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Cupboard bare,
food needed
PUTNAM — The cupboard is bare. Project Northeast has no food.
The non-profit, non-denominational food pantry usually helps people throughout the 10 towns in northeastern Connecticut, but not today. They need donated food in order to do that.
So from 8 a.m. to noon, Sept. 8 Putnam’s Boy Scout Troop 21 and Knights of Columbus Cargill Council 64 will be collecting non-perishable food and cash donations, at the council’s home at 64 Providence St.
Project Northeast’s pantry is in a small basement room at St. Mary Church of the Visitation on Providence Street, but the private social service agency serves anyone throughout northeastern Connecticut, regardless of their religion.
“We see lots of people who are out of work or sick,” said Project Northeast Director Rev. Richard L. Archambault. “Since the recession, we’ve seen many professional people who used to have good jobs but now have lost their houses and are in trouble. I call them ‘the middle class poor.’”
Checks are also being accepted. They may be mailed to: Project Northeast, 81 Church St., Putnam, CT 06260.
Donations of non-perishable food and money may also be left between now and Sept. 8 at the two locations of Joseph’s Jewelers, 153 School St. in Putnam and 158 Main St., Danielson.