Channel 7, KGO Radio and Macy's collect a record amount of food during the one-day "SHARE YOUR HOLIDAY" Food Drive.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 22, 1994--In the spirit of the holidays, Bay Area residents pulled together to collect more than 1,378,000 pounds of food and $261,000 in cash donations for the hungry during Channel's 7 annual "SHARE YOUR HOLIDAY" Food Drive. This more than doubles the amount of food collected during last year's drive. Channel 7 News, KGO KGO Knight Grand Officer Radio and Macy's Macy's formerly R.H. Macy & Co., Inc. Major U.S. department-store chain. Its former flagship, an 11-story store that occupies a city block in New York City's Herald Square, was for many years the largest single store in the country. Rowland H. sponsored this one-day food drive during which TV and radio personalities broadcast live from Macy's stores across the Bay Area. "Channel 7 would like to thank entire Bay Area community for giving so generously this year," said Director of Program Services John Moczulski. "At a time when subsidies for food programs are being dramatically reduced," he said, "it is heartwarming heart·warm·ing or heart-warm·ing adj. 1. Causing gladness and pleasure. 2. Eliciting sympathy and tender feelings: a heartwarming tale. Adj. 1. to have so many people reach out to feed the hungry." The thousands of individual contributions, coupled with the commitment of major Bay Area corporations, will go a long way toward sustaining the many people who are served by area food banks. These banks operate as clearinghouses for food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters and residential programs within their county. On average, more than 300,000 people are served by Bay Area food banks each month. Last year, KGO-TV's second annual food drive raised over 500,000 pounds of food and more than $150,000 in cash donations. For information about next year's "SHARE YOUR HOLIDAY" Food Drive, call the Channel 7 production offices at 415/954-7901. Milt Weiss is news director, Lisa Scimens is executive producer, Jill Coughlan is producer and Moczulski is director of program services. Jim Topping is president and general manager of KGO-TV KGO-TV ("ABC7") is an owned-and-operated television station of The Walt Disney Company-owned ABC, based in San Francisco, California. Its studios are located in the ABC Broadcast Center on Front and Vallejo streets in downtown San Francisco, while its transmitter is , the Capital Cities/ABC Inc.-owned television station in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . CONTACT: KGO-TV, San Francisco Karen Karen Any member of a variety of tribal peoples of southern Myanmar (Burma). Constituting the second largest minority in Myanmar, the Karen are not a unitary group in any ethnic sense, as they differ among themselves linguistically, religiously, and economically. Prudent, 415/954-7974 |
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