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WPI fraternity’s Thanksgiving Food Drive for the Friendly House! Go, WPI, go!!!

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Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity brothers

Each year, Worcester’s Friendly House, along with the Worcester Sheriff’s
Department, Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity and other local sponsors, work together to collect food for a Thanksgiving meal program.

Our mission is to give local families a chance to spend their Thanksgiving holiday not worrying about putting food on the table.

Last year, our food drive was able to collect about 183,000 pounds of food!

This year the group is looking to raise the bar to 300,000 pounds. All of the donations will be distributed by
Friendly House to local families
in time for the holiday season.

In addition to serving food to families in need, Worcester’s Friendly House also
hosts a variety of after school programs for local youth at their facility and continues their work year round to support our Worcester community.

This is everyone’s chance to pitch in on the effort. Collection bags will be distributed to homes through most Worcester neighborhoods on Sunday, November 6, with a collection returning on Sunday the 13th.

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This is an opportunity to
make monetary or non-perishable food donations.

In addition, donations can be
made from November 16 to Nov. 18 at the Price Chopper at 564 Southwest Cutoff.

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Please take full opportunity to help us work to fight hunger in our Worcester community this holiday season!

Thank you!

Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity

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Animal Issues

Woo-town, USA!!!

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My Lilac looking pensive yesterday.

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That is until she mixes it up with the Jett-ster!

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Jett!!!!!!

Then a quick ride to Travis’ ABRASIVE BLASTING AND COATING INC on Sutton Lane. Did you know Trav and his guys can have your older/used lawn furniture/cast iron gates/fences looking like new? Pics from yesterday’s visit:

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Patio furniture awaiting sandblasting and painting…you choose your colors!

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Travis also s-blasts and repaints (very hard dirty work!!!) trucks, dump trucks, plows, even tire rims taller than Jett …

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And mark your calendars!!

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July 24
10 a.m.

14th edition!

George Street Bike Challenge for Major Taylor

Main and George streets
Worcester!

See how fast you can pedal up George Street, a two-block quad-buster that was a training ground for 1899 world champion Major Taylor.

It’s one rider at a time against the clock in this steep uphill time trial in downtown Worcester, presented by Barney’s Bicycle and the Seven Hills Wheelmen, on the fourth Sunday in July.

The distance is 500 feet, and the average grade is 18 percent.

The contest is open to riders age 12 and up.

Helmets are required.

Entry fee is $20.

Proceeds benefit the Major Taylor Association, Inc.

Registration is open.

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This Saturday!

Postal dude Ron L. holds the posters he’s put up all over town!

EVERYBODY IN AMERICA – including Worcester! – please put canned goods and other nonperishables in a bag next to your mail box early Saturday morning. Your USPS mail guy or gal will pick up your donations when he/she delivers your mail … Then he or she will deliver your food items to local food banks!

It’s the largest food drive in the country! So easy to participate!

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On a down beat … This is what I drove by yesterday: Millbury and lower Endicott streets … pathetic.

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Pics/text: Rosalie Tirella

Green Island Grrrl, Rosalie's Blog

Go, WPI, go!!!!

Each year, Worcester’s Friendly House, along with the Worcester Sheriff’s Department, WPI’s Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity and other local sponsors, work together to collect food for a Thanksgiving meal program.

This program provides local families with a luxury that they may not otherwise be able to have: a Thanksgiving dinner.

Our mission is give these families a chance to spend their Thanksgiving holiday not worrying about putting food on the table.

Last year, the food drive was able to collect almost 193,000 pounds of food, and this year, the group is looking to raise the bar to 200,000.

All of the donations will be distributed by Friendly House to local families in time for the holiday season.

In addition to serving food to families in need, Worcester’s Friendly House also hosts a variety of after school programs for local youth at their facility and continues their work year round to support our Worcester community.

This is everyone’s chance to pitch in on the effort.

Collection bags will be distributed out to homes through most sections of Worcester on Sunday November 8th with a collection returning on Saturday the 14th.

This is an opportunity to make monetary or non-perishable food items.

Please take full opportunity to help us work to fight hunger in our Worcester community this holiday season!

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Worcester college kids do good! WPI fraternity house collects food for families this Thanksgiving!

This year, Lambda Chi Alpha at WPI will be working to fight hunger in Worcester through our 20th annual Food Drive to support Friendly House.

For the second year, we will be partnering with Sigma Alpha Epsilon at WPI in order to spread this initiative to the Shrewsbury area as well.

In addition, we partner with the Worcester County Sheriff’s Department, Price Chopper, the Worcester Sharks, and other local sponsors.

Over the past 20 years Lambda Chi Alpha has collected almost 2,000,000 lbs of food for local families in need, helping feed over 2,000 families each year during the holiday season.

Last year, we collected 146,000 lbs of food and this year, by spreading it to the WPI campus and possibly other campus’ in the Worcester Consortium, we hope to reach our new goal of 250,000 lbs.

Working with the Sheriff’s Department we help staff a table at Price Chopper (50 Cambridge street), this year from November 10th-16, to collect non-perishable food items.

Over the course of the week Price Chopper marks certain food items that are in particular need by Friendly House at the time.

Lambda Chi Alpha also distributes shopping bags to houses in the Worcester area, this year on November 9th, for people to fill with non-perishable food items. We then return on November 15th, rain or shine, to collect the filled bags.

