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ABOUT TOWN: Stoughton Chamber, Chinatown Help Raise $2K for Food Pantries
Welcome to "About Town with Mark Snyder," a column that will keep you up to the minute with what's what, who's who and what's going on around town.
OVER TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS RAISED FOR STOUGHTON FOOD PANTRIES: Stoughton Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Terry Schneider likes food. He loves Chinese food. And, he loves Chinatown Restaurant. He wanted to experience their new Dim Sum menu, and maybe do a good thing for others.
So, he came up with the idea of doing a fundraiser for the Food Pantry Foundation of Stoughton, while letting interested residents experience Dim Sum.
Nearly 60 local business men and women flocked to Chinatown on Monday, August 5 for an all-you-can-eat Dim Sum buffet in the function room at the Cobb Corner restaurant, with all the proceeds going to the Food Pantry Foundation of Stoughton.
Stoughton Board of Selectmen Vice Chair Cynthia Walsh was there, as was former Chairman of that Board, John Stagnone. Both said they wanted to support the Ilse Marks Food Pantry and St. Anthony's Free Market.
Everyone enjoyed the food, but the best part of the evening was that many hungry people will get to eat some healthy food from their pantries.
Lisa and William Wong, the evening's hosts (along with their son Henry, the proprietor of Ten-Ichi in Natick), not only donated all the food for the Dim Sum event, but doubled all money collected (price of admission was $10 per person), with a check for $1,100. Then, the Prone Family Foundation donated another $1,000.
So, after all was said and done, more than $2,100 came into the Food Pantry Foundation of Stoughton.
This columnist was also surprised and honored with a presentation of a giant cake, inscribed with "You've got your cake, now leave! We will miss you" and a photo of me from Facebook and Twitter.
Since the For Sale sign went up in front of my house, residents have told me they will miss me and my columns. The good news is I will continue to write my columns, while commuting back and forth from the Cape. I will be sharing office space on the third floor of 4 Cabot Place with Natalia Vargas Insurance. So, I'll take the cake, but I'm not leaving the adopted hometown that lives in my heart.
The cake was donated by Stop & Shop in Stoughton.
This, my readers, is what Stoughton is all about.
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