{"id":110252,"date":"2019-12-24T10:20:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T15:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=110252"},"modified":"2019-12-24T10:20:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T15:20:08","slug":"community-continues-to-support-herkimer-college-food-pantry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=110252","title":{"rendered":"Community continues to support Herkimer College food pantry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HCHC-Kiwanis-donations-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HCHC-Kiwanis-donations-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HCHC-Kiwanis-donations-900x675.png 900w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HCHC-Kiwanis-donations-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HCHC-Kiwanis-donations-400x300.png 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HCHC-Kiwanis-donations.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Representatives from the Herkimer County Hunger Coalition, the Frankfort Kiwanis Club, and Herkimer College stand for a photo inside the General\u2019s Cupboard.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Herkimer College has received donations from the Herkimer\nCounty Hunger Coalition and the Frankfort Kiwanis Club to support its on-campus\nfood pantry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, Dec. 23, the Herkimer County Hunger Coalition\npresented the General\u2019s Cupboard with $500 to be deposited into its account at\nthe Food Bank of CNY. The donation was made in memory of Marine SSGT. Joseph\n\u201cStash\u201d Zawtocki, Jr., a Little Falls native who died 50 years ago while being\nheld captive in a Viet Cong prison camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn keeping with our motto, \u2018We serve so no one shall go\nhungry,\u2019 as a former professor at HCCC, and on behalf of the directors, I\u2019m\nproud to make this donation and thank Mrs. Ruffing and her assistants for\nmeeting a very real and necessary need on campus,\u201d said Ray Lenarcic, coalition\nfounder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Frankfort Kiwanis Club, the local chapter of the\ninternational service non-profit, also donated $100 to Herkimer College\u2019s Food\nBank of CNY account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After debuting the General\u2019s Cupboard in early Fall 2019,\nthe College has seen an outpouring of community support, including donations\nfrom the Herkimer County College Foundation, Walmart Distribution Center in\nMarcy, New York, Compassion Coalition, Little Falls Knitting Club, Herkimer\nCollege employees, and local community members. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A partnership with the Food Bank of Central New York was recently solidified. \u201cOn behalf of the students who will benefit, we thank the Hunger Coalition and the Kiwanis Club for their generosity,\u201d said Director of Public Relations Rebecca Ruffing, who also serves as chair of the General\u2019s Cupboard Steering Committee. The General\u2019s Cupboard opened to students on Sept. 5 and served 177 students during the fall semester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herkimer College has received donations from the Herkimer County Hunger Coalition and the Frankfort Kiwanis Club to support its on-campus food pantry. On Monday, Dec. 23, the Herkimer County Hunger Coalition presented the General\u2019s Cupboard with $500 to be deposited into its account at the Food Bank of CNY. The donation was made in memory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}