We collect all these donations at our house and fill a box truck to send to Friendly House that afternoon.

We look forward to this event each year with the opportunity to organize this event and help out the less fortunate families in the Worcester and Shrewsbury area.

If you would like to donate to the Food Drive, watch for bags at your door on November 9 or contact Aaron Pepin, the Interim External Vice President for Lambda Chi Alpha, at (603) 689-3869, or at lca@wpi.edu<mailto:lca@wpi.edu>.

If you are interested in hearing more about how food or monetary donations are used, contact Gordon Hargrove, Friendly House Executive Director, or Susan Daly at (508) 755-4362.

Reaching our goal of 250,000 lbs of food is only possible with everyone’s support!

Anything that you can donate is greatly appreciated, the issue of hunger is a hard one to beat.

This Food Drive gives the families in need the opportunity to not have to worry about this as much going into this years holiday season.

Thanks,

Aaron  Pepin

Worcester Polytechnic Institute Mechanical Engineering 

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Don’t forget! This Saturday … because no child should go hungry in Worcester … America

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Worcester postal workers deliver mail AND collect food THIS Sat., May 10!

 

Largest Annual One-Day, Food Drive Held on Saturday, May 10!

Worcester postal workers deliver mail and collect food

United Way of Central Massachusetts and The National Association Of Letter Carriers strive to collect 400,000 pounds of food!

Letter carriers will do much more than deliver mail on Saturday, May 10. They will help fill the food banks in the central Massachusetts area that have become bare in these tough economic times.

Next week, more than 800 volunteers including 600 Letter Carriers from 33 central Massachusetts’ communities will collect non-perishable foods items as part of the 21st annual “Stamp-Out Hunger” food drive. This is part of a national effort that will collect millions of pounds of food on Saturday.

The National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive, which is coordinated through a partnership among the National Association of Letter Carriers, the United States Postal Service, the AFL-CIO, the United Way of Central Massachusetts, and the Worcester County Food Bank, strives to stock the shelves of pantries around central Massachusetts with 400,000 pounds of food during this drive. Last year, local letter carriers collected more than 300,000 pounds of food for pantries in central Massachusetts.

“So often we think of contributing food during holiday time; but during the summers when children are not in school receiving free and reduced breakfasts and lunches – there is a critical need. And with our current economy, the need for food has increased dramatically, up 17% from last year alone. The Letter Carriers food drive fills that need,” said Paul Soucy, Director of Labor- AFL/CIO at the United Way of Central Massachusetts.

People are asked to leave any non-perishable canned goods or boxed items near their mailboxes. The Letter Carriers or volunteers will pick up the donated items while delivering mail along their route next Saturday.

Letter Carriers in the following Massachusetts communities are participating in the food drive: Auburn, Baldwinville, Blackstone, Clinton, Fitchburg, Holden, Hopedale, Hopkinton, Hudson, Leicester, Leominster, Lunenburg, Marlboro, Millbury, Northboro, North Brookfield, North Grafton, Oxford, Shrewsbury, Southbridge, South Grafton, Spencer, Uxbridge, Webster, Westboro, West Boylston, Whitinsville, Winchendon and Worcester.

 

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Worcester postal workers deliver mail AND collect food Sat., May 10!

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Largest Annual One-Day, Food Drive Held on Saturday, May 10!

Worcester postal workers deliver mail and collect food

United Way of Central Massachusetts and The National Association Of Letter Carriers strive to collect 400,000 pounds of food!

Letter carriers will do much more than deliver mail on Saturday, May 10. They will help fill the food banks in the central Massachusetts area that have become bare in these tough economic times.

Next week, more than 800 volunteers including 600 Letter Carriers from 33 central Massachusetts’ communities will collect non-perishable foods items as part of the 21st annual “Stamp-Out Hunger” food drive. This is part of a national effort that will collect millions of pounds of food on Saturday.

The National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive, which is coordinated through a partnership among the National Association of Letter Carriers, the United States Postal Service, the AFL-CIO, the United Way of Central Massachusetts, and the Worcester County Food Bank, strives to stock the shelves of pantries around central Massachusetts with 400,000 pounds of food during this drive. Last year, local letter carriers collected more than 300,000 pounds of food for pantries in central Massachusetts.

“So often we think of contributing food during holiday time; but during the summers when children are not in school receiving free and reduced breakfasts and lunches – there is a critical need. And with our current economy, the need for food has increased dramatically, up 17% from last year alone. The Letter Carriers food drive fills that need,” said Paul Soucy, Director of Labor- AFL/CIO at the United Way of Central Massachusetts.

People are asked to leave any non-perishable canned goods or boxed items near their mailboxes. The Letter Carriers or volunteers will pick up the donated items while delivering mail along their route next Saturday.

Letter Carriers in the following Massachusetts communities are participating in the food drive: Auburn, Baldwinville, Blackstone, Clinton, Fitchburg, Holden, Hopedale, Hopkinton, Hudson, Leicester, Leominster, Lunenburg, Marlboro, Millbury, Northboro, North Brookfield, North Grafton, Oxford, Shrewsbury, Southbridge, South Grafton, Spencer, Uxbridge, Webster, Westboro, West Boylston, Whitinsville, Winchendon and Worcester.