VILLAS — Local food banks and pantries are finding shelves bare, often emptying out their supply for the needy on a daily basis.
Lower Township Councilman Thomas Conrad said food pantries of St. Barnabas By the Bay, 13 W. Bates Ave. and Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, 1220 Bayshore Road in Villas are being stripped. He said calls are coming from people with no food in their homes and “people are falling through the cracks.”
Lower Township Rescue Squad will accept donations of non-perishable food at its locations, behind Villas Fire Hall at the Rescue Squad North Building on Georgia Avenue and at headquarters at the Public Safety Building at the County Airport. Non-perishable food donations can be dropped off in the lobby of the Herald Newspaper, 1508 Route 47, Rio Grande, Seashore Community Church of the Nazarene, 446 Seashore Road in Erma, Lower Township Hall, 2600 Bayshore Road, Villas, Town Bank Fire Hall, 224 Townbank Rd. and Middle Township Ambulance Squad, Route 9 and Bennett Road, Court House.
Canned goods will be collected along the parade route of the West Cape May Christmas Parade on Dec. 5 beginning at 5 p.m.
Avalon – It absolutely makes sense for means testing for Social Security. We need to trim benefits for anyone 50 or younger, and give them better savings options. Anyone 50 or older should be grandfathered….
