Community Corner
Cupcake Raffle Winner: No Time to Start a Diet
The Kings Park Farmers Market picks raffle winner, many benefit.
This past Sunday, the St. Vincent DePaul Society’s Food Pantry at in Kings Park, the ’s Greg Szurnicki Memorial Scholarship Fund, and Heather VanGostein all received something special.
For the past two weeks, the, in partnership with TLC's DC Cupcakes, has sold raffles to benefit the food pantry and scholarship fund. The prize raffled was a year of free cupcakes.
According to Aly Elish-Swartz and Ann Marie Nedall, co-chairs of the Kings Park Civic Association Farmer’s Market Committee, the raffle raised about $1,100.
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Sunday morning, representatives of the St. Vincent DePaul Society were present to receive a check for $604 from Sean Lehmann, Kings Park Civic Association president.
“This is absolutely marvelous,” said Adele Fiorentine, president of the St. Vincent DePaul Society’s Food Pantry at St. Joseph’s Church in Kings Park.
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“It’s beyond our dreams that we are being helped by this raffle,” said Fiorentine. “Especially in these hard times, where there are so many people in need, this is quite a windfall.”
VanGostein, a Kings Park resident, had only purchased the one ticket. It was all she needed.
“My husband is going to be ecstatic,” she said as raffle organizers pulled her ticket.
“I think this is great,” she said, “but it’s not a good time to start a diet,” said VanGostein.
The Kings Park Civic Association’s Greg Szurnicki Memorial Scholarship Fund will receive $500, which will be given to a Kings Park High School graduating senior in the spring of 2012.
“The civic association is thrilled to be able to help the food pantry,” said Lehmann. “We would like to thank Friends and Farmers, who run the market, and all the residents who purchased raffles.”
The market accepts food donations on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month. According to Elish-Swartz, more than 300 pounds of fresh produce and canned goods have been collected so far.
Matthew Nedall, a Farmer’s Market Committee member, summed it up this way, “Small towns can do big things.”
The Kings Park Farmer’s Market runs every Sunday, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the town municipal lot across from the firehouse on Main Street through November 20.
