Ian Brennan, left, Andrew Grant, and Arizona Brennan make their food drive appeals Saturday outside Redner's Warehouse Market in Lower Pottsgrove.
POTTSTOWN PA – Ian Brennan, a Pottsgrove High School junior, and his friend at Spring-Ford High School, Andrew Grant, took time during the summer to attend a teen camp promoting volunteerism and leadership. Just a few months later, they and Brennan’s family members have put into action what the two learned about giving back to their communities.
Brennan, Grant, Brennan’s sister Arizona, other friends, and his parents, Michael and Elysia, were busy Saturday and Sunday (Nov. 6 and 7, 2010) soliciting food donations from shoppers at Redner’s Warehouse Market, Charlotte Street, Pottstown PA, to benefit the emergency food pantry of the Pottstown Cluster of Religious Communities. Both the store’s management and its customers were overwhelmingly supportive, Brennan said, as were other grocers and neighbors he’s contacted in recent weeks.
As a result, Elysia Brennan reported Monday (Nov. 8) by e-mail, Ian on Friday (Nov 12) will begin delivering more than 2,400 canned goods and other food items to the cluster’s doors at 137 Walnut St., Pottstown.
Ian and the cluster already had a good working relationship. The charitable organization is serving as the site of his senior project; he’s building a computer database to help the group work more efficiently.
Ian Brennan talks with a donor as his parents, at right, organize Redner's shoppers' contributions in a nearby cart.
While there, though, he couldn’t help but notice a growing need for food items, and heard of government cuts in the funding often used to buy that food. “I thought I could do something to help,” he said. That’s when he enlisted Andrew, and the two began their food drive.
Donations are constantly being accepted at the cluster, which is among Pottstown’s busiest sites for providing help to families with emergency needs. See a list of items it’s seeking, both for the pantry and its clothes closet, here.
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