By Mickey Friedman January 1, 2020 Not your fingers. Or the ginger cookie. Or the center getting the ball to the quarterback. But the program that helps people get enough food to survive. SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The…
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Mel Multiplied
Mickey Friedman November 7, 2019 I do Thursday. One of a team picking up donated food from Fuel, Big Y, Guido’s, and Great Barrington Bagel for People’s Pantry weekly food distribution. Early on it was Mel Greenberg, sometimes Phyllis Weiss,…
Mel
Mickey Friedman July 19, 2019 The last few years it was touch and go. And I wondered which would come first, whether Mel Greenberg would succumb to cancer or Mel and I would die while he was driving us to…
Secure The Food Insecure
By Mickey Friedman November 29, 2018 I’ve been lucky enough to know some extraordinary people. People who have provided so much to so many: Linda Small, who brought affordable health care to our families; Frank Tortoriello, who created a home…
Feed The People
By Mickey Friedman May 6, 2018 I learned about the pride of the poor from my parents who grew up with nothing. It was understood I would work as soon as I could legally find a job, to do my…