NoVA Labor Donates Food to Hungry Students

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)To help alleviate hunger in local schools, NoVA Labor volunteers are asked to bring a canned or nonperishable food item when they show up for walks or phonebanks. “At a recent Lions Club meeting, an assistant principal at a Fairfax County Public School told us about talking with a parent about an underachieving student,” reports NoVA President Dan Duncan. “The parent started crying on the phone because they didn’t have any money to feed their child, let alone themselves. The school had an emergency fund of $500 for the year because this happens far too often in the wealthiest county in the nation. The school issued its last grocery store card to this parent in just the fourth week of the school year. We can’t let this happen.” NoVA Labor will distribute the food to local schools to help those in need. “We can help a child’s future while fighting to improve America’s and Virginia’s future!” Duncan adds. Walks continue this Saturday out of the NoVA Labor office with doors opening at 9a; NoVA Labor will also be open Monday, Columbus Day, for precinct walks and phone banking. Fredericksburg area walks continue as well, meeting at 9a at Ryan’s Restaurant, 1780 Carl D. Silver Parkway – contact Vance Ayres 240-533-7625 or Melvin Carter 540-455-6197 for more info. Phone banks continue daily at the NoVA Labor office; contact Dolores Gerber at 703-750-3633. “A great big shout-out to Painters Council 51, ATU Local 689, AFT, AFGE and the Alliance for Retired Americans for all the volunteers steadily coming to help!” says Duncan. - photo of NoVA food drive photo by Julie Hunter