Good Shepard supports food pantries

As yet another way to do good for the communities it serves, Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital is donating much-needed supplies to nine area food pantries and shelters in advance of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Good Shepherd, Barrington, is delivering approximately 1,500 pounds of turkey, 500 pounds of smoked ham and 720 pounds of vegetarian lasagna, divided among these townships and social service organizations: McHenry County PADS shelter, Interfaith Food Pantry of Crystal Lake, Cary Food Pantry, Lake in the Hills, Huntley and Grafton Township pantry, Marengo Food Pantry, Wauconda-Island Lake Food Pantry, Lake Zurich-Ela Township Food Pantry, Cuba Township Food Pantry, Barrington Township Food Pantry.

"Now more than ever, people are hurting," said Rev. Fred Rajan, Good Shepherd's vice president of mission & spiritual care. "The housing crisis, the economic uncertainty, and soaring food and energy costs - it all adds up to (more people in) need. We have a responsibility, I think, to help if we can," added Rajan, a Cary resident. "We may not know who needs to turn to food pantries for help, but then again, they may just as easily be our friends and neighbors."