Dear fellow Hanoverians:
Another grateful update from the Food Pantry!
“The Hanover Emergency Food Pantry would like to thank every individual,
group, organization, club, school, scout, church and business for
supporting the pantry this past year. We would be lost without them.
In 2015, we never experienced “bare shelves” as we have in the past. Summer
is slow but the postal workers food drive in May helped carry us into our
leanest season. We had a large number of volunteers, many of them students
and scouts, to help with this project. The schools have done an amazing job
with their food drives. All the churches in town have kept us going
throughout the year with weekly contributions. We have drop boxes at the
library, Shaw’s and the Norwell Stop and Shop and we thank them for their
continued support. Private citizens have made very generous contributions
regularly. Many people buy gift cards to Shaw’s and Stop and Shop as we
give our clients a card monthly. (The cards are a great help.) This past
year we had small children give to the pantry in lieu of birthday gifts for
themselves. We had other children run private neighborhood food drives.
Some ran lemonade stands where a food item was the cost of the cool summer
drink. How creative! Parents have supported us by requesting pantry
contributions in lieu baptism gift for newborns. Girl Scouts have run theme
collections and donated their cookies. Businesses have run food drives in
their stores. Some businesses have donated a matching corporate
contribution (the gift that keeps giving). All wonderful gifts.
Looking back over the past year and seeing all the hard work and dedication
of our volunteers, it is a staggering amount of hours! What a fantastic and
dedicated group of people we have working at the pantry. I, for one, am so
thankful for each and every one of them. I could not express how deeply I
appreciate each of them as a group and individually. I am honored to be
working with all our volunteers.
The pantry and volunteers wish the Town of Hanover the best holiday season
and the happiest of New Years ever. Thank you again for the generosity that
keeps us going.”
Sincerely,
Sally Lovett Boutin
Pantry President
781-826-6485
kidsense@comcast.net
For “Around Town on the Web”,
Cathy H-B
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