Curves health club food drive donates over one ton of food to the St. Vincent de Paul food pantry

A food drive undertaken at the Wilder Road health club Curves for Women resulted in a ton of food being donated to the St. Vincent de Paul food pantry at Visitation Church. It’s not a rough estimate, the club donated 2,047 pounds of non-perishable food to stock the pantry’s shelves. According to Curves owner Mary Makinen the food was collected throughout the month of March before being sent to the food pantry. Visitation St. Vincent de Paul pantry secretary of the treasurer Mark Morand was thrilled by the drive. “It was tremendous,” Morand said. “Our shelves were naked as a jaybird, we only had one food order left we could take out before this (came in).”

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