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Post by FU73 on Apr 28, 2020 11:45:01 GMT -5
Fairfield University helps community during coronavirus Fairfield University’s officials say they have been staying true to its Jesuit mission, with faculty, staff and students continuing to provide assistance to those in need during unprecedented times. So when the Connecticut Food Bank recently reached out for a monetary donation, Director of Alumni Relations Janet Canepa spoke with Assistant Vice President Jim Fitzpatrick and Fairfield’s General Manager of Dining Services, Duane Gornicki, to see what could be done. Gornicki oversees the university's emergency food supply, a stockpile of three days worth of food for the 3,000 students that typically live on campus. The stockpile needs to be continuously rotated. The university described what happened next: “When the semester came to an abrupt halt, I had no place to utilize it,” Gornicki said. “We have a lot of expirations that were coming up in May, June, July and we were going to lose the food. This was an opportunity to help.”.... The university has also been donating sandwiches to the COVID-19 wings of Bridgeport and St. Vincent’s hospitals all April. Claudio Santos, an employee at Fairfield who had been making and delivering the sandwiches, said the university delivers 50 every Tuesday to Bridgeport hospital and 75 every Friday to St. Vincent’s..... Claudio Sanfrancesco prepares chicken parmesan sandwiches in the kitchen at The Levee, a sports bar on the campus of Fairfield University. While the campus has been closed, Sanfranceso has been making hot meals and delivering them to area hospitals twice a week.Read more: www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/news/article/Fairfield-University-helps-community-during-15223379.php#photo-19335314
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