BIG SHOULDERS FUND TO DISTRIBUTE 10,000 MEALS TO NORTHWEST INDIANA FAMILIES THIS FATHER’S DAY

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Accessibility to food continues to be a challenge for families impacted by COVID-19. To help relieve this burden, Big Shoulders Fund will be distributing 10,000 meals to families in need in honor of Father’s Day, ensuring that families in these communities can share a hot meal together to celebrate the holiday. Meals will be provided by local restaurant and food service partners and distributed at thirteen locations in Northwest Indiana. Since the start of Big Shoulders Fund’s COVID-19 relief efforts, they have distributed more than 2,250 meals to families in need at Aquinas Catholic School in Northwest Indiana in collaboration with community restaurant partner Veteran’s Café.

Saturday’s meal distribution is made possible thanks to a generous donation from Bruce White, Founder and Chairman of Merrillville, Indiana-based White Lodging, and his wife Beth, who are both long-time supporters of Big Shoulders Fund. The Bruce and Beth White Family Foundation funded the expansion of Big Shoulders Fund’s programming to 20 schools in the Catholic Diocese of Gary in the fall of 2019.

WHEN:             Saturday, June 20, 2020 12 -2 pm

WHERE:          

Holy Angels Cathedral School

640 Tyler St. (Gary)

  • Meal Distribution 12 – 2 pm
    • Restaurant/Food Service Partner: White Lodging School of Hospitality & Tourism Management at Purdue Northwest

Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Northwest Indiana

2700 W. 19th Ave. (Gary)

  • Meal Distribution 12 – 2 pm
  • Restaurant/Food Service Partner: White Lodging School of Hospitality & Tourism Management at Purdue Northwest

Community HealthNet + Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Northwest Indiana

6100 Broadway (Merrillville)

  • Meal Distribution 12 – 2 pm
  • Restaurant/Food Service Partner: Veteran’s Café and Grill (Merrillville, IN)

Additional Meal Distribution Sites serving 12 – 2 pm

  • St. John the Baptist School – 1844 Lincoln Avenue (Whiting)
  • Bishop Noll Institute – 1519 Hoffman St. (Hammond)
  • Purdue Northwest Campus – 2300 173rd (Hammond)
  • St. Casimir School – 4329 Cameron Ave. (Hammond)
  • St. John Bosco School – 1231 171st Pl. (Hammond)
  • Boys & Girls Club of NWI – 2009 138th St. (East Chicago)
  • Nativity of Our Savior School – 2929 Willowcreek Rd. (Portage)
  • Notre Dame School – 1000 Moore Rd. (Michigan City)
  • Queen of All Saints – 1715 E. Barker Ave. #5336 (Michigan City)