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3/28/2021 - Westbay Community Action Center (Report posted on 4/1/2021, full story at the end)

READY TO ASSIST: Paul Salera, executive director of Westbay Community Action displays the contents of one of the boxes of food distributed to those showing up to Saturday’s event. About 230 boxes were distributed. (photo below)

RIDING IN STYLE: John Faria saw an opportunity to drive his vintage 1970 Cadillac convertible Saturday. He brought along Blake Lopatka whose mother Sarah director of elderly and family services at Westbay Community Action and helped organize Saturday’s event. (photo below)

EG TEAM: East Greenwich Lions Club members Steve Salfeety, club president Dan Weinstein, and Steve Basler line up for a group photo during a break in the action. (photo below)

LOADING FROM TWO SIDES: As vehicles arrived during the pickup, their first stop was for a meal prepared by Iggy’s for as long as they lasted followed by a box of non-perishable food plus a chicken from one side and a box of household products from the other side. (photo below)

Posted Thursday, April 1, 2021 10:34 am

Responding to community needs, Westbay Marketplace with the assistance of Plates with Purpose, and the Scituate and East Greenwich Lions Clubs, gave out 100 ready-to-eat meals, 230 boxes of food, 230 boxes of household products (from paper towels to laundry detergent) on Saturday morning (March 27, 2021), from the marketplace on Jefferson Boulevard. Plates with a Purpose has been raising funds that it, in turn, uses to buy meals from restaurants impacted by the pandemic. In this case Iggy’s prepared the bagged meals that included sandwiches. Members of the two Lions Clubs boxed the food and household products in preparation for distribution as well as assisting on Saturday. The food and household products were provided through donations from the Rhode Island Community Food Bank, local drives and by corporate supporters. Paul Salera, executive director of Westbay Community Action, aims to make the drive-through pantry a quarterly event.

(Text and photos by John Howell)

Originally posted in the Warwick Beacon (warwickonline.com)

https://warwickonline.com/stories/sa-wbay,160219#.YGYnZZmIQng.mailto

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