Parade Check Presentation
Bernie Adorino (left) and Chris Hoke (right) present check representing $1,170 in donations to Kitchen Manager Mike Pilat. The money was collected during the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

Adorino Construction Inc. and the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee has donated $1,170 to Mother Marianne’s West Side Kitchen. The money was collected during the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Utica on March 12 as part of their annual food drive for the soup kitchen.

Adorino Construction has been sponsoring the food drive for 13 years in partnership with the Parade Committee and Notre Dame Elementary School. Also, despite a snowstorm, they were able to collect a pickup truck load of food during the parade and during a food drive at Notre Dame Elementary.

(Read more about the food drive and how it all got started — In The Soup blog.)

PHOTO AT TOP: Food drive volunteers march in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. (Image from WKTV News Channel 2 coverage of the parade.)