Connect Montgomery is collaborating with a volunteer team of neighbors from the Montgomery Woods neighborhood  who have been working on an opportunity to help assist their community neighbors and strengthen the Montgomery community. It’s a donor program structured to make it easy for others to help.

The program is called Montgomery Food Share and they have partnered with the Freestore Foodbank to create a way to help ensure that the Freestore has an uninterrupted supply of food and personal items to give to those in need. People in Montgomery often use the Freestore to get food and essential items, either on a temporary or ongoing basis.

Residents of Montgomery Woods are currently receiving more information about the program from neighborhood volunteers. Outreach to other neighborhood associations, community groups and local businesses will be ongoing, but will commence after Montgomery Woods’ first pick-up date on June 1.

How does it work? Montgomery Food Share is asking households to buy an additional food item or two when going to the grocery store. Montgomery Food Share will provide special bags to put the food in, and, on the first Saturday of even numbered months, Montgomery Food Share will pick up the bags and deliver them to the Freestore.

For more information, contact the Montgomery Food Share Coordinator, Wendy New, at foodshare@cinci.rr.com or Faith Lynch with the City of Montgomery and Connect Montgomery at flynch@ci.montgomery.oh.us or 792-8358.

Additional information may be found on https://www.facebook.com/Montgomery.Food.Share or http://connectmontgomery.org/montgomery-food-share