Gary Haber
Two Patchogue food pantries will benefit from Halloween haunted houses being held this month.
On Thursday, Oct. 31 from 4 to 8 p.m., RISE Life Services will host a Little Monsters Mash Halloween party and haunted house to collect nonperishable food items for the food pantry at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.
And on Friday, Oct. 25 and Saturday, Oct. 26 from 7 to 10 p.m., William and Kimberly Hanlon will host a Death Roe Charity Haunt Walk at their home on Roe Avenue in Patchogue to collect monetary donations and nonperishable food items for the food pantry at Patchogue-Medford Youth & Community Services.
“It’s definitely going to make a big difference,” executive director Samantha Wood said. “We’ve been very low on food donations this past year and we’ve had a very high increase in clientele.”
Last year’s event hosted by the Hanlons raised $800 and brought in enough food to keep the food pantry stocked for a month, Wood said.
The most-needed items this year include peanut butter, jelly, pasta, rice, canned soup and tuna fish, she said.
At RISE Life Services, participants in the day-hab program for adults with developmental disabilities will build and staff the haunted house, which will be held at St. Paul’s Parish Hall, said JoAnn Vitale, RISE Life’s operations director of day services.
They are seeking donations of Halloween decorations for the haunted house.
About 16 adults participate in RISE Life’s day-hab program in Patchogue, in which participants volunteer at the Patchogue-Medford Library and at St. Paul’s food pantry, soup kitchen and thrift shop, Vitale said.
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