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	The Manchester Enterprise A Heritage Newspaper Weekly Publication

Local volunteers deliver the goods to homeless

Main Street Pizza and local attorneys donate their time to shelters

By Edward Freundl, Heritage Newspapers

PUBLISHED: January 4, 2007

As manager of Main Street Pizza & Grinders in Manchester, Becky Gregory is involved in something she hopes becomes a tradition.

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New Year's Eve 2006 marked the second year the local business made pizzas for homeless shelters in Ann Arbor.

"We did 25 on Sunday and we'll do another 60 on Wednesday," Gregory said.

She sacrificed part of her day off on Sunday to go into the restaurant's kitchen and prepare the pizzas that local attorneys Mark and Sue Gistinger paid for and delivered.

Gregory and the Gistingers are repeating what they did last year, making arrangements with the Robert J. Delonis Center, the Salvation Army, the Ken and Mariana Staples Family Center and SafeHouse Center, all Washtenaw County-based agencies that help needy individuals and families. A residence for veterans operated by the Salvation Army was added this year.

As a Marine Corps veteran who served in Vietnam, Gistinger knows that veterans frequently need assistance when coming back to civilian life. He and his wife, Sue, compensated the pizzeria, and picked up and delivered the pizzas Sunday to SafeHouse, Staples Center and the veterans' residence in Ann Arbor.

The remaining 60 pizzas were to be prepared and delivered Wednesday to the Delonis Center.

"They all have to be out by 4 p.m.," Gregory said Tuesday. "The timing, being so early in the day, really helped."

If anyone noticed unusual activity at Main Street Pizza on New Year's Eve, or an unusually large order going out its doors Wednesday, it was just one more example of the volunteer spirit in Manchester.

Edward Freundl is a reporter for Heritage Newspapers. He can be reached at 429-7380 or efreundl@heritage.com.