To the Editor:

The Norfolk Raymondville Food Pantry, the Norwood Food Pantry and the Community Lunch Program for Kids would like to express our most sincere appreciation to the Ogdensburg Correctional Facility and Superintendent Frank for so generously sharing the bounty of their garden with our clients again this summer!

All three of these social service programs benefitted from the Tuesday deliveries of fresh produce from the Ogdensburg Correctional Facility. We all would reap the benefits of the fresh produce from the four acre garden at their facility, once a week.

Over the course of this summer we looked forward to large boxes and bags of fresh produce (including green beans and yellow beans, beets, green peppers and banana peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, acorn, spaghetti squash and yellow squash, as well as cabbage, turnips, potatoes and melons).

Any produce that was left at the end of the distribution time was given to the senior citizen housing on High Street in Norfolk and shared with the Community Lunch Program for Kids.

On behalf of all the people who benefitted from this program we would like to say thank you to all those that made this program possible. Our clients were most appreciative of your all efforts!

Wendy Chambers

Norfolk-Raymondville Food Pantry Coordinator Community Lunch Program for Kids