Don't pick and choose charity

I'm writing in regard to several stories or advertisements for people to step up and donate items to the FISH food pantry in Carpentersville.

Of course, this is a great organization and there is a huge need for the pantry. The workers I have talked to or met are fantastic people and are doing great work. In the past I have donated many times.

The problem is does everyone who receives the free service really appreciate what they are getting?

Just last week I happened to be in the Meadowdale Shopping Center parking lot when I watched not one but several families who just received bags of groceries pick items out of the bags and throw them not in the garbage receptacle across the lot but in the parking lot, on the ground.

It's hard to see people who are being helped act so less caring than those around them who are in fact very caring. The Meadowdale Shopping Center provides space for the operation, those who volunteer and those who donate.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just doing what's right.

Matt Schacht

Elgin