SEYMOUR — For the second time in a month, the Klarides sisters arranged a free fruit and vegetable giveaway in the Naugatuck Valley.
On Monday, 880 boxes containing carrots, cucumbers, onions, peppers, butternut squash, oranges and apples were given to Naugatuck Valley residents and the five Valley food banks.
Seymour First Selectman W. Kurt Miller directed traffic into and out of the Community Center on Pine Street as cars lined up to receive the boxes.
“Times are hard,” said Doreen Pysz of Shelton. “We’re feeding five people on fixed incomes and supermarket prices keep going up.”
Both Pysz and her sister received boxes of food.
“Are you going to have one in Shelton?” Pysz asked the organizers.
“I wish we could do more,” said state Rep. Nicole Klarides-Ditria, R-Seymour. “But I don’t expect to. This is probably the last one.”
Other participants who help load the boxes into vehicles included state Reps Themis Klarides, R-Derby, and Ben McGorty, R-Shelton; Derby Mayor Richard Dziekan; a group of Seymour Police officers and members of the Department of Public Works.
“I’m glad to be able to help,” McGorty said. “My heart goes out to those who are still out of work. We all need to appreciate the generosity of people who are donating these foods to help others.”
The Seymour cops were led by Commanders Mike Fappiano, Thomas Scharf and Mike Santanelli and included Officers Dave Butler, Pat Dempsey, Dave Gallo, Kris Marra, Tim Martin and Joh Oczkowski. Also assisting were Malia McCool, an administrative assistant to Miller, Seymour’s first selectman; John Lombardo, of Bushi Ban Martial Arts & Fitness; Molly Adamo, a Stonehill College political science major and Cade Klarides-Ditria, Nicole’s son.
Lombardo spent much of his time separating the assortment of vegetables and fruits and loading them into the giveaway boxes.
“It’s been a consistent flow,” said Klarides, the state house’s minority leader, who is not running for reelection this fall. “You do what you can to help people.”
The distribution was arranged through the U.S. Department of Agriculture F2F food program. The amount of fruits and vegetables and their delivery to the Seymour Community Center was coordinated by the Friendly Hands Food Bank of Torrington Director Karen Thomas and Ralph DelBuono of Roma’s Restaurant in Oakville.
“The Farmers to Family initiative is making a huge difference for thousands of families in Connecticut,” Klarides said.
Margo Martin of Derby agreed. She received one of the 1,600 boxes distributed in July at Derby High School.
On Monday, she obtained a box for herself and “an elderly neighbor who does not drive.”
“I’m on disability and it’s tough making ends meet now,” she said.
This time she got an extra helping of jalapeno peppers.
“I love them,” she said. “I put them in salads, in nachos, on everything.”
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