Birthday gals give back

Birthday gal Linda Mendeloff (pictured, center, with birthday hat) celebrated her 70th by organizing a volunteer event benefiting Second Servings of Houston. Second Servings retrieves unsold fresh foods from events and local grocery stores including Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods Market, Kroger, and Oak Farms Dairy and delivers to nonprofit organizations that feed people in need. The day was extra special because one of the volunteers, Linda’s mom and birthday twin Sylvia Schultz, was celebrating her 95th birthday. Linda sponsored a “pop-up grocery store” event at Julia C. Hester House in the Fifth Ward and joined her mom and 50 of her friends and other family members to unload and arrange more than $20,000 worth of perishable groceries to feed members of the community. Once the food was organized, the birthday ladies and the other volunteers assisted 150 shoppers as they made their selections from the donated food.

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