A big thanks to the students and teachers of Island Avenue School and in particular, the Island Avenue Student Council, their advisor, Connie Piccione and Lily Paine. Lily, a 2nd grader, submitted the suggestion – through the Island Avenue School Student Council Suggestion Box – that Island Avenue sponsor a school-wide food drive to support the local Food […]
Continue readingMadison Girl Scouts recently collected 1000 pounds of food from around their neighborhoods for the MCS food pantry. They sorted and date-checked all the items and, as you can see, they had fun at the same time! Thank you all for such a great job.
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Madison Schools’ bus company, Durham School Services, recently held a “Stuff – A- Bus” food drive for the food pantry and got enough food to stuff the bus. Actually, they stuffed the bus with 2625 pounds of food! Thank you for such a great drive.
Continue readingMany thanks to St. Margaret Parish for this past Fathers’ Day weekend’s food drive. Over 3500 pounds were raised. The parishioners sorted, date checked and transported the food. It was done in record time. Great job Connie and Michael Piccione for organizing the event.
Continue readingA big thank you to Michelle Catucci and all the kids at Brown Middle School for the wonderful food drive. They raised 150 lbs of food which was much needed. We also would like to thank Anne Marie Haigis for all she does in the organization of the school drives.
Continue readingSt. Andrew’s Church just held a food drive over the weekend of May 19 and brought in over 1200 pounds of much needed food. Pastor Steve is seen here blessing the food before it was moved to the food pantry by lots of St. Andrews parishioners.
Continue readingThe Junior and Senior Youth Group at the North Madison Congregational Church raised over 400 pounds of food by having a scavenger hunt. They put flyers around the neighborhoods of Bartlett and Winterhill Road asking for donations. Then they went and picked up the bags. The foods were each given a point value and the […]
Continue readingJessica and Jillian from Our Lady of Mercy, presented a check to the Madison Food Pantry in the amount of $250. These young ladies decided to raffle off a basket filled with goodies with the proceeds going to the pantry. Thank you girls and OLM!
Continue readingIsland Avenue School held a food drive to benefit the Madison Food Pantry just in time for Easter and Passover. The kids worked hard not just gathering the food but loading up the van for transport. They raised 322 pounds of food. What a great job! Many thanks go out to all who were involved. […]
Continue readingThe Leos Club of the Polson School collected 240 pounds of food in their recent drive to benefit the Madison Food Pantry. The Leos Club is an extension of the Madison Lions Club and has been in existence at Polson since 2004. Lou Tresselt and Barry Miller, president-elect of the Madison Lions for 2013-2014, are […]
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