Well, I received some positive preliminary reports from the weekend's PENNIES FOR POVERTY: 2 CENTS 4 CHANGE food drive. I'm sure we'll get some specific numbers in due time, but by Saturday afternoon the three-day campaign proved quite fruitful.
So kudos to the group for putting the effort together and a big thank you to Shaw's for making the process so simple. The store actually pays an employee to gather and bundle all the food in paper bags marked at $5 and $10, and the employees labels the content of the bags (baby food, veggies, etc.) Thanks also to anyone who grabbed a bag of food from my table near the cash registers on Saturday afternoon.
All and all, the food drive was a great effort and a nice, non-partisan way to at least partially alleviate an unfortunately growing problem.
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