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This Season of Giving

The Essex Community Fund recently joined together with the Essex Police Department for our annual Stuff-a-Cruiser event to benefit the Shoreline Soup Kitchen & Pantries for the Thanksgiving holiday. Colonial Market shoppers were asked for their help to Stuff-a-Cruiser by purchasing a few extra items with their regular groceries. As always, people in our community were extremely generous, with almost 1,700 pounds of food collected. Special thanks go to the Essex Boy Scouts and Shoreline Soup Kitchen volunteers who helped with the off-loading and sorting of it all at the Congregational Church in Old Saybrook site that evening.

Thanks go to everyone for their generosity in this season of giving. Those who didn’t get a chance to participate or if would like to give again may join us at our next Stuff-a-Cruiser event on Friday, Dec. 16 from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Colonial Market. The John Winthrop Middle School Choir will be singing carols as we aim to collect 2,000 pounds of food!

Jean Schneider, President

Essex Community Fund