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John Stifler: In gratitude
Published: 2/9/2021 9:41:20 AM
I continue to be impressed by how local businesses are finding ways to support the community in the midst of all the coronavirus constraints.
On a recent Saturday, the Hungry Ghost bakery in Northampton donated two large bags full of bread to Dine In/Help Out, this year’s socially distanced version of the annual wintertime soup-and-bread supper that serves as a fundraiser for the Haiti Ministry of Grace Episcopal Church in Amherst.
Normally the supper is a lively party in the church’s parish hall. This year instead, drivers delivered quarts of soup, along with bread, cookies and muffins, to households from Belchertown to Williamsburg. In return, each at-home diner contributed to funds that support l’Ecole St. Matthieu, an elementary school in the farming community of Bayonnais, in northern Haiti. Money raised by this supper will help pay for new books for a long-anticipated library at the school and for a new kitche