CROP Hunger Walk coming to Cobleskill on May 4

COBLESKILL — The annual Schoharie County Aggie Scott Memorial CROP Hunger Walk will start and end at Cobleskill United Methodist Church on Sunday, May 4.

The event will take place rain or shine.

Registration will start at 1:15. 

Twenty-five percent of all money raised this year will go to  Schoharie County food pantries at Catholic Charities, Cobleskill United Methodist Church and Schoharie United Presbyterian Church. The remaining 75% will go to Church World Service for use in both the United States and foreign countries.

On CROP Hunger Walk Sunday Pr. Anna Blinn Cole of Cobleskill United Methodist Church will  welcome the CROP Hunger Walkers. A short program will follow.

The Walk itself will start when Synod Authorized  Minister Bob Holt of Helderberg Evangelical Lutheran Church in Berne blesses the Walkers and sends them off on the 2.5-mile route.

Again this year the local Crop Hunger Walk will  be in-person or virtual.

In a Virtual CROP Hunger Walk participants can walk any distance, anywhere and anytime they choose before May 4.  Distance doesn't matter. 

Anyone who wants to know more about a Virtual CROP Hunger Walk  can call 518-234-2933.

Last year the local CROP Hunger Walk collected $14,085 on the day of the event. About $1,000 came in later.

Again this year Team Empie will return to support the fundraiser  that the late Lee Empie valued so highly.

In 2024 Team Empie turned in $7,245 on  CROP Hunger Walk Sunday.

Members of the SUNY Cobleskill Christian Fellowship will again support the event with their own Walk on April 23.

Members of the local CROP planning team are  Becky Leggieri, Treasurer; Tracy Smith, Registration Coordinator; and John Jarvis, Organizer. 

Anyone seeking more information about the local CROP Hunger Walk can call 518-234-2933.