A sleepless night of channel surfing has morphed into a philanthropic project that a local specialty food vendor hopes will bring relief to water-starved Newark, NJ.
“My brain wouldn’t settle down after a long day of work, and I couldn’t sleep,” Maple Craft Foods founder Dave Ackert told The Newtown Bee. “So I turned the news on, hoping the talking heads would do the job.”
Instead, Mr Ackert said he “saw a story which only made it harder to sleep.” That television report focused on the Newark water crisis and how one church was working to distribute water to home-bound residents and others without transportation to municipal water distribution sites.
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