LEEDS — The Deacons of the Leeds Community Church will host their annual pork supper from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, April 13, at 123 Church Hill Road. Free-will donations will be accepted at the door and all proceeds from the supper will benefit the Leeds Food Pantry.
Good Shepherd Food-Bank has pledged to match the first $300 raised at the supper. The goal is to raise $1500, which coupled with Good Shepherd’s match, will pay the pantry’s food expenses for three to four months.
The Leeds Food Pantry is open the first and third Thursday of each month from 6 to 7 p.m. The food pantry serves an average of 72 families each month, feeding about 175 people, with at least a third being children. The Deacons and a group of very faithful volunteers work diligently to keep the pantry shelves stocked with a variety of canned and boxed food, frozen meat and fresh produce.
Last year the pantry bought and distributed 28,446 pounds of food from Good Shepherd. The average cost per pound was only 23 cents. Every dollar donated puts several food items on the shelves.
This supper is the primary fund-raiser of the year. All food pantries are faced with decreasing financial support from grant funding. In 2011 the Leeds Food Pantry received $2166 in grant money from the Emergency Food & Shelter Program, given through United Way and administered locally by RCAM. Last year the pantry received $840, a 60 percent loss.
For more information, call 524-5444 or 524-7151.
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