Community Cooks Celebrates Riverside Day Treatment

Join Community Cooks corps of 500 volunteers as they rattle the pots ‘n’
pans on Sunday, Oct. 6 at the Exchange Conference Center to celebrate
the 23 community agencies that deliver meals to our vulnerable neighbors.

The money raised at the 5 p.m. fund-raiser on Boston’s Fish
Pier will help Community Cooks -- which began two decades ago as a group of
neighbors cooking meals for the Somerville
Homeless Coalition -- continue its mission as well as widen its geographic
reach into more towns in the commonwealth.

Some of the underserved groups that
benefit from this cooking cause include homeless adults and children, women in
crisis, at-risk youth, low-income seniors and people struggling with addiction
or mental and physical disabilities.

During the past fiscal year,
22,800 people, including those from Riverside Day Treatment in Newton, were served home cooked meals prepared by Community Cooks
volunteers.

Ellen Parker, executive director of Project Bread – The Walk for Hunger,
and state Rep. Marjorie Decker
(D-Cambridge) will both address the group during the evening.