Religion and faith: Muslim community joins food bank project

Center’s donation buys 7,000 pounds of spuds

The Muslim Community Center, 5100 N. Kevy Place, made a record donation to Peter Norback’s One Can A Week project.

For seven years, Norback has collected cans from his neighbors and financial donations from community organizations, which he uses to buy food for the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona.

A recent donation of $1,000 from the Muslim Community Center allowed Norback to purchase almost 7,000 pounds of potatoes. He averages about 1,000 pounds of donated food each week, give or take.

The community center connected with Norback about five months ago and has made smaller donations since then.

The center plans to continue making financial contributions to the food bank and will join several United Methodist churches on Sunday, Dec. 27 to pack 130,000 meals.

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Maqsood Ahmad, a board member at the center, said they have long given to charities and provided food for the hungry — specifically during Ramadan and among refugee communities — but wanted to do more to feed the community.

“We just realized the (number of) people we are reaching is not sufficient, so at this point, we need to do more,” Ahmad said.

Grace St. Paul’s hosts New Year’s Eve service

Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 2331 E. Adams St., will host a meditative service at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 31.

For more information about the service, titled “Chants for Peace,” visit gsptucson.org or call 327-6857.