Upon receiving the donation Zimbler said, \u201cWe\u2019ve seen an enormous increase in demand due to the recent flooding in the area.\u00a0 We are now serving, at least on a temporary basis, more than 625 individuals\u2026People who have never had to rely on assistance, are now seeking help to feed their families.\u00a0 Their stories are heart-breaking.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to food, volunteers at the Country Pantry provide assistance to individuals and families applying for services like HEAP and food stamps.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The pantry operates from the Church of the Annunciation on East South Street in Clark Mills and those in need of support are encouraged to stop in.<\/p>\n
(Clinton, NY – July 2013) Sodexo Senior Living at LutheranCare has made a $1,000 donation to the Country Pantry. \u00a0Pictured from left: Beverly Covell, Country Pantry Assistant Coordinator; Mary Zimbler and Cindy Caggiano. \u00a0Through Sodexo Foundation\u2019s efforts to end domestic childhood hunger, Cindy Caggiano, general manager of Sodexo was able to present a $1,000\u00a0check to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-cEo","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48632","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=48632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"SodexoDonationCr\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/SodexoDonationCr.jpg\")
<\/a>Working to fight hunger is part of Sodexo\u2019s global STOP Hunger initiative and its overall effort to support the communities in which it operates. Sodexo Foundation (www.SodexoFoundation.org<\/a>) is the company\u2019s nonprofit charitable arm, which has a mission to ensure that every child in the United States, especially those most at-risk, grows up with dependable access to enough nutritious food to enable them to lead a healthy, productive life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"