Thank you - over 4,000 lbs collected

The "Stamp Out Hunger" drive was a success on Saturday. The postal carriers drove their trucks to the Franklin Food Pantry to drop off the bags they had collected on their rounds delivering the mail to Franklin residents.

Help Stamp Out Hunger

The volunteers were lined up and ready in team to off load the trucks, weigh the bags and boxes, bring them to the cellar where they were date checked, sorted by product type and shelved.

Thank you card

The postal carriers and volunteers all received the thank you card as shown above.

For those who contributed by leaving food and non-food items, our thanks go out to you as well! The 3,000  4,000 pounds collected will help us continue to serve our neighbors.


Text on the card:

Last year our organization distributed more than 

150,000 pounds of food to 580 households, 

thanks to support from this community. 

Your efforts today will help us to meet the rapidly

 increasing needs for our services.

Thank you!

Franklin Elks Care 5K - Results

The Franklin Elks Care 5K road race attracted over 140 finishers on Saturday. The full listing of results can be found on Cool Running here.

As mentioned the race benefited the Franklin Food Pantry and the Wounded Warrior Project

The start of the race looked like this. A few cars go by on Pond St and then the start is announced.




At the finish line, this is a few minutes of the mid-pack finishers



Our thanks to the Franklin Elks for being part of this event!

Volunteers needed on Saturday

Thank you! We do have enough volunteers for Saturday. If you want to sign up to help for a future event, please do so by visiting the sign up form

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Once again, the Franklin postal carriers will be participating in the "Stamp Out Hunger" food drive. Residents are notified by their carriers about this event and the carriers pick it up on Saturday, May 11th. The donations will be delivered by the carriers to the Food Pantry that day. Then, the fun begins!

Franklin Food Pantry

We will need several volunteers on Saturday, May 11th between the hours of 2:00pm - 6:00pm. This would be a minimum of a 2-hour commitment. Some of the responsibilities include unloading postal trucks as they arrive, weighing the items, checking expiration dates, sorting, carrying items to the pantry and stocking the appropriate shelves.

Available shifts:
2-6
3-5
4-6

Stamp Out Hunger

Appropriate footwear is mandatory (no flip-flops!). Because the mail trucks come in randomly, there may be some down time. We will assign specific tasks so respond as soon as possible to secure your spot. You will receive an email back from us to confirm your shift.

Please let us know by send an email to volunteers@franklinfoodpantry.org

Stamp Out Hunger - May 11

This Saturday is the annual Stamp Out Hunger collection by the postal carriers. As they make the rounds delivering your mail, they can pick up bags of non-perishable food and non-food items.

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The post card notice of this event should be arriving in your mail box, if it hasn't already. It arrived in our mailbox on Tuesday.

If you are looking for a suggestion or two, the items that we are currently most in need of are: shampoo, body wash, shaped pasta (not long spaghetti), cereal, snack bars and other snack items for kids to bring to school.

Your Franklin neighbors will thank you!


For additional information on this campaign, you can visit the website http://www.helpstampouthunger.com/

Navigating the Supermarket Aisles With Michael Pollan and Michael Moss

Food choices can be tough. Combine specific dietary needs, volume sufficient for your family and your budget and the choices can be challenging.

So when two rather well known journalists on food go to the market, what choices do they make?

This is not the Michaels’ mien. Walking through the aisles of an urban supermarket, journalists Micahel Pollan and Michael Moss, who both write about issues of food and health, appear more like reporters in a conflict zone than your average domesticated shopper. 

But in a new video and story published in the New York Times this week, that’s exactly what the pair were sent to do: Buy provisions from a grocery store for a meal that would pass muster with the high standards put forward in Pollan’s Cooked and Moss’ Sugar Salt Fat. Unprocessed, low-salt, no added sugar, local, sustainable, organic, humane.

http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/05/03/michael-pollan-and-michael-moss-go-shopping?cmpid=foodinc-fb





For more on Michael Pollan visit his website  http://michaelpollan.com/

For more on Michael Moss visit his website http://michaelmossbooks.com/