PORT CHESTER — More than 100 low-income families loaded up with farm-fresh vegetables yesterday, handed out by a coalition of groups trying to provide fresh food for those in need. Aug. 11, 2007.
Publication Date: August 11, 2007
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AN UPDATE
Rosa Orlana, left, gets
produce yesterday from
volunteer Brenda Gianaspro
Rosa Orlana looked into her clean, canvas grocery bag yesterday afternoon and predicted her dinner menu.
"The squash. We'll make something with a cream sauce and some meat," the Port Chester woman said, using better English than a reporter's Spanish as she paused to answer questions. "And rice. We'll have it with rice."
More than 100 low-income families were planning their meals yesterday, loaded up with farm-fresh vegetables harvested and handed out by a coalition of church groups, hospitals and community organizations trying to ease food shortages for those in need.
Ann Barringer Spaeth, executive director of the Council of Community Services, worked her Spanish language skills.......
The food comes from a 12-acre farm in Goshen, the proceeds of a 2-acre parcel that the coalition rents and works with tireless volunteers like Rana Nutka.
"She's up at the farm two days a week and harvesting on Saturdays," Spaeth said.
The Rev. Hilario Albert served as the host, with long tables set up across the shaded side yard of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, where he serves the community.
Albert had set aside three heads of cabbage for the neighborhood dinner the church runs on Sundays and decided the guests could get along with less than that when a last-minute customer arrived to find little food left.
"Nobody should go to bed without food," Albert said. "It doesn't matter what color a person is, their nationality or anything else. We can spare one and live on what's left."
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Source: Journal News
Publication Date: August 12, 2007
Reporter: Greg Clary at gclary@lohud.com or 914-696-8566.
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UPDATE #2
August 14, 2007
PORT CHESTER -Rosa Orlana looked into her clean, canvas grocery bag yesterday afternoon and predicted her dinner menu.
"The squash. We'll make something with a cream sauce and some meat," the Port Chester woman said, using better English than a reporter's Spanish as she paused to answer questions. "And rice. We'll have it with rice."
More than 100 low-income families were planning their meals yesterday, loaded up with farm-fresh vegetables harvested and handed out by a coalition of church groups, hospitals and community organizations trying to ease food shortages for those in need.
…The Rev. Hilario Albert served as the host, with long tables set up across the shaded side yard of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, where he serves the community.
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