Letter to the Editor: Always Time to Give

Around the winter holidays, many groups focus on fund-raising or food-collecting efforts to alleviate hunger in Metro West, but then December fades into January and we forget that many are still without the means to purchase enough food to keep their families healthy. Imagine not being able to give your children nutritious meals three times a day! How would you feel?  What would you do?

The Student Directors of the Sherborn Community Center Foundation recently talked about this issue and decided to take action and join forces with the Sherborn Town Clerk’s Office to help. “This is so simple but yet so powerful,” said Kylie Armo, Student Director. “People have been so generous” she went on to state.

The Student Directors held a food drive on Presidential Primary day, March 6th, to benefit A Place to Turn in Natick. Last year, A Place to Turn served over 8,000 people, most of them children.

Thanks to the combined efforts of Student Directors Kylie Armo, Taylor Coutts, Jake Frankenfield, and Tom Littlejohn along with Senior Advisor Michael Littlejohn and mentors Bob Whitman and Frank Hoek, more children and adults will find available food at the food pantry.

We found our neighboring food stores of Market Basket, Roche Brothers, Shaw’s and Stop & Shop very generous with contributions. Sherborn voters came through in a big way with bags and boxes of cans containing: stew, peanut butter, tuna, cereal, pasta, paper towels, and more. The contributions quickly mounted into high piles and were all delivered to A Place to Turn by these young adults and their advisors.

It just goes to show that a few people, with a good idea, can make a commitment and make a big difference.

Proudly,

Carole Marple, Sherborn Town Clerk

Jim Byrnes, Director of the Sherborn Community Foundation