United Way campaigns
provide food, gifts

United Way of Monmouth County assisted in distributing 50 food boxes over the holiday season to three local food pantries, including the Samaritan Center in Englishtown. Each box held enough food to feed a family of four. The food boxes were a donation from New Jersey Natural Gas Co., Wall, which has donated hundreds of food boxes to the needy through organizations such as United Way.

The agency also provided 567 gifts to Monmouth County children, teens, adults and seniors through its first Snowflake Wishes gift-giving campaign. The gifts, including CD players, bicycles, coats, blankets, games and other items, were supplied by 18 different corporations at 21 locations throughout the county, and were distributed to 11 human service agencies, including Aslan Youth Ministries, Boys and Girls Club, Catholic Charities, Jewish Family & Children’s Services, Hispanic Affairs and Resource Center, and Monmouth Day Care Center. United Way plans to run the campaign annually. For more information, call United Way at (732) 938-5988.