November 30, 2011 / Brooklyn news / Coney Island / BoroBeat
Greater New York Ice Hockey League assists Bensonhurst food pantry for Thanksgiving
By Shavana Abruzzo
Brooklyn Daily
Photo by Arthur De Gaeta
Thomas Neve (front left) accepts donations from Lisa Davie of the Greater New York Ice Hockey League, which collected food and dropped it off at the Abe Stark Skating Rink in Coney Island on Nov. 22.
Players and brass from the Greater New York Ice Hockey League got a jump on hunger by organizing a holiday food drive for Brooklynites in need, and then dropped off the fruits of their labors at the Abe Stark Skating Rink in Coney Island in time for Thanksgiving.
League President Matthew Davie and wife Lisa presented the donations to a grateful Thomas Neve, founder and executive director of Reaching Out Community Services — a cash-strapped food pantry in Bensonhurst which serves more than 4,000 clients across south Brooklyn — on Nov. 22.
Neve had some food for thought about the warm-hearted ice gladiators.
"It's well appreciated that there are groups out there that not only consider hunger an issue, but actually do something about it," said the pantry boss, who was moved by the scale of the drive. "They came with a van full of food — everything from soup to nuts."
Budget cuts have forced groups such as his to seek help wherever they can, added Neve.
"We're depending more on organizations and schools to help us not turn away people."
Reaching Out Community Services [7708 New Utrecht Ave. between 77th and 78th streets in Bensonhurst, (718) 373-4565], www.rcsprograms.org.
Reach reporter Shavana Abruzzo at sabruzzo@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260-2529.
Updated 11:48 am, January 16, 2019
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