The Ocean City Board of Realtors is pleased to announce it is kicking off its 2021 Community Service Projects, with the Food Is Love drive to collect food, including canned items, juice, microwaveable meals and more. Donations will be collected now through February 28, 2021 and will be used to “Share Some Love” during this Valentine month.
 

The Food Is Love, Share Some Love winter food drive will collect non-perishable food items, laundry and dish detergent, as well as Shoprite and ACME gift cards, which will be donated to the Ecumenical Food Cupboard in Ocean City, NJ, to provide for local needy families. 
 

New this year, there will be multiple drop off locations, to make it convenient for donations.
 

Please consider dropping off donations at the following real estate offices:

• Berkshire Hathaway Fox & Roach, 109 34th Street and 901 Simpson Ave.
• RE/MAX at The Shore, 3301 Bay Ave.
• Fox Real Estate, 894 Brighton by the Beach
• Monihan Realty, 717 Battersea Rd. and 3201 Central Ave.
• Long & Foster Real Estate, 14 East 9th Street

Here is a brief list of some of the items that the Food Cupboard has identified as in need of:

• Microwaveable Items: Hormel meals, rice and cup of soup
• Canned meats (tuna, corn beef hash, Spam, Dinty Moore stew, etc)
• Canned vegetables, cans of soup, cans of pork and beans, canned ravioli, spaghetti O’s
• Cereal and individual packets of dry milk
• Jelly, Peanut Butter, Juice, Jello/pudding mix, Crackers, Rice
• Liquid laundry detergent (48oz), Dish detergent, Paper towels, Toilet Paper
• Shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste, and Shop Rite or ACME gift cards

“Post holidays, the cupboard needs to be replenished. This has been an especially hard year for the food cupboard due to Covid and lack of donations. We encourage our REALTOR family, friends and neighbors to donate items for the Ecumenical Food Cupboard that will “Share Some Love” this winter for families in need” said Gloria Votta, Chair Community Services Committee, Ocean City Board of REALTORS.

For more information, please contact Vicki Heebner at 609-399-0128 or Vicki@ocbor.com