Residents challenged to help feed families
POTTSTOWN » Pottstown Borough Council wants to help feed hungry families and doesn’t want to use your tax dollars to do it.
Instead, council has mounted a food drive and is urging residents to help those who need it.
“In past years, our town has faced many challenges. History has taught us that those challenges can be overcome when we work together as a community,” Council President Dan Weand wrote in a press release announcing the initiative.
“At this time, our community faces the strain of food insecurity. No child or adult should ever feel the pain of hunger,” he wrote.
Pot tstown Borough Councilors and Mayor Stephanie Henrick are asking the people of Pottstown to “step up to the (dinner) plate” and help to provide nonperishable food items for those folks who are faced with the challenge of feeding their families and themselves.
A can of soup, a box of noodles, or a can of tuna are but a very small list of items that could provide a bit of comfort to those in need.
Food items can be dropped off at to J. J. Rattigan’s, 227 E. High St., or any of the Pottstown firehouses:
• Empire Hook & Ladder Fire Company, 714 E. High St.,
• Goodwill Fire Company, 714 E. High St.,
• North End Fire Company, 301 Prospect St.,
• Phillies Fire Company, 240 Chestnut St.
Food items can be dropped off at the above locations from Saturday Dec. 5 until Dec. 19.
Although the coronavirus pandemic’s restrictions will keep Santa from visiting his downtown house this year, he has put it to a holiday use and is asking residents to take the “Santa Challenge,” according to Weand.
The Santa Challenge is to “fill the Santa House with food from floor to ceiling until the walls bulge.”
The Cluster of Religious Communities Food Pantry will distribute the food donations.
Let’s show Santa we can meet his challenge,” Weand wrote.