Aggregate Industries Donates to Address Food Insecurity

For the past three years Aggregate Industries and its employees have quarterbacked a huge effort to raise money to support Chelmsford’s Table of Plenty and The Chelmsford Food Pantry. In addition to hosting a food drive at their Chelmsford plant, the company, which is a local Asphalt, Paving and Crushed stone supplier, made a very generous donation and also reached out to their many business partners and other Chelmsford businesses to involve them. On Tuesday, Vice President and General Manager, Bob Andersson and his team, donated a truck full of groceries to the Chelmsford Food Pantry and then presented Table of Plenty with a check from Aggregate and its partners for $51,950! Bob spoke of how over the past few years more and more families are experiencing food insecurity. He was quick to praise his team and all the businesses that contributed and how all of them were happy to help such an important cause.

Table of Plenty in Chelmsford serves a free weekly meal every Tuesday from 5:00 – 6:00 pm at the Senior Center in North Chelmsford. Mary Moriarty, President of Table of Plenty, said that during the pandemic when they shifted to a Grab N Go meal, the donation from Aggregate Industries and their partners was crucial to funding the 250 meals that were purchased each week from local restaurants and given out to guests. Now that meals are back in person, this donation will help their chefs buy the food and supplies needed to serve approximately 120 guests who come for dinner each week. For more information on Table of Plenty, please visit https://tableofplentyinchelmsford.org.

Bob LaPorte from the Chelmsford Food Pantry said that without this donation, the Food Pantry would be “in a pickle”. Their team of volunteers opens the pantry three days a week and provides food and resources for about 1400 people a month. For more information, please visit https://chelmsfordfoodpantry.org/about/.

Many thanks to the companies that contributed: Aggregate Industries, Sunshine Paving Corp, JDM & Sons, Bitumar USA Inc, All States Materials Group, Barletta Engineering, The Derenzo Charitable Foundation, DW White Construction, T&K Asphalt, Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Sullivan Tire and Auto Service, Superior Sealcoat Inc, Mystic Motors Ltd, Nocella Reclamation and Grading, CIM-LRD, Dykman Electric, CEC Civil & Engineering Consultants, BitCon Corp, C. Spirito Inc, Cassidy Corp, HaulHub Technologies, Chelmsford Crane Service, Tropeano Inc, Mill Metals Recyling, indus, Allied Paving Corp, Atlantic Paving Corp, Drum Hill Trucking, D&R Paving, McCourt Construction, E.R. Transportation Corp, JJR Trucking, P.J. Albert Inc Paving and Excavating, Pavements Inc, EJ Paving, W.L. French Excavating Corp, Milinazzo Paving Corp, Don Martin Corp, R.M. Pacella, Middlesex Corp, U.S. Pavement Services, Milton CAT, MGL Trucking, SealMaster, E.T.&L. Corp, C.N. Wood, E&E Trucking Corp, Marois Brothers Inc, MF Mckerinan, GL Truck Corp, Market Basket, Flaherty Equipment Sales, PITTBOS, Ferreira’s Towing & Recovery, Cooper Bros Paving-Josh, Brown and Caldwell, The Java Room, Construction Industries of Massachusetts, Carlisle Heating & Air, Stop & Shop, All Restoration Solutions, KCI Paving and Concrete, DHC Leasing LLC, Wayne Morris, and Bertucci’s.