Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Volunteers from 12 groups, primarily from Westborough, supported Sunday's event.
There are 46,002 macaroni and cheese meals ready to go to Worcester County families. Several dozen volunteers packaged the meals over four hours Sunday at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. The groups partnered with Kids Care, Outreach Inc.’s food packaging division. Outreach Inc.-Kids Care Regional Manager Matthew Martin said Monday night it was the seventh-largest event he has done, of 134. Besides Good Shepherd and Holliston's Christ the King Lutheran Church, the event was to include volunteers from Chapel of the Cross in Westborough; Congregation B’nai Shalom in Westborough; the Congregational Church of Westborough; the First United Methodist Church in Westborough; St. Luke’s Roman Catholic Church in Westborough; St. Stephen’s …
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Volunteers from 12 groups, primarily from Westborough, are involved.
“Just in this county, there’s 86,000 hungry folks,” Matt Martin says, and “30,000 of them are children.” In two weeks, volunteers from 12 groups, primarily from Westborough, will package 41,800 macaroni and cheese meals together toward helping fight hunger in Worcester County. Westborough’s Good Shepherd Lutheran Church will host the event, from 1 to 5 p.m. Feb. 9. The groups are partnering with Kids Care, Outreach Inc.’s food packaging division. The Rev. Jeffrey Goodrich, Good Shepherd’s associate pastor, says he’s finalizing the meals’ destination, but “hoping they’ll go to the Worcester County Food Bank.” Martin, Outreach’s regional manager of New England, says that “until about two or three years ago, all the meals went overseas like…
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
The Armstrong Elementary School's 'Change X Hunger' program ended Monday.
Monday, 16,224 meals were prepared in the Armstrong Elementary School cafeteria. The meals weren't served there. Instead, one-third were delivered to the in Worcester; one-third were delivered to the Friendly House in Worcester; and one-third were delivered to the Worcester Food Bank, parent Claudia Ramirez, said. Monday's packaging event marked the end of the Armstrong school's Change X Hunger fundraiser, which started in the fall. The program raised $4,005 in donations – exceeding its $2,500 goal. Armstrong is partnering with Outreach Inc. – Kids Care on the project. Volunteers worked for three hours Monday, starting at 9:30 a.m. By 10:25 a.m., dozens of Westborough students and parents had packed 2,500 meals, said Heidi Martin, whose …
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Students and parents will package meals on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
This fall, Armstrong Elementary School set out to package 10,000 meals on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, toward fighting hunger in Worcester County. Next Monday, students and parents will package more than 16,000 meals – enough to feed 2,670 families of six people. Armstrong’s Change X Hunger program raised $4,005 in donations – exceeding its $2,500 goal to help the Worcester County Food Bank, parent Claudia Ramirez said Monday. Armstrong is partnering with Outreach Inc. – Kids Care on the project. Thermo Fisher Scientific was the largest donor, providing a $1,700 grant toward buying the meals, which cost 25 cents each, she said. Parents and students contributed the rest, she said. “That’s mostly due to Claudia’s tenacity in terms of …
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Friday, October 26, 2012
'Change 4 Hunger' culminates in packaging meals on Jan. 21.
Lemonade stands at some Westborough school events this fall have symbolized a need in Worcester County. “When 19 percent of Worcester County is undernourished, that’s a staggering number,” Armstrong Elementary School Principal John Mendes said Wednesday. “And then 11 percent are children.” Armstrong students and parents are trying to raise $2,500 to package 10,000 meals, each 25 cents, for Worcester County food banks. Students and community members will package the meals in the school cafeteria on Jan. 21, which is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Armstrong is partnering with Outreach Inc. on the project. As of Wednesday, the school’s “Change 4 Hunger” program had raised $600 through donations and events such as lemonade stands at …
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Paul Temple
12:33 pm on Tuesday, January 22, 2013
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