Food Shelf News: Final Feinstein Challenge Tally
by Kerrie Pughe,
May 19, 2011, page 16.....

Thank you to the following for your generous support: Charlotte Congregational Church members, Don and Kate Maynard, Girl Scouts of the Green and White Mountains (GSGWM Troop 30698), Charles and Elizabeth Deslauriers, Bob Chutter, Charlotte town employees, Maj Eisinger, John Searles, Catherine Hughes, Karol Jane Josselyn, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church members, Evan and Catherine Metropoulos and all the anonymous donors who filled drop-off boxes around town. Thank you to Shelburne Supermarket employees Jim, Joe, Paul and Drew for their help with items for the April 28 distribution.
Total cash donations collected for the Feinstein Challenge equaled $6,242.72. Food item donations, valued at $1 per item for purposes of the matching challenge, equaled $948. The grand total collected for the food shelf during the challenge in March and April was $7,190.72! A big thank you to all who participated!
 The Charlotte Food Shelf is run entirely by volunteers, so all donations go directly for food or emergency assistance. We appreciate your donations any time of year; checks may be mailed to:
Charlotte Food Shelf & Assistance
c/o 3319 Mt. Philo Road, Charlotte, VT 05445

The Charlotte Food Shelf and Assistance, located on the lower level of the Charlotte Congregational Church vestry, is open from 7:30-9 a.m. on the following Thursdays for food distribution: May 26, June 19 and 23, July 7 and 21.
We are open to all community residents. Privacy is very important and respected in our mission of neighbor helping neighbor. Please remember when Charlotte Central School is closed, the Food Shelf is closed as well.
All non-perishable food donations may be dropped off at the Charlotte Library, the Charlotte Congregational Church vestry, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church (main entrance) or at the Food Shelf during the distribution mornings.
For emergency food call John at 425-3130.
For emergency assistance (electricity, fuel) call Karen at 425-3252.
For more information call Karen at 425-3252 or visit our website at https://sites.google.com/site/charlottefoodshelfvt/.