And this is why cambridge based Food Rescue Organization fran Van Overbeeke freeway has launched a new initiative for pine street inn. To bring fresh healthy food directly from the field to the shelter. To tell us more about how food for free and pine street inn are working together to provide better new tryings for the homeless we have invited Sasha Purpura, executive food for free and pine street inn executive chef frank, fran Van Overbeeke. Welcome to urban update. Thanks for coming in. Sasha. Let me start with you. Talk to me about the concept for this new mission, the field to shelter. How did this come about for the pine street inn and food for free . Weve been working with pine street inn for five years now bringing them primarily rescued food and purchased food. But we have had this field, we years. And we grow organic food on that and we distributed it to the agencies that we serve. We really use it as a tool to engage volunteers. So if our five years anniversary with the pine
A cold and wet day ahead of us. Flooding and erosion concerns along the south shore especially during the next tie hyde. Antoinette weve got some more of that wet weather heading our way, danielle. This cool, raw feeling is sticking around for a little while. Danielle antoinette and frank, this weekend unfortunately looks to be cool and raw pretty much all weekend lock. Were going to start to tend to dry out as we head towards tomorrow. I do want to talk about that Coastal Flood Advisory. Those same areas that saw the minor splashover yesterday could see it yet again today. Were looking at the high tide come inning the 4 00 hour. From 3 00 to 6 00 all the east coast is under that minor coastal advisory. As we go through saturday, that high tide is coming at 5 06 and watching a high tide on monday as well. Thats because we have strong northeast winds pulling in a lot of moisture. There are showers out there to contend with this morning. We definitely are socked in with the clouds and un
Tide. Danielle . We really need to get out those jackets this morning. Its just another one of those raw and cold days out there. That is correct. That is unfortunately the weather for today. We do have that Coastal Flood Advisory up from 3 00 p. M. Until 6 00 p. M. And we are expecting minor tide. So in case youre wondering when high tide is going to come, well, its coming in saturday at 4. 06 in afternoon and tomorrow at 5 06 and then monday at 6 08. One of the reasons why were seeing this is those persistent winds out of the north and east. Theyre also bringing in in toys youre. Because of that this morning were under some showers. You can see from worcester to boston. Down along the south shore, the cape and the islands. Now as we go through the day, heres whats going to happen. Notice these showers start to weaken a tad as we get towards, say, 7 30, 8 00. By 10 00, most of us starting to dry out but there is going to be continued showers especially the farther south you are of the
All of this cold, raw, wet weather, you may not like this morning, danielle. Danielle antoinette an frank, good morning. Thats correct. Unfortunately the cold, wet, raw weather sticking around for at least one to two more days action. We also have to talk about that Coastal Flood Advisory up from 3 00 to 6 00 p. M. Today because today. With those strong, persistent northeast winds, we can pile up the water there so be aware if you live by the coastline. We saw some minor coastal flooding yesterday. We could see more of to today. The other thing is the shower activity. Notice theres a lot of it out there on the weather map here. Very light in nature. That is the key. Its going to thin out as we head towards the later half of the morning and into the afternoon. The best concentration for the showers today . South and east of the mass pike. Besides that its all about the temperatures. Look how cool it is in worcester right now at 42 degrees. And unfortunately for you folks the upper 40s w