Feeding our neighbors in need

Bill Gross, Chester Area Christian Food Pantry volunteer, unloads a pallet of ice cold milk for the Mobile Market Wednesday, Nov. 24, at the Chester Cohen Recreation Complex. The event provided Thanksgiving meals for 242 families. Patrons received a "Meal in a Box" containing enough food for a family meal including macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, stuffing, pumpkin pies, green beans, corn, and sweet potatoes. As patrons moved down the line of food pallets, they also received 10 pounds of potatoes, a bag of apples, squash, a frozen baking chicken, and a case of grapes.
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Cars and trucks line the parking lot and roadway approaching Cohen Field Wednesday, Nov. 24, for the monthly Mobile Market sponsored by the Chester Area Christian Food Pantry (CACFP). The lot typically sees four or five rows of vehicles at a normal Mobile Market, but for this special Thanksgiving Mobile Market the lot was completely covered with eight rows of automobiles, approximately 120 total. Food pantry personnel said the November event was one of the biggest in the history of its Mobile Market food giveaways.
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Above, five Junior High Students from St. Mary's Catholic School in Chester volunteered at the November Mobile Market. Pictured, left to right, are: Logan McDonald, Jonathan Hayer, Nathan Jany, Natalie Shipley, and Hailey Yankey. With the students at far right is teacher Pam Fogerson. At left, members of the Chester Boy Scouts collected 4,600 food items during their annual Boy Scout food drive.
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Brayden Cates, left, and Levi Caldwell unload bags of food collected by the Chester Area Boy Scouts' Scouting for Food project. Scouts and adults collected the blue bags from donors across the Chester area and brought them to Grace Church Ministries, where they were unloaded, sorted and then delivered to the Chester Area Christian Food Pantry.
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Members of the Chester Boy Scouts collected 4,600 food items during their annual Boy Scout food drive.
Courtesy of Bob Koenegstein

Boy Scouts from Chester and their leaders sort items collected as part of their Scouting for Food project. Citizens fill the bags and put them on their front porches to be collected by the Scouts the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
Courtesy of Bob Koenegstein