Volunteers Needed For Melrose’s Veterans Food Drive This Weekend

MELROSE, MA – The city of Melrose is calling on community members to serve as volunteers for the Veteran’s Food Drive this weekend.

The annual event will be held at Melrose’s Shaw’s Supermarket located at 34 Essex St from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 29.

The goal of the drive is to fill local veterans’ shelves with needed items.

Volunteers are needed to fill the following shifts:

• 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
• 10 a.m, to 12 p.m.
• 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.
• 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Melrose high school students are encouraged to volunteer to gain community service hours.

The Food Drive is made possible through a partnership with the Melrose Veterans’ Services Office. All donated food and gift cards will be given to the Servant’s Heart Food Pantry and the Pantry of Hope.

To volunteer, Melrose community members can email Roseann Trinofi-Mazzuchelli, Veterans Services Director for City of Melrose and Towns of Wakefield and Saugus, at [email protected] or call 781-979-4187.

Patch has partnered with Feeding America since 2020 to help raise awareness in our local communities of hunger, a persistent national problem exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Feeding America, which supports 200 food banks and 60,000 local meals programs across the country, estimates that nearly 34 million people, including 9 million children — about 1 in 6 Americans — are living with food insecurity. This is a Patch social good project; Feeding America receives 100 percent of donations. Find out how you can donate in your community or find a food pantry near you.