Volunteers and donors dropped off goods and helped prepare 125 baskets.
- VOLUNTEERS IN THE NEWS
- Lauren Costa
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Monday proved to be a busy, but productive day for Coventry Community Food Bank Coordinator Stefani Dugas and the volunteers who helped prepare the 125 Thanksgiving baskets that will be picked up by Coventry families in need on Tuesday. At 9 a.m., Torino Social Club Director Richard Moschetti, Treasurer John Ruzzo and Vice President Lou Ruzzo delivered the 70 frozen turkeys that the club offered to donate to the food bank last week. The turkeys were purchased by the Torino Club from Coventry Wal Mart at 69 cents per pound and will provide dozens of Coventry families with a traditional Thanksgiving meal on Thursday. Moschetti acknowledged Town Council President Gary Cote who recently recommended making a donation to the food bank when …
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The turkeys will be donated to local families in need, along with vegetables, dessert and "all the fixin's" needed for a Thanksgiving dinner.
- VOLUNTEERS IN THE NEWS
- Lauren Costa
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
When Richard Moschetti recently read about the plight of Central Coventry firefighters and how they would be unable to make their annual donation of 70 Thanksgiving turkeys to the Coventry Food Bank this year, he knew how to help. Moschetti is a Coventry resident and a member of the Torino Social Club, one of the oldest Italian clubs in Rhode Island, having been chartered in 1916. The club currently consists of about 25 members, mostly from Coventry and West Greenwich, who regularly arrange fundraisers and charitable donations for local residents and organizations. This holiday season, the Torino Club will be donating the 70 turkeys to the food bank to benefit Coventry families in need. "I saw the Patch article and figured that we could…
