Community Corner
Food Pantry Benefit Raises Record $10,000
The City of Middletown is matching 50 cents of every one of the $6,700 St. Francis of Assisi Church Grinders for Grace dollar raised for the Amazing Grace Food Pantry.
A grinder benefit for the city's food pantry this year received so much local support that it broke its own record by $700.
Grinders for Grace, sponsored by to benefit the St. Vincent De Paul Amazing Grace Food Pantry, on April 19 was notable by the largesse of folks and businesses ordering grinders — and by the sheer numbers of components involved in such a huge fundraiser.
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In all $6,700 was raised from the sale of grinders, and with the City of Middletown matching 50 cents of each dollar — the total food pantry donation will be $10,000.
Parishioners sold 1,200 grinders, made 6,000 meatballs and 30 gallons of sauce, used 600 pounds of hamburger from Meadow Meat and 50 dozen eggs from Hi-Land Farms in Durham. They delivered 535 grinders to businesses in the community such as 17 to (for the sixth year in a row), 14 to .
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Three schools participated again this year: Farm Hill, Spencer and Lawrence elementaries, who ordered about 15 each. There were "tons" of volunteers including Margarito Rodriquez, owner of , who we could not have done this without, plus the members of the and many people from the different churches or organizations in town.
Last year, the event raised $6,000.
