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- South Windsor Team at Stop and Shop
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- Manchester Team
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- Manchester Team
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- South Windsor Team at Geisslers
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By JESSE LEAVENWORTH
The Hartford Courant
4:57 p.m. EST, November 25, 2013
MANCHESTER — A regional food drive in its fifth year tallied “phenomenal” results, an organizer announced Monday.
The Emergency of Hunger drive, run by emergency response agencies and Rotary Club members, gathered 38,309 food items, $24,143 in cash, checks and gift cards and 596 turkeys, event organizer Dave Skoczulek said.
Donations were gathered at supermarkets in Manchester, South Windsor, Vernon, Windsor and Enfield, the latest community to join the effort. The donations go to food pantries and shelters in each town.
“Because we keep adding towns and changing hours and tinkering with the format, it’s hard to say if it was the biggest year,” Skoczulek said. “But I would say it was the best year. We had the most fun, brought in a huge amount, had the best interactions with the public and saw the biggest desire to give.”
Over the past five years, the drive has tallied 147,000 food items, $96,186 in donations and 4,170 turkeys.