Rise Against Hunger Feeding the 5,000 multiplied

Packing 100,000 meals took about 250 volunteers, 5 hours

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

How fast can you package 100,000 meals to be shipped overseas? Pretty quickly, if a Saturday event in Georgetown was any indication. Two shifts of workers managed to pack about 16,700 quart-size bags Saturday in Georgetown. Each pack will feed six people. The rapid packing came courtesy of an assembly-line production set up in advance by Rise Against Hunger and …

TSD Review Feb 23

Town Square LIVE Weekly Review – Feb. 23, 2023

Sonja FreyTown Square Live, Weekly Review

Click on the image below to view the PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Community DoMore24: Your chance to help nonprofits you like Screening Room movie theater opens in downtown Wilmington New group wants to preserve Brandywine Hundred history Sussex community event hopes to pack, donate 150,000 meals Business UD alumna jumped into ‘Shark Tank;’ swam away with deal Food …

RISE Against Hunger meals packing

Sussex community event hopes to pack, donate 150,000 meals

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

A Sussex County community-wide program aimed at feeding the hungry plans to pack and donate as many as 150,000 meals March 4. It already knows it has the money and manpower to pack 100,000 and is hoping for more donations between now and March 2 to help hit their goal.  “I am really kind of ecstatic about where we are, …