The South Windsor Community Center held a food drive on Saturday, November 2nd, to promote the local food pantry and to let residents know about the importance of donating.
“We have this food drive as a way to have volunteer opportunities for the high school kids to come down and help out,” Marietta St. Onge, the program coordinator for the South Windsor Community Center explained.
Across the country, and in South Windsor, people are running low on food, paper goods, cleaning products, toiletries, and anything that they need that has just become really expensive in stores.
“The food bank is extremely used, especially at this time during the holidays. The Teen Center is here to provide help within the community, and it also is a good lesson for the young kids to learn, and to get out there and volunteer and help out their community. It also looks good on their college resume,” St. Onge said.
According to St. Onge, anyone can come down to the Teen Center if you’re from middle school or high school, and snacks are provided. There are pool tables, foosball tables, a lounge with a TV; we have gaming consoles, and regular board games.
“[We] wanted to participate because it feels good to help others in need, especially those who are hungry during the holidays,” Brooke Stapleton, a member of the National Honor Society, stated.
Another NHS student, Meghan Foster, helped organize the event.
“NHS helped with the food drive by making signs and holding them up next to the road to get people’s attention about the drive, which got more people to donate,” Foster explained.
Anybody can always donate to the food pantry, and this food drive was just to capture people’s attention about the growing need that exists.
