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July 9, 2007

Food drive kicks off at 'hungriest time of year'

PROVIDENCE – At the kickoff today for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank’s summer food drive, three local businesses donated a total of at least 50,000 pounds of food.

Now, the Food Bank hopes to keep up the momentum and bring in 150,000 more pounds of food through Aug. 17, the end of the six-week food drive, according to Michael Cerio, the food bank’s communications coordinator.

As always, the food bank has particular food items that it most needs to round out the food drive during the period it calls “the hungriest time of year because school-aged children are not getting their school meals and household food budgets are stressed.” Those include peanut butter, tuna fish, nutritious breakfast cereals, canned fruits and vegetables and pasta and pasta sauce (preferably in plastic and not glass jars), Cerio said.

-- projo.com staff writer Kate Bramson

Posted by Kate Bramson  at 11:30 AM | Permalink

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