Please attend the Community Supper being served in the Fellowship Hall of the Francestown Community Church, April 4th, starting at 5:30pm. Fresh cooked chili (with and without meat) will be served by the Francestown Democratic Committee to benefit the Peterborough Food Pantry and FCC Outreach, which help feed local families lacking a secure supply of nutritious food. PLEASE BRING A NON-PERISHABLE FOOD ITEM with you to place in the donation boxes that will be set up in the Hall.

The Peterborough Food Pantry serves residents living in every town in the ConVal, JaffreyRindge, and Mascenic school districts. It is located in the Peterborough Community Center at 25 Elm Street (tel. 924-3008.) Open from 9am to 12 noon, Monday through Friday, it serves over 200 eligible families that come in regularly to select their food from the shelves stocked with non-perishables. The number of regular, weekly visitors to the Pantry has quite noticeably been increasing steadily.
Additionally, there has been a rise in the number of Veterans, seniors, and individuals who have temporarily fallen upon hard times, requesting food to tide them over for a few weeks. No one who is hungry is ever turned away. Volunteers working at the Pantry help enroll visitors and can provide useful information about SNAP (“food stamp” EBT cards), and other forms of assistance. The PFP also provides food to the “End 68 Hours of Hunger” program, operating out of the SAU on Route 202N. Every Friday afternoon, volunteers bag up and distribute food to over 170 students to cover their nutritional needs. Their needs, over the period of time stretching between their subsidized school lunch on Friday and their subsidized school breakfast on Monday, cannot be met by their own families.

Lori Way- Hardwick, through FCC Outreach, provides cooked meals year- round to Francestown families and distributes fresh, healthy, ingredients during the growing season, to those who would benefit from nutritional support. Please contact Lori, this summer, if you have garden produce that you can contribute to her Gleaning Project. In the midst of plenty, pockets of hunger and dire need may go unnoticed within our community.

Please share what you can, with a contribution of food or funds on April 5th. Spread the word, and bring your friends, to help support a worthy cause.