Local Food Share is on the map
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
Over the years, the Danielson Veterans Coffeehouse has quietly been feeding thousands in the Quiet Corner.
Not so quiet anymore.
Bruce Hay, the Food Share leader, said the effort is drawing attention. The list of visitors for the Food Share coming up Thursday, May 7, is impressive.
Megan Sullivan from the Hometown Foundation is coming to see the operation. The foundation donates turkeys to the Food Share every November.
In addition, the Brooklyn Walmart is coming to see how they can help and is bringing volunteers. And some representatives from the Webster-Dudley Food Share are also coming to see a fine example of what they can do.
In addition to the Brooklyn Walmart volunteers, student Emerson Jollay is coming to volunteer and is bringing some volunteers with her.
They will all be joining the seasoned crew of volunteers — mostly veterans.
Hay said he and coffeehouse President Fred Ruhlemann last week collected a donation from the Webster Lions.
Right along, other food share groups have checked in with the local Food Share for guidance and advice.
This week’s Food Share, according to Hay, will offer cereal from TEEG’s recent cereal collection and cereal from Midwest Food Bank New England, baby food, mac and cheese, vitamin water, Celsius drinks, iced tea, Powerade, granola bars, dried beans, witch hazel, candy, popcorn, chips and snacks, miscellaneous cans. They will also have two pallets of soda from Windham Pepsi.
Trucks come early, one from Connecticut Food Share and one from Midwest with the rest of the food. Hay never knows what is on the trucks. He assesses the food as it’s taken off the trucks and puts his crew to work with military precision, filling bags and boxes. He expects that there will be some frozen food on one of the trucks Thursday.
The line is opened for the drive-through Food Share at 9:30 at the Farmers Market Pavilion on Kennedy Drive.
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