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Team Grebien scores food for soup kitchen

In sponsoring a "Thank You" dinner for his supporters in last fall's Pawtucket mayoral race, former City Councilor Don Grebien asked one thing in return: That those attending bring along a canned good or other non-perishable food item for the needy.   With more than 250 people attending the Thursday, April 9 event at The Call restaurant and banquet hall, on Mendon Avenue, the impressive haul numbered several hundred food items and on Saturday, April 11 the Pawtucket Soup Kitchen in the basement of St. Joseph Church, on Walcott Street was the beneficiary.   Ernie Marot, the soup kitchen's longtime director, said the donations were urgently needed in the current tough economic times.

Maybe if more folks would tap their political campaigns and party functions, we could all help to solve the food problem in part for the needy/

Dear friends,

Candidate Grebien was just being a good citizen.   No extraordinary news item exists here.

I think he is setting an example of positive solutions as too many candidates talk about it and words are all they contribute to the problem.

I was at the Wellness Day at Woodlawn yesterday and they had lots of stuff for people from free food to free recipes with cheap and fun ideas to nutrition.

Not too many who needed it were there...Were you?