ADVISORY/Mayor Menino to Help Boston's Architectural Community Kick-Off CANSTRUCTION and Can Share to Benefit the Greater Boston Food Bank.

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ADVISORY...for Mon. (Oct. 22)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Three-Week Effort Expected to Generate Significant Amounts of Food

to Help Feed the Hungry in Eastern Massachusetts 

WHAT:       Press conference to launch the 15th annual Can Share Food
            Drive and open the CANSTRUCTION(R) exhibit to be held
            today, Monday, October 22 at 10:30 a.m. at the Museum of
            Science, Boston. Mayor Menino, Catherine D'Amato,
            president and CEO of The Greater Boston Food Bank, David
            Ellis, president and director of the Museum of Science,
            Boston, and Jeffery R. Davis, president of Tappe
            Associates will kick off CANSTRUCTION and Can Share, both
            three-week programs benefit The Greater Boston Food Bank.

            Twenty-two Boston-based design and construction firms will
            participate in the 6th annual CANSTRUCTION event, a
            national community service project where architects,
            engineers and students compete to design and build
            gigantic 800 cubic foot structures made out of canned and
            boxed food in an effort to construct a world without
            hunger. The three-week event will be held in conjunction
            with Mayor Menino's Can Share food drive, with all food
            from both events donated to The Greater Boston Food Bank.

            During this three-week event, the public will be able to
            view the 22 canned and boxed-food sculptures at the Museum
            of Science, Boston. On November 2, 3, and 4, visitors can
            also donate cans of food at the Museum as part of Mayor
            Menino's Can Share Food Drive and receive $4 off admission
            to the Museum's Exhibit Halls. Corporate sponsors for this
            year's event are Prince Pasta and Peabody Office
            Furniture. Prince has committed to donating one truckload,
            equivalent to 40,000 lbs., of pasta to CANSTRUCTION.

WHEN:       Monday, October 22, 2001 at 10:30 am

WHERE:      Museum of Science
            Boston, MA

CONTACT:    For additional information visit www.mos.org. To arrange
            media interviews, please contact Sasha Nostrand at
            978/468-0511 or via cell at 978/808-3413.

B-ROLL WILL BE AVAILABLE ONSITE AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE