Babies, Toddlers, Shop for Food to Donate to Food Pantry
The Harkness House partnered with the Grand Food Center to donate items to New Trier Township Food Pantry.
A line of toddlers pushing shopping carts filled the baking aisle at the Grand Food Center on Tuesday morning. Giggling, cheerful, these cutie pies were on a mission, and, no, it was not to buy candy. These tiny tots from the Harkness House for Children were shopping for food to donate to New Trier Township Food Pantry. “This is the first time we’ve done it,” said Jaimie Walnes, fundraising chair with the all-volunteer school board. “We wanted to do something with [the Grand Food Center] to say thank you, and we know that they are super into the community so we came up with the food drive idea.” Armed with $5 each, the 50 children aged between 15-months old and 5 years old, were tasked with finding items for lunch or dinner at the …
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