Iron Gate raises record $170,000

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Iron Gate's annual fundraiser Cooking for a Cause brought out supporters who helped raise a record $170,000 in a year of record-breaking hunger.

Gala chairwoman Susan Fuller Palmer told the crowd of some 200 people at Metro Appliances & More that "Our theme 'We Feed Kids' touched your hearts and you responded with generosity and compassion."

"This is such an important step toward meeting our $800,000 budget. I can't thank you enough," said Iron Gate Executive Director Connie Cronley.

Last year, Iron Gate fed 201,000 people through the soup kitchen and distributed 10,400 emergency bags of groceries. In this bleak economy, an escalating number of hungry homeless and low-income people are coming to Iron Gate for the daily hot meal, for emergency groceries from the pantry and for healthy, kid-friendly snack packets, said Cronley.

"Every social service agency is stretched to the maximum and the Food Bank has a food shortage. This is why the gala revenues are critical to Iron Gate," she said.

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