You re invited to the ultimate pasta party!
When you donate some pasta to Dominic Mercado this weekend, you re actually giving back to the community at large. Let me explain...
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We received a message from a man named Carlos Mercado. He and his son Dominic are from Vineland where they ll be collecting food to help those in need this weekend. More specifically, Dominic has decided that for another year, he d like to pay it forward for his birthday by collecting pasta and sauce donations.
It s a big birthday from Dominic this year. He ll be 13-years-old; officially a teenager! He hatched the idea to collect for the Vineland Soup Kitchen last year for his birthday since he couldn t do much because of COVID-19. Word spread quickly of what Dominic was trying to accomplish with the help social media. It even reached Governor Murphy s ears. When he mentioned it during one of his daily briefings last year, everybody was talking about it. Carlos, Dominic s dad, says
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