CITY HARVEST BRINGS NYC BROTHERLY LOVE

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12th Annual Gala
“An Evening Of Practical Magic”
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Story And Photos By: Ann Watt
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David Arquette With Rob Thomas And Rachel Ray

City Harvest is testimony to brotherly love that exists in a city and culture that runs at such a speed that the most basic needs of many of our brothers and sisters are automatically ignored. In 1981 a soup kitchen worker, Helen ver Duin Palit, noticed that neighboring restaurants were wasting good food every day. Seeing an opportunity to bolster the food supply at the soup kitchen, she gathered volunteers and borrowed cars and vans to transport the food from where it was not needed to where it was needed very much. And City Harvest was born.City Harvest now distributes more than 100 million pounds of food to a network of more than 800 emergency food programs throughout New York City. They get this food from all segments of the food industry – restaurants, manufacturers, wholesalers, green markets, hotels, corporate cafeterias, grocery stores and farms. At this year’s 12th annual Gala “An Evening of Practical Magic” , was hosted by David Arquette, paid tribute to the efforts of individuals and organizations who have gone above and beyond in their commitment to help fee New York’s hungry. In this current economy an increasing number of the city’s most vulnerable citizens are now in need of emergency good, many for the first time! With donations, table sales and auction, they raised over $1 million thanks to City Harvest’s new friends and the organization’s longtime supporters. Visit Their Website at: www.cityharvest.org