"Facing shortfalls in emergency food supplies as well as increased demand at food pantries and soup kitchens, Hunger Task Force is asking Milwaukee donors to help its ability to feed the hungry this holiday season.
'Milwaukee’s poor are counting on us to help them at the holidays and through the winter, and we can’t let them down,' said Sherrie Tussler, Hunger Task Force executive director. 'We need Milwaukee’s help feeding the hungry—generous donors in this city have always come through for us when we’ve asked them, and this year is no exception.'
Hunger Task Force needs canned fruits and vegetables, breakfast cereal and infant formula. It also needs monetary donations to purchase and ship food. Hunger Task Force distributes all food to pantries, soup kitchens and homeless shelters 100 percent free of charge.
Donations of food and money can be made in person at Hunger Task Force’s warehouse -- located at 201 S. Hawley Ct., off the Hawley Road exit on I-94 near Miller Park -- from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Donations of money can be made through Hunger Task Force’s secure Web site, hungertaskforce.org, or by calling (414) 777-0483."
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
