[4138] in APO News
Re: food donated to CASPAR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ira L Cooper)
Thu Oct 7 18:10:01 1999
Message-Id: <199910072209.SAA227026@caes-sun-5.mit.edu>
To: apo-news@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Oct 1999 16:29:19 EDT."
<199910072029.QAA06426@apo.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 18:09:54 -0400
From: Ira L Cooper <ira@MIT.EDU>
In message <199910072029.QAA06426@apo.mit.edu>, Emily Marcus writes:
>
>Just for the curious, the domecoming people called the office during
>domecoming because they had ~70 excess boxed lunches. We were able to
>get the lunches delivered to CASPAR (a shelter near campus).
>
>Yay underattended events.
It was not advertised ahead of time. Literally someone walked up
to us, while we were on the way to Tosci's and asked us if we could make
sure that ~70 meals got eaten/distributed ;).
I just wanted to clarify this in case anyone thinks they missed a
normally scheduled project.
>Perhaps it would be worth printing up a pamplet to distribute to various
>organizations about shelters in the area and what sort of food donations
>they can accept?
That might be cool. I'd suggest that we talk to the Boston Food
Bank about this. They might have alot more clue about what is involved.
YiLF&S,
-Ira
