All You Need is Love (and Food)… Again

Second-annual event will raise money and canned goods for the homeless. A splendid time is guaranteed for all.

Last year’s All You Need is Love (And Food) event went so well, organizers decided to do it again. Dozens of Cleveland-area musicians will take the stage at the Lakewood Masonic Temple to perform music of the Beatles, from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday — presented by the Trinity Lakewood Community Outreach organization. The Lakewood organization provides hundreds of hot meals, a produce distribution (distributing about 15,000 pounds of food in the summer), community gardens and community-based health and wellness programs to Lakewood’s neediest residents. “We’re all coming together for hunger relief,” said event organizer and TLCO advisory committee member Jason Weiner. “It’s a theme for the kind of community that we all want to be a part of.”  …

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Rally in the Alley Event Slated for Today

Event, to raise money for Caring Continues Fund and Trinity Lakewood Community Outreach, will take place behind Around the Corner.

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All You Need is Love (and Food)

Beatles-themed fundraiser set for Saturday night at the Lakewood Masonic Temple. A splendid time is guaranteed for all.

  Howard Moore never intended to be homeless. The 69-year-old Lakewood resident also never imagined that he’d wait in line for community meals.  Things started get tough for Moore in 2006, when his partner of 47 years died unexpectedly. He found himself in financial straits.  “I’ve never been so lonely in my life,” he remembers. “Being homeless and going to community meals can be a humiliating experience. It’s never something I could have imagined would have happened to me.”  Moore isn’t alone. He is one of hundreds of Lakewood residents who rely on community meals to get by. Moore is also among those who will benefit from this Saturday's All You Need is Love (and Food) event at the Lakewood Masonic Temple. All You Need is Love (and Food) …

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Lakewood Organization Distributes 5.5 Tons of Food Saturday

Produce distribution, hot meal and dental clinic serve hundreds despite declining unemployment.

Women in babushkas and hijabs and men in VFW hats peppered a line of hundreds of people Saturday at Trinity Lutheran Church for a hot meal, children’s dental clinic and produce distribution. Organizer Jason Weiner said Trinity Lakewood Community Outreach — the group he helped found, that puts on the monthly event — distributed more than 11,000 pounds of fresh produce to 214 households, reaching an estimated 1,000 people. “It’s nice to know that so many people are going to have fresh produce for Thanksgiving,” Weiner said. Unfortunately, that’s a luxury many Americans don’t have. In 2010, 48.8 million Americans lived in food-insecure households, meaning one or more members of a household didn’t have access to enough food for a healthy, …

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More Than 300 People Show Up for Food Distribution

Crowd stretches around the block to get food and fresh produce at Trinity Lakewood Community Outreach's first food pick-up of the summer.

More than 300 people waited in a line that stretched down Detroit and Hall avenues Saturday morning for Trinity Lakewood Community Outreach's first food pick-up of the summer. Many of those folks crowded the basement of the Trinity Lutheran Church, following the food pick-up for a hot meal. TLCO hosts four meals each month, including Third Saturday.

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