West Hartford Kicks Off Second Town-Wide Elementary School Food Drive

Written by Corbin Pierson Woods

WEST HARTFORD, CT — The second Town-Wide Elementary Schools Food Drive has kicked off with early success.

Three elementary schools have already held their food drives and donated several hundred pounds of food to the West Hartford Food Pantry. Several other elementary schools have committed and are also holding food drives over the next couple of months.

The West Hartford Food Pantry shelves run low each year after the winter holidays.

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The Town-Wide Food Drive began as a way to help replenish those shelves with much-needed food for West Hartford residents.

The West Hartford Food Pantry serves well over 800 households right here in West Hartford. The spring and summer months are a more difficult time for many of those families.

Once the schools get out for the summer break, students can no longer eat breakfasts and lunches at their schools. These Town-Wide food drives have helped replenish the food pantry shelves for those summer months.

ShopRite was a wonderful sponsor to our first Town-Wide Food Drive last spring donating 2,000 pounds of canned vegetables and fruits to the West Hartford Food Pantry.

ShopRite has once again graciously offered to join our town-wide efforts by making another donation to the West Hartford Food Pantry.

The most-needed food items include cereal, tuna, rice, spaghetti sauce, canned fruit, peanut butter, baked beans, canned ravioli, juice and small bottles of cooking oil.

The Food Pantry does not need vegetables nor regular beans at this time.

Any and all donations will be greatly appreciated by so many neighbors here in our own West Hartford. Residents in need of food assistance should contact West Hartford Human Services at 860-561-7561 for further information.

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