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With the holiday season over and a coronavirus spike expected food pantries are bracing for an increased need, and challenges in keeping clients and volunteers safe. Based on the increased number of customers during the last two months coupled with COVID 19, we are expecting an increase demand for the pantry s food, said Robert LaPorte, of the Chelmsford Food Pantry, also known as the Chelmsford Exchange.
LaPorte is among the volunteers who have stepped up following the death of food pantry founder Sandie Donovan.
Volunteers took on a growing role as Donovan s declining health affected her ability to run the food pantry.
Westford Food Pantry receives additional funding
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The Westford Food Pantry is a recipient of additional funding from the Middlesex Savings Bank, a mutual bank in Massachusetts.
The bank announced additional funding from its charitable foundation’s $1 million COVID-19 relief fund.
In this fourth wave of grant distribution, the Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation is providing 33 local food pantries each with a $10,000 contribution to support their response to the pandemic.
In our 41st year of service, we at A Place To Turn remain committed to the mission of our founders: to help make our neighbors’ lives better,” said Joanne Barry, executive director of A Place To Turn. “Because of donors like Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation, we are able to continue to provide emergency food, diapers and personal care items to those in need while maintaining virus prevention practices of mask wearing, social distancing, and sanitizing, and have moved our dist