Pennies for Poverty: 2 Cents 4 Change, Inc. had a three-day food drive this past weekend at Shaw’s. More than $4,305 worth of food was collected for the five food pantries that serve Newburyport residents: Salvation Army, Community Service here in Newburyport, Our Neighbor’s Table, Community Action in Amesbury and Pettengill House in Salisbury.
Shaw’s put together $10 and $5 bags for people to simply pick up and pay for at the check out. Other people took the lists of needed items and spent the extra time shopping and donating so generously. In addition, $1,486.26 was donated to the 2 Cent Grants! One hundred percent of the money raised for the 2 Cent Grant Fund goes out in the form of grants to individuals or organizations that have new ideas that lift people in Newburyport out of poverty or for necessary services which are under funded due to the current economic crisis. Thank you to the “AJH Angel”, a nurse who donated two grocery carts of food. and to all who gave so generously!
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I seem to recall the Daily News used to have a holiday food drive every year.Wonder why they stopped?
Hmm, I could be wrong, but I don't remember that. The Daily News typically does the Salvation Army campaign around the holidays and used to (and perhaps still does) volunteer as staff @ the Yankee Homecoming Road Race.
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