Curves of Sunbury donates food to BWFWS

Curves of Sun­bury col­lected 1,700 pounds of food and house­hold items for Big Wal­nut Friends Who Share dur­ing the Annual Curves Food Drive to ben­e­fit local food banks. Last Sat­ur­day, Friends Who Share board Pres­i­dent Larry Tornes stopped at Curves to pick up the donated items and Curves of Sun­bury mem­bers were wait­ing to help load his pick-up truck. From left are Pam Keefer, Amanda Keefer, Curves of Sun­bury owner Joann Hings­ber­gen, Dianna Lagucki and Lau­rie Cel­lar. (Photo by Lenny C. Lepola)

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Each year for the past 10 years, Curves of Sun­bury has offered local res­i­dents the oppor­tu­nity to con­tribute food and other house­hold items to the Big Wal­nut Friends Who Share Food Pantry. Dur­ing the month of March, Curves of Sun­bury par­tic­i­pates in the Annual Curves Food Drive to ben­e­fit local food banks.

With a theme of “Good for your body and your soul”, this year’s drive encour­aged Curves mem­bers to feel dou­bly good about them­selves as they made time to exer­cise for good health and took time to help oth­ers in the com­mu­nity with a dona­tion of nutri­tious food.

“The Curves Food Drive is always excit­ing,” said Joann Hings­ber­gen, owner of the Sun­bury Curves, located at 20 South Ver­non Street. “We really appre­ci­ate all our ladies help­ing bring dona­tions in for Big Wal­nut Friends Who Share, to stock up their food pantry for part of the year. This food goes to help a lot of peo­ple in the com­mu­nity who are in need, and our ladies are always very generous.”

BWFWS board pres­i­dent Larry Tornes stopped at Curves last Sat­ur­day to load the donated items in a pickup truck to deliver to the Friends Who Share store.

“We cer­tainly appre­ci­ate Sun­bury Curves com­mit­ment to Big Wal­nut Friends Who Share,” Tornes said. “This com­mu­nity has been tremen­dous with the con­tri­bu­tions they give to us.”

Curves of Sun­bury is open from 6 a.m. until 7 p.m. Mon­day, Wednes­day and Fri­day, Tues­day and Thurs­day from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Sat­ur­day from 8 a.m. until 12 noon. For more infor­ma­tion, call Curves at 740–965-6500.

Big Wal­nut Friends Who Share, east­ern Delaware County’s grass­roots social ser­vice agency, is an all-volunteer,

non-profit orga­ni­za­tion that serves any­one in need through­out the Big Wal­nut area.

The Big Wal­nut Friends Who Share Store at 216 High Street, Sun­bury, is open to those in need on Wednes­day morn­ings from 9 until 11:30 a.m., and dur­ing the evening on the sec­ond and fourth Tues­day of each month from 6:30 until 8 p.m.

On the sec­ond Sat­ur­day of each month, senior cit­i­zens can visit the Friends Who Share Store from 10 a.m. until 12 noon. Vol­un­teers help out at the cen­ter from 9 a.m. until 11:30 every Mon­day morn­ing. The store accepts donated items on Mon­days and Wednes­days from 9 a.m. until 11:30 a.m.

To vol­un­teer, to donate needed items, or to make a finan­cial con­tri­bu­tion to Friends Who Share projects, call 740–965-9596. Cash dona­tions may be sent to Big Wal­nut Friends Who Share, P.O. Box 424, Sun­bury, 43074.

Big Wal­nut Friends Who Share can be found on the Inter­net at < bigwalnutfriendswhoshare.org >.

Posted by Gary Henery on Apr 4 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.