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BELLOWS FALLS, Vt. — The Bellows Falls Opera House precocious hosted their yearly “Overflow The Opera House” nutrient and fundraising lawsuit to payment the section Our Place Drop-in Center, the unit braving done the rainy Saturday day to judge donations successful beforehand of the Opera House connected The Square.

Launched successful 1993 and located astatine 6 Island Street successful Bellows Falls, Our Place is simply a daytime drop-in halfway that offers assistance with nutrient and different indispensable needs successful a non-judgmental, safe, caring, and respectful atmosphere. They person provided meals and different essentials to radical successful Rockingham, Westminster, Walpole, New Hampshire, and the surrounding area. Their services see escaped meals, a nutrient pantry, societal work resources, and market transportation to seniors and the disabled.

“We person been doing this event, successful conjunction with the Bellows Falls Opera House, for 10 years now, and this is my ninth twelvemonth participating,” Amanda Reed said successful a caller interview. Reed is the Our Place Drop-In Center’s operations coordinator.

Because of the rising outgo of food, the Our Place unit suggested that currency donations would dispersed further than donating existent bags of food, simply due to the fact that they tin leverage their connections to bargain much nutrient with a currency donation than a idiosyncratic connected the thoroughfare tin bargain astatine a market store.

With the yearly “Overflow The Opera House” event, Our Place accepts donations by selling seats done the Bellows Falls Opera House container office. A $25 “seat purchase” volition really beryllium a donation that volition correspond a container of nutrient for a needy household successful the area.

“Every twelvemonth we ever capable up the seats. Chroma Technologies Corp. has been a immense portion of making definite the seats are filled, and they person been a portion of this lawsuit with america for 5 oregon six years now. This fundraiser is precise important to america because, astatine times, the nutrient slope is debased and this helps america done a mates of months.”

A unrecorded distant vigor broadcast of the lawsuit was hosted by Keene, N.H.’s KOOL FM, 106.7, and employees from section businesses Sonnax and Chrome Technology arrived with ample nutrient and currency donations. By the extremity of the time the skies had cleared, and the “Overflow The Opera House” fundraiser was a immense success, collecting implicit $7,000 and 1,500 pounds of food. The monetary donation astir doubled past year’s full of $4,400.

“I privation to accidental ‘thank you’ Fish, who has ever been determination to assistance america signifier this yearly event,” Reed added. “I besides privation to convey everyone who has supported america connected this day, and person helped hundreds of radical with nutrient insecurities.”

To larn more, oregon to marque a donation to the Our Place Drop-in Center, delight sojourn www.ourplacevermont.org, oregon telephone 802-463-2217. The Drop-in Center hours are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.