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New food pantry opens in Riverhead

By Vera Chinese

COURTESY PHOTO | (from left)Michael Stoltz, Executive Director and Tara Larkin Fredericks, Director of Special Projects for Clubhouse of Suffolk; Randi Shubin Dresner, President & CEO of Island Harvest; John Lynch, CEO, and Joanne Massimo, Assistant Director of Suffolk County United Veterans; and Cinthia DelRosario, Agency Relations Coordinator of Island Harvest.

A new Riverhead food pantry celebrated its grand opening Friday.

The food pantry is operated by Clubhouse of Suffolk’s Synergy Center, a not-for-profit mental health organization serving adults in the community with mental illness

The pantry is open to all members of the community with a concentration on veteran outreach.

Helping Hands of the East End is located at Clubhouse of Suffolk’s Synergy Center at 1380 Roanoke Avenue. It is open every Friday from 2:00pm-6:00pm. The pantry accepts food donations of non-perishable items Monday through Friday 9am to 4pm. Frozen food products are accepted by calling (631) 471-7242 ext 1327.

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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