Cheer Team Hosts Food Drive

The Wakefield Pop Warner Cheering Team is hosting a food drive for the Wakefield Interfaith Food Pantry on Saturday, Oct. 24.

“We are thrilled to organize a food drive on behalf of the Wakefield Interfaith Food Pantry,” said Nicole Scione, head coach, Wakefield Pop Warner Cheerleading Team. “We all live and thrive in this community, and the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of the food pantry’s clients means the world to us.”

The 14-member Wakefield Pop Warner Cheerleading Team is coached by Nicole Scione. Scione’s cheerleading team, made up of girls between the ages of 9 and 11, will take part in a competition at Tsongas Arena in Lowell on Oct. 31.

Consisting of approximately 325,000 young people ranging from ages 5 to 16 years old, Pop Warner is a national non-profit organization that provides the largest youth football, cheer, and dance program in the world.

Key stats about hunger in Eastern Massachusetts:

• About a third of the households receiving food assistance have at least one child younger than 18 years of age.
• Half of those served belong to the most vulnerable age groups of children and seniors, for whom proper nutrition is vital.
• 72% of households need to use a food pantry on a regular basis to have enough to eat. (Source: Greater Boston Food Bank)

The Wakefield Interfaith Food Pantry also welcomes cash and check donations made out to the Wakefield Interfaith Food Pantry. For up-to-date listings of most-needed food, please visit their Web site at: www.wifoodpantry.org

The Wakefield Interfaith Food Pantry would like to gratefully acknowledge and thank Wakefield Co-Operative Bank for their hugely successful food drive which they hosted on Oct 10.