Tuesday, December 23, 2008

US Senator Dick Durbin visits Breakthrough

We were honored today when Kate Maher and her staff at the Greater Chicago Food Depository brought Senator Dick Durbin by for a visit to see the front line of food service and distribution. Senator Durbin has been influential in supporting a farm bill that will help to make more food resources available for communities like ours. The Senator ate lunch with us and stayed for more than an hour in spite of a ferocious blizzard. In this picture he is discussing the needs of the people served at Breakthrough with Breakthrough's Associate Director of Interim Housing, Cheron Massonburg.

2 comments:

Tom Neumann said...

Thank you,

Senator Durbin for coming to Breakthrough and spending time with them. Knowing that your time is so valuable and you spending it with them made their day.

Winnie R said...

Thank you for sharinng this