It was a beautiful spring day for a stroll on Sunday.

Fifty registrants and their loved ones took a walk in downtown Tamaqua, starting at the St. Luke's Family Practice on South Railroad Street to help fight hunger in Tamaqua and surrounding communities.The walk was about a mile long, and lent itself to a healthy exercise to be done with friends and family while helping charitable work.The Tamaqua Area Faith Fellowship Network, an affiliate of Tamaqua Area Community Partnership consisting of local churches and volunteers, held the second Tamaqua Hunger Weekend in an effort to provide subsidy to the local food pantry and service organizations which help families in need in the area.This year the walk raised about $1,900 along with some other food donations.Paul Dodson, the Hunger Walk organizer, hopes to be able to hold a third hunger walk next year.For more information on the work of TAFFN or to get involved, visit

www.taffn.org.