The Gloucester Democratic City Committee will honor the memory of Martin Luther King with a day of service on Saturday, January 13, 2024 from 9am – 3pm. As we have done in past years, we will stand outside Gloucester’s Market Basket and urge shoppers to donate non-perishable food, which we will sort and pack and load into the Open Door’s truck. Help us “Catch a Ton of Tuna” and fill that truck!
The Open Door is our local food pantry, that distributes nutritious food on Cape Ann and in adjoining towns: food deliveries, a mobile market; holiday baskets, grocery orders to be picked up at their facility on Emerson Ave. including staples like diapers and pet food. As the cold weather pushes families into the cruel “heat or eat” dilemma, the Open Door’s work is more critical than ever. In addition to providing food, they help to connect their clients with housing, job training, and medical care.
So, when you are out at Market Basket on January 13, 2024, please drop a donation in the box! Monetary donations to The Open Door are also welcome. The GDCC is honored to help the Open Door do its essential work, and we are glad to have the amazing support from the Cape Ann community to help make that happen every year. Please sign up using this link: http://gloucesterdemocrats.foodpantry.volunteerhub.com/
And please enjoy these images from MLK Days of Service from years past!
Public Service Chair, Mary Kingsley, would like to remind all of our followers and friends that we are still collecting goods for The North Shore Health Project/One Stop program, focusing on supporting housing-insecure folks in our community.
Join us for our last meeting before September where we welcome Kate Ranta to talk about gun control, domestic gun violence, and what we can do to provide a safer world for our kids.
father twice in front of her then 4-year-old son. Everyone survived. Her attempted murderer was found guilty in 2017 on all five counts against him and sentenced to 60 years in prison. Kate now elevates her story for activism and awareness around violence against women–especially the deadly intersection between abuse and guns. She has been a gun violence prevention activist for many years. She is a speaker and marketing professional who has appeared in documentary films, in national media, and on expert panels. She is the author of the book “Killing Kate: A Story of Turning Abuse and Tragedy into Transformation and Triumph.” Kate is the mother of a teenage son. 