Menudo Daily News Food Drive Interview

Hundreds of intense screaming, camera-toting girls crowded the Daily News lobby Tuesday for a good cause.

For them, it was to meet the Latin boy band Menudo.

For New Yorkers, it was the hundreds of canned goods they brought for the Daily News feed-the-hungry campaign.

Norma Proano brought 12 cans as she accompanied daughter, Valerie, 15, an Archbishop Molloy High School student, who has been to 16 Menudo events.

"She's a good student - she gets good marks," said Norma. "So I took her to see them on her 15th birthday, and now we're here."

Proano, an export-import manager, said she read about Menudo's imminent appearance in the Daily News. Her daughter saw it on YouTube.

The appearance by the hot musical group is one of the highlights of the Daily News "Readers Care to Feed the Hungry" food drive.

Meantime, about 350 families came to the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Center on 134th St. to receive turkey meals, courtesy of the Archdiocese of New York.

"Times seem as though they're going to be less than good for awhile," said Edward Cardinal Egan, who helped distribute meals. "New York's going to pull together, get through this and be better than ever."

Most of the food was donated by the Rusty Staub Foundation - the former Met himself donned a red apron to help hand out the food - along with the Mrs. Florence D'Urso and The Camillo J. D'Urso Fund for the Hungry and Homeless of the New York Archdiocese and Mark D'Urso.

At the Daily News, the price of admission to see Menudo was a donation of canned food.

Nikita Carmichael and Iman McDonnaugh, both 17, came all the way from Long Island Lutheran High School in Brookville, L.I.

"We had a half-day today," said Nikita. "We just had to see 'em. Their music is amazing."

Kaity Gonzalez, 15, came with her mother from East Stroudsburg, Pa., after afternoon classes were canceled because of a Pocono snowstorm.

"They're so humble, they're so down to earth," she said of Menudo. "Besides it was a good cause."

http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2008/11/26/2008-11-26_menudo_has_cando_spir...

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[m3nud0l0v3r01]

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[valuhhhreee232]

me and my mom are in the article

lol

this video is so cutee(:

and yeahh kristy we came really late

hahaha

[kmv7789]

aw thats so nice. lol :)

some of those people i didnt even see. like katy! she were im from. That was so nice of them. i came late i guess. lol

[zac4efron]

I LUV THEM SO CUTE!