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Countywide food drive through January 1601:29PM / Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Stockbridge, Mass. – A group of Berkshire residents will organize a food drive, beginning January 5 and running through January 16. The proceeds from the drive will go to four county food banks.
Donated food will be delivered to food pantries on or before Martin Luther King, Day, January 19. Boxes for donated food items will be placed in the following locations throughout the county:
Great Barrington: Mason Public Library; BRIDGE (195 Main St.); Berkshire Co-op Market; Berkshire Community Action Council, Community Services (8 Castle St.); Aberdales Market (Housatonic); Ramsdell Public Library (Housatonic).
Lenox: Clearwater Natural Foods; Lenox Library.
Lee: Clover Natural Foods; Lee Library.
Pittsfield: Ralph Froio Senior Center, North Street; Epoch Assisted Living at Melbourne, 140 Melbourne Rd.; Berkshire Athenaeum, Wendell Ave.; Berkshire Community Action Council, 1531 East Street, (Fuel Assistance Drop Box)
Williamstown: Williamstown Town Hall (in back if weekend or after hours); Wild Oats Community Market, (only January 14-19)
Stockbridge: Stockbridge Library, Heaton Court
North Adams: North Adams Public Library: BCAC (85 Main St., 4th Fl)
Arnoff’s Moving & Storage in Great Barrington donated the boxes for the drive.
The drive proceeds will be brought to the Salvation Army in Pittsfield, and the Berkshire Community Action Council food pantries in Gt. Barrington, Pittsfield, and North Adams.
Volunteers for Change first met in Stockbridge on Dec. 14. This gathering was one of 4,000 such meetings held that weekend to support President-Elect Barack Obama’s transition. Each group was asked to identify its national priority issues as well as to begin to address local issues of importance to them, and then to begin related community service activities. The Volunteers for Change group, comprised of people from Great Barrington, Lee, Stockbridge, Pittsfield and Lenox, chose to organize this food drive, and to have it culminate in delivery to food banks on or before Martin Luther King Day. A culminating event– to be announced – will be held on Martin Luther King Day in downtown Pittsfield. |
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