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Need for Mobile Food Pantries in Connecticut Continues
Connecticut Foodshare’s weekly food distributions at Rentschler Field may have ended in April, but there are still those among us who struggle with food insecurity. That’s why the organization continues its foundational program of mobile food pantries. Once a month, Foodshare brings a truckload of food to the community on Eastern Street in New Haven. Seven pallots of food...
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Fern Street Food Ministry Prepares to Meet Uptick in Pantry Demand
Even as the United States works towards economic recovery from the pandemic, one consequence lingers: hunger. A local food ministry is stepping up to meet the need, and volunteers are bracing to see even greater demand. “The longer the pandemic lasts as a concern on people’s minds, potentially the more clients we’re going to start seeing on a regular...
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Norwich Free Academy Food Pantry Receives Financial Boost From Backus Hospital
The shelves at Norwich Free Academy’s in-school food pantry are bare. The pantry became depleted when the pandemic first hit. Since then, it has been a challenge to keep the shelves stocked as the need only grows. “The need just got much bigger. Families lost their jobs,” said Shirley Kutia, who runs the food pantry and the free clothing...
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Hamden Community Center's Garden Feeds Food Pantry
The food pantry at the Keefe Community Center has continued to offer food services to those who need it, especially over the last six months as they say the number of people showing up has increased. “We used to see about 200 families a month at the food bank and it went up to over 500 a month so we…
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Hamden Community Center's Garden Helping Feed Those in Need
The Keefe Community Center in Hamden has planted a garden to grow produce to help feed those facing food insecurities in town.
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South Windsor Middle School Student Launches Food Pantry Program
A 12-year-old in South Windsor is helping launch a program to establish community food pantries throughout the town.
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Food Pantry Held at Church in New Haven
In New Haven, New Flame Restoration Church handed out boxes of groceries to families in need.
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Pop-Up Food Pantry in New Haven
Pop-up food pantry will be taking place Thursday from 2 p.m. -3:30 p.m. at Bowen Field Parking lot in New Haven.
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House of Heroes CT and Veterans Rally Point Pop Up Pantry
Throughout the state, many organizations are working together to help families struggling to put food on the table. These two organizations are the latest to join forces and help veterans and their families.
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House of Heroes and Veterans Rally Point Host Pop-Up Food Pantry for Veterans
Throughout the state, many organizations are working together to help families struggling to put food on the table. House of Heroes Connecticut and Veterans Rally Point are the two latest organizations to join forces and help veterans and their families. Volunteers worked to fill boxes with non-perishable food items throughout Saturday morning. The one-time emergency food distribution had a goal…
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Hospitals Are Opening Food Pantries to Help Staff
Some hospitals are opening food pantries or makeshift grocery stores inside their facilities to help staff who don’t have time, don’t want to or can’t afford to go to a grocery store during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Food Banks and Pantries Work to Keep Up With Supply Demands
Connecticut Food Banks are taking a direct hit due to COVID-19. Many are trying to keep up with the demand of those who may suffer from food insecurity. Across the state, many of the food banks are hard at work to try and replenish their supplies while both regular and new clients ask for help. Hockanum Valley Community Council is…
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Food Banks Try to Keep Up With Need During Coronavirus Crisis
Connecticut’s food banks are trying to keep their shelves stocked as demand has increased during the coronavirus crisis.
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Greenwich United Way Gives Food Pantry Grant to Help Families in Need During COVID-19 Outbreak
The Greenwich United Way announced they are giving a $25,000 emergency grant to the Neighbor to Neighbor food pantry. The funds will help expand the organization’s food pantry and its ability to provide groceries for town residents in need, according to the United Way. Residents served by the food pantry are at extreme risk now more than ever because of…
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West Hartford Elementary School Donates Thousands of Items of Local Food Pantry
The mission at Morley Elementary School in West Hartford is to spread kindness. For 25 years, that kindness has been shown with donations.
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Haunted Salem: First Official Ghost Hunt at The Salem Inn
Paranormal Investigator Anthony Duda took NBC10 Boston’s Rob Michaelson on the first ever official paranormal investigation of The Salem Inn in Salem, Massachusetts. Let’s just say we had some very strange, unexplained experiences…
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Hot Air Balloons Hit the Skies for Annual Plainville Festival
For 35 years, Plainville firefighters have been going above and beyond to help the community, and it’s not just about fighting fires.
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‘Let Our Voices Be Heard': March Against Immigration Raids
The children of Sacred Heart Catholic Church streamed out into Mississippi’s heat on a blistering Sunday afternoon, carrying what they said was a message of opposition against immigration raids their parents could not. “I will not sit in silence while my parents are taken away,” read a sign carried by two Hispanic boys. They were among a group of several...
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Hundreds Arrested in Mississippi ICE Raids
Hundreds of undocumented workers have been released from federal custody following massive immigration raids in Mississippi. Now they, and hundreds of others still in custody, are awaiting court hearings and possible deportation.
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Hunger Becoming an Issue on College Campuses
For more and more college students in Connecticut and elsewhere, the burdens of paying to tuition, fees, room and board, and textbooks aren’t where the financial stresses stop.