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Meals being prepared at Rethink Food’s Brooklyn Navy Yard facility. Courtesy of Rethink Food.The city is shutting down [/brooklyn-coronavirus-briefing-march-16/], and New York’s grocery store shelves are being emptied out [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/nyregion/coronavirus-panic-buying.html] as frantic shoppers stock up on rice, canned
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Sometimes life hits hard. Suddenly, you may find you are unemployed, without benefits, with a spouse, three children, and a dog to feed. Our neighborhood has a couple of programs — aside from WIC and SNAP — where families can get help in an emergency. One of them is the food pantry
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This holiday season, Reaching-out Community Services [http://rcsprograms.org/] (RCS) is urging people to pay it forward. Each Thanksgiving, the social services agency doles out hundreds of turkeys to people in need. For just $20, you can sponsor a turkey with all the trimmings for one struggling family. This year,
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Take a stand against hunger! Bensonhurst’s social services agency Reaching-Out Community Services [http://rcsprograms.org/] will be holding its 7th annual Walk Against Hunger [http://files.ctctcdn.com/0bc5da70101/33c02d98-e41c-4ee8-b8a4-534a4e385e43.pdf] on Saturday, October 3. The registration begins at 10am at Milestone Park (18th Avenue between 81st Street &
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Source: YouTube/ rcsprogramsThis holiday season, teach your kids about the greatest gift of all: helping others who are less fortunate. There are many children in our neighborhoods whose parents can’t afford to buy them presents. Luckily, a wonderful charity, Reaching-Out Community Services [http://rcsprograms.org/] (RCS), has organized one
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Source: shaletann / FlickrFor the fourth year in a row [/backpacks-needed-for-needy-kids-returning-to-school/], Reaching-Out Community Services will be distributing more than 500 backpacks with school supplies for children in need during its Big Backpack Giveaway event, tomorrow, August 28 at 1:00 p.m. According to an email from the group: “This is
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Source: KooKoo Bear Kids/FlickrBack to school time isn’t only stressful for kids who are devastated that summer is ending, but also stressful for parents forced to buy their children new supplies and clothes. For some parents, that obligation is more trying and they can use all the help
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Would you like to enjoy cocktails and free hors d’oeuvres while helping out Bensonhurst’s less fortunate? The Bay Ridge Democrats are hosting a holiday party and food drive tomorrow night from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Long Bow Pub & Pantry (7316 3rd Avenue)