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Meals on Wheels of Chemung County
Prepared in Love...Delivered in Love
The March Out Hunger food drive Tuesday on Elmira's Southside got hunger on the run with the contribution of 11,087 nonperishable food items, more than 4,000 over the goal.
The fifth annual event drew more than 600 marchers, more than twice as many as last year, said Thea Parker, who chairs the March Out Hunger Planning Committee. The march is organized by volunteers to help provide food to the Catholic Charities Samaritan Center and Meals On Wheels of Chemung County.
"We're just completely, tremendously pleased with the outcome," Parker said. "We couldn't do it without the community support."
Marchers included students from throughout the Elmira school district. Among them was Aliya Casillas, 10, a fifth-grader at Parley Coburn Elementary, who was participating in her first march down South Main Street from Top's Friendly Market to the Samaritan Center.
"Samaritan Center and the Parley Coburn school would like to help each other to help the people who don't have food," she said. The school donated 530 food items.
"March Out Hunger is very important because it helps us understand that we should be thankful for what we have," said Beecher Elementary School fifth-grader Billie Rhode, junior grand marshal, as she read from her essay, "Why We Should Help the Hungry in Our Community."
March Out Hunger Senior Marshall Ed Lincoln and Junior Marshall Billie Rhodes just before the parade on October 3, 2006
March Out Hunger
Meals on Wheels Board Members and volunteers before the parade on October 3, 2006. From left, Darlene Ike, Judy Deprimo, Kent Goben, Patty Lamoreaux and Tom Karski.
At left, March Out Hunger organizer Jim Hare addresses the crowd of hundreds that gathered to participate and make this event so successful.
