Photo by Westwood Minute/Darlene Wong Cancell. Participants in the Interfaith Mini Walk for Hunger included members of houses of faith and residents from Westwood and beyond.
Despite a grey sky and lightly falling rain, about fifty community members gathered to walk through the neighborhood around Westwood's Temple Beth David, participating the 13th annual Interfaith Mini Walk for Hunger, a fundraiser to benefit Project Bread, the statewide anti-hunger organization.
Event co-organizers Connie Rizoli and Dr. Jeff Greenwald of Temple Beth David had announced that the walk would go on, rain or shine, because the problem of hunger doesn't stop with a change in the weather.
The crowd was reduced from the previous year, but by the beginning of the event, dedicated members of the community had already raised over $10,000 for the cause of addressing food insecurity. A final tabulation of the donations had not yet been made at the end of the event, as donations have continued to come in.
Article 21, is not premature, but long overdue. Westwood's failure to change its almost exclusively single-family zoning of residential neighborhoods is already fundamentally altering the character of the town.
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