Food pantries need donations year round
Local emergency food pantries typically receive the highest volume of donations during the holiday season, but low-income families’ need for food continues year round. If you want to donate food to your local emergency food pantry, here are some of the most-needed items, according to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. Foods six months past [...]
Read More →Bristol Rotary and fire department hosting food drive
The Bristol Rotary Club and the Bristol Fire Department will team up on Sunday, Jan. 27 along with volunteers, going door to door to collect non-perishable food donations to the Bristol Good Neighbors Soup Kitchen. Volunteers will deliver plastic bags to Bristol residents on Jan. 20; residents are asked to leave non-perishable food in these [...]
Read More →Food pantries: Need greater than ever
EAST BAY — Arthur Connelly would love to be driven out of business. “I wish the food pantries were doing poorly,” said Mr. Connelly, the floor manager at Bristol Good Neighbors, a pantry and soup kitchen in downtown Bristol. “When we get busy, that means people need help.” Unfortunately, he added, “for the past few [...]
Read More →East Bay serves up Thanksgiving baskets
Roger Williams University has been a kind friend recently to the soup kitchen, food pantry and day shelter known as Bristol Good Neighbors (BGN). First, when the recent storm knocked out power in downtown Bristol, the university let the soup kitchen use its freezers so its food wouldn’t spoil. Then last week, students and faculty [...]
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