday, November 21, the scouts will return to the homes to pick up the bags and then deliver the food-filled bags to Faith Lutheran Church.
If members of the community, who do not receive a bag, wish to bring food directly to Faith Lutheran, they may do so on any day through Friday, November 20. The address of Faith Lutheran is 524 South Street, New Providence.
Throughout November 21, volunteers from Faith Lutheran, the Community Service Association, and other community groups will sort and pack the food into boxes for needy families. Based on the experience of past years, food valued at $35,000 will fill about 650 boxes. On Saturday, November 28, volunteers from Faith Lutheran will deliver the large majority of the boxes to StarFish Pantry, a combined Jewish/Christian organization in Plainfield.
StarFish Pantry provides emergency aid to about 9,000 people in Greater Plainfield, two-thirds of whom are children. As the resources of the Pantry are almost depleted, the new food will likely meet the needs of the Pantry throughout the winter and early spring.
Boxes of food will also be distributed to needy residents of New Providence and Berkeley Heights by the New Providence Community Service Association. These boxes will include pumpkin pies, baked by the home economics classes of New Providence High School. For the ninth consecutive year, the coordinator of the Fall Food Drive is Cheryl Bock of Faith Lutheran Church and New Providence. For more information, call the Faith Lutheran office at 908-464-5177.
Photo above: Kevin and his father, Brian, of New Providence, packed boxes together at the 2008 fall food collection at Faith Lutheran Church
Photo courtesy of Larry Holt
From left, Eric Lange of Berkeley Heights, Donna Wlodarski of Springfield, Diana Bjorge of Berkeley Heights, Ed Johnson of New Providence, Joe Gottfrid of Basking Ridge sort cans, jars and boxes at the fall food collection at Faith Lutheran Church.
Photo courtesy of Larry Holt
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