Hunger Walk sees plenty of new faces
OBSERVER Photo by Shirley Ibach
Starting out on Central Avenue in Dunkirk, participants walked all the way around the SUNY Fredonia Campus and back.
There’s nothing better than a long walk to work up an appetite, but these walkers are feeding others afterward, not themselves. The fifth annual Hunger Walk, sponsored by the Dunkirk Fredonia Clergy Association, will benefit the Chautauqua County Rural Ministry food programs, as well as Doctors Without Borders. Along with repeat walkers from local churches, the Boys and Girls Club, Upward Bound students, Junior ROTC and the local community, the Hunger Walk Sunday saw many new faces. The Dunkirk Fredonia Clergy Association announced approximately 100 participants this year, “This is a great opportunity to help out those in need.” A big surprise, according to Rural Ministry Executive Director Kathleen Peterson, was the arrival of a busload of students from Job Corps. “I called them to see if they would be interested in joining and today they showed up with a bus full of 25 students, so we have lots of new faces for the walk this year,” Peterson said. The students and walkers colle
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