Record-breaking day for CROP Hunger Walk
May 18, 2011
By Staff
The Snoqualmie Valley’s annual CROP Hunger Walk had its most successful event ever May 15.
Patty Baker, the pastor at St. Clare’s Episcopal Church in Snoqualmie and one of the organizers of the walk, wrote in an email that nearly $8,000 had been collected, with about $2,000 going to the Mount Si Helping Hand Food Bank.
Participants in the annual CROP Hunger Walk begin their stroll in the middle of a rainstorm. Contributed
More than 150 people participated in the walk. The amount to the food bank and the number of participants set new records for the walk, Baker wrote.
“Last year’s totals were about 100 walkers and $5,700 total raised,” she wrote. “Given the very rainy day and the economic situation we are in, I think this is wonderful news.”
What doesn’t go to the food bank will go to Church World Service, an international relief organization that supports and helps organize CROP Hunger Walks around the world.
In Washington state, nine CROP Hunger Walks have been scheduled for this spring, with the next one happening in Leavenworth on May 22. Twelve walks happened in Washington in September and October, according to www.churchworldservice.org.
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