Nancy Waters
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The Acton Democratic Town Committee (ADTC) and the Roche Brothers Acton store teamed up on Saturday, Jan. 23 as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Week of Service to collect and deliver a full truckload of groceries to the Acton Food Pantry.
More than twenty volunteers handed out and posted fliers to encourage donations from Roche Brothers shoppers over the course of the day and then sorted and loaded them onto a food pantry truck. Their efforts were so successful, said Donna Bottari, the director of the Acton Community Supper and Food Pantry, that it took her and her helpers nearly three hours to unload all the groceries from the truck. In addition, members of the ADTC and their friends donated more than $750 in cash to the pantry.