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Woodbridge News
November 22, 2004
True Holiday Spirit = Gifts to Your Local Food Bank
The Woodbridge Food Bank will receive a generous donation of Thanksgiving turkeys and food stuffs from the employees at Barker Steel of Keasbey, Mayor Frank G. Pelzman has announced.
“ Winter months always put a strain on local food pantries,” says Mayor Pelzman. “It is very important at this holiday season that we not forget the less fortunate members of our community.”
Peter Barcellona of the Woodbridge Health Department will pick up two dozen turkeys and a large cache of canned goods from employees at Barker Steel on Tuesday, Nov. 23 at 2:30 p.m.
According to a recent U.S. Department of Agriculture report, 12 million American families – 11.2 percent of all U.S. households – are at some time during the year uncertain of having, or unable to acquire, enough food for all their members.
As part of an ongoing awareness campaign, Woodbridge Township uses public events throughout the year to focus attention on local food pantries, from the Mayor’s Summer Concert Series to the upcoming Barron Arts Center Holiday Concert on Dec. 10. “The entertainment is free,” says Mayor Pelzman, “but by encouraging people to bring a food donation, we are able to bring in tens of thousands of additional items to the Woodbridge Food Bank.”
“No matter what their job, what their salary base, our employees were eager to chip in to the food drive,” says Ann Marie Karczmit, Manager of Sales Administration for Barker Steel. “We hope we’ve started a new tradition here of holiday donations.”
So do the folks in Woodbridge who depend on their local food pantry to keep body and soul together.
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