Plenty of food available at Food Share
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
When the line opens up Thursday, April 2, the Danielson Veterans Coffeehouse Food Share anticipates having more than 35,000 pounds of food available.
Food Share organizer Bruce Hay the group already has 10,000 pounds of food on hand and anticipates hitting the 35,000 mark after Midwest Food Bank New England and Connecticut Foodshare drop off food before the Food Share early that morning.
Hay does not know what will be on the trucks. He assesses the items when they come off the truck, figures out a plan and then puts his team of volunteers to work loading the food into boxes or onto tables for distribution.
By the time the drive-thru Food Share opens at 9:30 a.m. the teams of volunteers stand ready to load cars. Cars make a hairpin turn around the Farmers Market Pavilion to hit all the “stations.”
This month Hay said they will have Table Talk pies, 300 boxes of cereal from TEEG’s cereal collection, chips, snacks, three pallets of soda from Windham Distributors (so everyone will get a 12-pack of soda), canned goods, candy, frozen food, some dried beans, some pasta and more. He added that this week Midwest will be bringing linens.
In addition, he said, Staples distribution center contributed its canned goods and pasta collection. He said they will also volunteer at the Food Share. If any food remains it goes to the Putnam Lodge of Elks for its food share on Saturday and Sister Jeannine in Thompson and sometimes Brooklyn Cares Community Center.
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