WPCNR THE HUNGRY NEWS. May 15, 2006: Trucks, vans, SUVs arrived in twos and threes through the day Monday from 43 soup kitchens and food pantries throughout the county to pick up over 126,000 pounds of non-perishable food donated by the National Association of Letter Carriers at Memorial Methodist Church today. The drive has been sponsored for six years by the Westchester Coalition for the Hungry and Homeless (www.foodclothingshelter.org)
Rosa Boone, Executive Director of Westchester Coalition for the Hungry and Homeless, supervising pickup of food donations from Westchester County Lettercarriers Monday morning. Photo, WPCNR News.
The Food Tent at Memorial Methodist Church on Bryant. Vans from Shiloh Baptist Church of New Rochelle, Mount Lebanon Baptist Church Food Pantry of Peekskill, and Mt. Vernon New Life Fellowship Soup Kitchen wait to load up supplies. Food was collected by Westchester mailmen and delivered to the Food Tent Saturday and began to be distributed Monday morning. Photo by WPCNR News
