Wed, 11/26/2008 - 6:48pm

Karma and guilt serve no constructive purpose.Now a days i just want to know where and to who my donations go.Most of my neighbors are deadbeats, with i phones and plasma tv's, playing x-box till 3am.I donated my money to the American cancer society this year,They have a better chance of curing that disease .

Wed, 11/26/2008 - 3:44pm

Maybe these people aren't on food stamps or welfare. I'm surprised at the responses. People are falling through the cracks, not in other countries but in this county, and we get negative about your neighbors? The economy is bad, and getting worse, so who might be in line at the food bank line next week? So why not give a little now as karma for later. As to the drop offs directly at St Barnabas, I work at those times, are there any other times? Maybe having more easily accesible drop offs might help everyone, I think this is a good idea.

Wed, 11/26/2008 - 1:00pm

How is it that we give them food stamps, welfare, section 8, and they still be starvin.

Wed, 11/26/2008 - 1:43am

i personally witnesed 2 men selling the food that they took from a pantry. this could have been distributed to a needy family, instead these lowlifes are using others charity to buy more booze or cigarettes. and to middle police please do something to keep these lowlifes from harrasing normal people at the shop-rite intersection. they hang around the area all day long. on 3 trips in recent weeks these guys have approached me coming and going from the shop-rite. thanks, happy holidays!

Tue, 11/25/2008 - 7:43pm

“There is a story told about a man who was stranded in his housed during a flood. A boat came to rescued him awhile he was standing on his doorstep, surrounded by water. But he waived the rescuer off, saying ‘God will rescue me!” The following day the water rose and another boat came to rescue the man now stuck on the upstairs balcony. He again refused help, shouting, ‘God will rescue me!’ Late the next day, he found himself sitting on the chimney, the waters swirling around him. A helicopter hovered overhead, an man shouting, ‘ Lets help you!’ But the man shouted back, ‘God will rescue me!’

As fate would have it, the water rose and the man drowned. He arrived in heaven in a not-so-good mood, complaining to Saint Peter, ‘ I expected you to rescue me!’

‘Frankly, I am surprised to see you here,’ Peter replied, ‘because we sent two boats and a helicopter to pick you up!’”

Tue, 11/25/2008 - 4:00pm

Why not drop your food donations off right at the food banks at St. Barnabas or Holy Spirit? That's what I do. Drop off at St. Barnabas is Monday from 10 am to 11 am. I don't know the times for Holy Spirit.