Nurses Mark 10 Years of Stocking Food Pantry for Jeannette City School Students

Trib Live: Longstanding support from nurses at Independence Health helps ensure Jeannette City School District students don’t go hungry when they aren’t in school buildings.

The nurses on Tuesday carried cereal, canned soup, fruit cups and other packaged food items into district schools for use in backpacks provided to students before they head home for the weekend. About 100 students participate in the program.

“If anything, I think it’s more of a need now than when it first started,” said Sheri Binda, counselor at the junior/senior high school.

It’s a project that nurses at all three Independence’s hospitals — Greensburg, Latrobe and Frick in Mt. Pleasant — have kept going for 10 years since it first started under the United Way. The task of drumming up donations rotates among nursing units at the three locations, said Wendy Reynolds, a registered nurse at Westmoreland Hospital.

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