Woodbridge Have-A-Heart Food Drive Raises $30,000

WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Nice job, Woodbridge residents and local students! The 2018 Woodbridge Township ‘Have-A-Heart’ food drive collected $30,000 in cash donations and more than 25,000 pounds of non-perishable food for local food pantries.

More than 100 Township corporations, businesses, retail outlets, school students, charitable organizations and residents contributed to the Annual ‘Have-A-Heart’ food drive.

In fact, third grade students from Robert Mascenik School #26 in Iselin alone collected more than 700 pounds of non-perishable food. The student food drive program was coordinated by School #26 Principal Judith Martino and third grade teachers Melissa Finnerty, Leslie Cardello and Dolores Boyd. Students from St. John Vianney School in Colonia and Avenel Middle School also collected over 2,000 pounds of non-perishable foods for distribution by We Feed Woodbridge.

More than 100 Township corporations, businesses, retail outlets, school students, charitable organizations and residents contributed to the 2018 ‘Have-A-Heart’ food drive. Significant contributors include:

• Colonia Business Community (CBC) $6,000 and 700 lbs.
• Sansone Foundation $5,000
• Wegmans of Woodbridge 1,000 lbs.
• Woodbridge ShopRite 1,000 lbs.
• RSI Bank $2,500
• Northfield Bank $2,140
• Bishop George Ahr High School 1,200 lbs.
• Woodbridge Community Center 1,000 lbs.
• St. Anthony of Padua Church 1,000 lbs.

The food items will be distributed to needy Woodbridge Township families and individuals through the following food pantries:

· Heavens Helper’s Pantry, 343 Pearl Street, Woodbridge

· First Presbyterian Church, 1295 Oak Tree Road, Iselin

· Trinity Episcopal Church, Trinity Lane, Woodbridge

· Metro Park Assembly of God, 48 Berkeley Blvd., Iselin

· First Presbyterian Church, 600 Rahway Avenue, Woodbridge

· St. James Roman Catholic Church, 174 Grove Street, Woodbridge

· First Presbyterian Church of Avenel, 621 E. Woodbridge Avenue, Avenel

· First Congregational Church, Barron Avenue, Woodbridge

· St. Cecelia Roman Catholic Church, 45 Wilus Way, Iselin

· Fellowship Bible Church Food Pantry, 121 East Prospect Ave., Woodbridge

· First Baptist Church of Woodbridge, 130 Sewaren Avenue, Sewaren

· Deacons’ Table Soup Kitchen, Good Shepherd Parish, 625 Florida Grove Road, Hopelawn

· Trinity Episcopal Church Soup Kitchen, Trinity Lane, Woodbridge

Non-perishable foods can be dropped off any weekday at the Woodbridge Township Public Health Center, 2 George Frederick Plaza, between 8:30 AM and 4:30 PM. Additional food drop-off locations are at Woodbridge Town Hall, 1 Main Street, the Woodbridge Library, 1 George Frederick Plaza, or the Woodbridge Community Center, 600 Main Street.