Monday, December 2, 2024
In order to help provide food to families in the community facing food insecurities this season, the Rockville Centre Police Benevolent Association in conjunction with Mayor Francis Murray and the Village board, hosted a drive-up food drive on Nov. 2 in front of the RVC Police Department headquarters on Maple Avenue.
James Carty, president of the Rockville Centre PBA, said that more than 125 cars showed up to participate this year, donating enough food to the Hispanic Brotherhood of Rockville Centre to feed nearly 40 families.
“The people of Rockville Centre really showed up the last two years for our food drive,” Carty said. “This year we had enough to fill two pickup trucks that were overflowing with food.”
Throughout the day, residents stopped by in cars, trucks and even on foot, to generously give whatever non-perishable food items they could to help stock the Hispanic Brotherhood’s food pantry before the Thanksgiving holiday.
Established in 1984, The Hispanic Brotherhood of Rockville Centre is a nonprofit community organization designed to assist the fast-growing population of immigrants from different Spanish-speaking cultures.
The agency assists with a wide range of resettlement services including housing, employment counseling, translation, legal assistance, citizenship counseling, afterschool child care, scholarship awards, senior care and emergency food supply for families and seniors across the South Shore of Long Island.
The Hispanic Brotherhood Food Distribution Center is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 59 Clinton Ave. in Rockville Centre. For more information call (516) 766-6610.
