Weekend Food Drive To Help Restock Wrightstown Food Cupboard

NEWTOWN TOWNSHIP, PA — The Newtown Rotary Club will hold its annual fall food collection drive on Saturday, and the community is encouraged to donate what they can to the Wrightstown Food Cupboard.

Club members will be stationed outside of McCaffrey’s Market in Newtown from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. collecting donations of non-perishable food items to help replenish the Wrightstown Food Cupboard.

A collection drive held earlier this year brought in more than a dozen shopping carts loaded with shopping bags containing cereal, canned soups and pastas, and so much more, reported Shari Donahue, who organizes the twice-a-year food drive for the club.

Donations of cash also will be accepted and will be given to the food pantry to make purchases.

The Wrightstown Food Cupboard, supported by Anchor Presbyterian, Penns Park United Methodist, St. Mark’s Orthodox Church, and Wrightstown Friends Meeting, will distribute the donations to those in need in the local community.

For three decades, the food cupboard has operated out of the Penns Park United Methodist Church at 2394 Second Street Pike in Wrightstown, offering a helping hand to needy area individuals and families.

The food cupboard operates year-round, distributing food baskets at Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and the Fourth of July. It is always in need of pasta sauce (jars), coffee, tea, juice, peanut butter and jelly, in addition to personal products, including shampoo, toothpaste, diapers, and paper towels.

The Wrightstown Food Cupboard is open year-round by appointment.