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Bethlehem
Students, Parents Team Up To Help Squash Hunger
Tues. Oct. 6 and Wed. Oct. 7,
2009
Bethlehem Central Elementary Schools:
Eagle Elementary School,
27 Van Dyke Road, Delmar;
Clarksville Elementary,
58 Verda Lane, Clarksville;
Elsmere Elementary,
247 Delaware Ave., Delmar;
Glenmont Elementary,
328 Route 9W, Glenmont;
Hamagrael Elementary,
1 McGuffey Lane, Delmar;
Slingerlands Elementary,
25 Union Ave., Delmar
Bethlehem Central Middle School, 332 Kenwood Ave.,
Delmar
The Delmar Marketplace,
406 Kenwood Ave., Delmar
Contacts:
Bethlehem Healthy
Kids Committee: Karen Shaw -- 518/439-4754
KSHAW2@nycap.rr.com
Bethlehem Cental
Middle School Garden Club: Mark Warford -- 518/439-7460 mwarford@bcsd.neric.org
Capital District
Community Gardens: Amy Klein, Executive Director – 518/274-8685
media@cdcg.org
Summary:
Students in Bethlehem’s Elementary and Middle Schools, under the
direction of parent volunteers from the Bethlehem Healthy Kids
Committee, are making donations to Capital District Community
Gardens’ Squash Hunger program. This effort is one facet of the
schools’ weeklong celebration of NY’s FARM TO YOU FEST.
Of Possible
Interest:
Scout troops
collecting produce to donate at school
BCMS Garden Club members
harvesting, washing & donating produce they’ve grown
Students and parents bringing
collection bins from schools to Delmar Marketplace
CDCG staff & volunteers picking
up donated food at Delmar Marketplace
CDCG delivering the food
students have donated to local service organizations
(please
contact the relevant party as noted above for the specific times and
locations of these activities)
Additional
information/background on involved organizations:
Bethlehem Healthy
Kids Committee http://bcsd.k12.ny.us/Parents_Community/Bethlehem_Healthy_Kids.html
BCMS Garden Club
http://bcsd.k12.ny.us/News/20092010/092309_BCMSgardenclub.html
CDCG Squash
Hunger Program
http://www.cdcg.org/SquashHunger.html
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Capital
District Community Gardens is a regional nonprofit community service
organization that has more than 30 years of experience. We help
local residents improve neighborhoods, foster self sufficiency and
grow food through community gardening and beautify urban areas
through street tree programs. CDCG manages 46 cooperative
neighborhood food gardens which serve more than 3,300 families. CDCG
also operates The Veggie Mobile, which brings fresh produce, at an
affordable price, into low-income, inner-city neighborhoods in our
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