On Sunday 10/13 I
was part of a group of about 40-50 that participated in what I believe was the
fourth annual Temple Sinai Hike Against Hunger. As always it involved members
of Temple dragging themselves up Mt. Philo after pledging – or in the case of
the kids getting grownups to pledge – financial donations to the Hunger Free
Vermont project. As you know if you’ve been there Mt. Philo is an ideal hike
for the casual or infrequent exerciser – just enough to make you breath hard,
not enough to hurt you. This along with the unbelievably good weather we had
for the event on Sunday – it was a Vermont Life calendar photo-worthy day – no
doubt accounts for the many people, wedding parties and dogs we happily shared
the mountain with.
Anyhow, this year the Hike was the joint project of Temple
Sinai’s Social Action Committee, the Young Judea high school youth group in
which our kids participate with other area Young Judeans, and the TS
Brotherhood. Also three pugs, who raised the overall cuteness factor of the TS
group considerably. The Social Action Committee paid for the food, Young Judea
bought the food (which was strictly kosher as all YJ events are) and the
Brotherhood supplied the grills and labor to cook the food. There was certainly
no hunger on the mountain that day, as we had enough to share with some of the
fellow non-TS hikers, which means that if you thought of coming but did not
because you thought there would not be enough food you
erred.
Thanks go to the
organizers of this consistently wonderful project: Doug Kallen and the SA
committee, Young Judea and their adult guide and mentor (and TS member) Gail
Issenberg, and fearless leader of the Brotherhood Steve Greenfield. Hopefully
we’ll see you on an equally wonderful day next fall.
Bruce Hicken
