ADVISORY/Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey to Help Inspect and Sort Food for The Hungry During Her Visit to the Greater Boston Food Bank.

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ADVISORY...Thursday (June 3)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

400 Volunteers are Expected to Sort the Equivalent of 85,000 Meals

During this Week-long Food Sorting Competition in Observance of National Hunger Awareness Day Thursday, June 3, 2004

WHO:    Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey will visit The Greater Boston
        Food Bank on Thursday, June 3rd at 1:30 p.m. to sort food with
        employees from Tufts Health Plan and Blue Cross Blue Shield of
        Massachusetts. Lieutenant Governor Healey's visit is on
        National Hunger Awareness Day, part of a national call for
        hunger awareness. The food that Lieutenant Governor Healey and
        the volunteers sort will be donated to families throughout
        eastern Massachusetts - including some of the 173,000 children
        who are at-risk of going to bed hungry on any given day during
        the summer.

        "We are thrilled that the Lieutenant Governor and all of this
        week's volunteers will help us focus on hungry children. As
        school ends - and with it school breakfast and lunch - many
        children face summers where access to the food they need is
        uncertain," commented Catherine D'Amato, president and CEO of
        The Greater Boston Food Bank.

        "The issue of hunger is a silent epidemic, and I applaud the
        efforts of The Greater Boston Food Bank and the hundreds of
        volunteers here this week who are actively working to solve
        the issue of hunger," said Lieutenant Governor Healey. "I
        encourage everyone in the state to get involved."

        EDITOR'S NOTE: Lieutenant Governor Healey and Catherine
        D'Amato, president and CEO of The Greater Boston Food Bank
        will be available for a photo opportunity with the volunteers
        and will also be available for interviews on the state of
        child hunger in the Commonwealth.

WHERE:  The Greater Boston Food Bank
        99 Atkinson Street, Boston, MA 02118

WHEN:   Thursday, June 3, 2004 at 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

WHAT:   Nearly 400 volunteers, including many from area corporations
        will compete throughout the week to determine who is able to
        sort the most pounds of food. Companies participating include
        Health Advances, Horizon Management, Boston Works, Fidelity,
        Sovereign Bank, State Street, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Tufts
        Health Plan, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, John
        Hancock Life, Boston Cares, Cirelli Foods and Whole Foods.

The Greater Boston Food Bank distributes more than 20 million pounds of food annually to hundreds of pantries, soup kitchens and shelters in a dedicated partnership to feed the hungry in eastern Massachusetts. For more information please visit www.gbfb.org or call 617-427-5200.