From: Polly Attwood <polly.attwood@gmail.com> Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 1:37 PM To: Ruth Ryals <rryals@comcast.net> Subject: 2/26 Chelsea Food Collection continues Greetings Porter Square area neighbors! This Friday Cambridge Cohousing continues the food & children's books collection for Chelsea. DROP OFF TIME: Friday, Feb 26, anytime from 9am to 3:00pm. NOTE: any food left off after 3pm we still collect and deliver the following week, so all gets there eventually! WHERE: 175 Richdale Ave entrance to Cohousing. Please leave items just inside the gate either in or, if full, beside boxes marked FOR CHELSEA. Various ones of us will be around to receive your food donations. THANK YOU!! REMEMBER TO DONATE ONLY THE FOOD ITEMS LISTED BELOW and be sure food is in original packaging. nothing can be open, or re-bagged in any way. if it is, we have to dispose of it. Also, there is a need again for DIAPERS, so include those if you can/want. Lastly, our Chelsea partner is happy to accept & distribute GIFT CARDS (Market Basket, Target, TJ MAxx, CVS), and prefer and appreciate the actual food donations. Thank you! * Rice, 2-3 lb bags * beans, dried and canned * tomatoes, canned * dry pasta * tuna * unsweetened cereals * baby food, unsweetened STRONG REMINDER -- PLEASE NO flour, sugar, condiments, and especially NO fresh foods/vegetables or fruits (supplied by generous food producer) -- Please email Anne Tonachel (annert@gmail.com) or myself (polly.attwood@gmail.com) if you have any questions. Thank you for your continued support, Anne and Polly -- "Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” ~James Baldwin in The Fire Next Time