The in-person 2024 Schoharie County Aggie Scott Memorial CROP Hunger Walk will start and end at Cobleskill United Methodist Church on Sunday, May 5.
Registration will start at 1:15pm. A short program will begin at 1:30pm with the Walk following.
The short program will honor the late Aggie Scott and Lee Empie for their amazing fundraising skills for past CROP Hunger Walks.
These two senior citizens became local CROP Hunger Walk legends in their own lifetimes for their fundraising efforts to fight hunger locally and worldwide.
Twenty-five percent of all money raised will stay in Schoharie County. Food pantries at the local Catholic Charities office and Cobleskill United Methodist Church will each keep 10 percent of all money raised.
The food pantry at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Richmondville will keep five percent.
The rest of the money will go to Church World Service in Indiana to fight hunger in the USA and countries around the world.
Every walker who turns in a donation envelope on May 5 will get a 2024 CROP Hunger Walk tee shirt and at least one never-worn “vintage” tee shirt from a past CROP Hunger Walk.
The Walk will cover about 2.5 miles north of Main Street.
Again this year the local Walk will be either in-person in Cobleskill or virtual anywhere.
In a virtual CROP Hunger Walk the participant can walk any distance any time and anywhere before May 5.
Each virtual walker, however, must turn in the donation envelope by 1:30pm at the Methodist church to pick up the two CROP tee shirts on CROP Hunger Walk Sunday.
A virtual walker can go any distance. No one from the planning committee will ask a walker about the distance covered.
Members of the local Schoharie County Aggie Scott Memorial CROP Hunger Walk planning team are Tracy Smith, Becky Leggieri and John Jarvis.
For more information call (518)234-2933.