Getting ready for Food Share - October and November
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
The banana boxes are ready to go for the Danielson Veterans Coffeehouse Food Share set to open at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 2.
Food Share organizer Bruce Hay said the banana boxes will be filled with different types of food for drive-through distribution at the Farmers Market Pavilion on Kennedy Drive. The Midwest Food Bank New England, out of Manchester, has already let Hay know it will be bringing a full truck. Connecticut Food Share will also be bringing a truck load Thursday. Hay will not know everything that is coming until the truck doors open.
He assesses what they have and a long line of volunteers including many veterans from the coffeehouse; get to work — production line style — loading food into banana boxes.
Some items he knows will be available this month are frozen foods (protein), canned foods, baby food, yogurt in pouches, dried blackberries, chips, pretzels, Cheez-its, iced tea. Windham Pepsi will again be donating different sodas, he said.
Hay said he’s already been contacted by the Hometown Foundation about Thanksgiving. While he’s not sure of the exact number of frozen turkeys, he believes there may be about 500 coming. He will be doing some driving in November to pick them up.
The Thanksgiving dinners will include the turkey, 5 pounds of potatoes (he hopes), cans of vegetables and Aldi’s stuffing and possibly more.
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One of many volunteers at last month's Food Share. Linda Lemmon photo.