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Article: Feeding a suburban need Lexington food pantry offers sustenance, compassion
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 30, 1995
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LEXINGTON -- Even in this affluent town, dozens of people go to
the Lexington Interfaith Outreach Food Pantry every week near the
Battle Green, leaving with fresh fruits and vegetables as well as
canned goods, bread and other staples.
"They're very nice," Betty Cronier, a 62-year-old disabled
Lexington woman, said of the volunteers who distribute food to her
and others every Saturday morning from 9:30 to 11 in the basement
hall at the Church of Our Redeemer on Meriam Street.
Others at the pantry on two recent Saturdays included Stephanie
Keane, 45, once homeless and now living in what amounts to a shelter
here; Dominick Morley, 38, of Lexington, a former design engineer
recovering from ...