'Hand to Hand' Group Reaches Out With Hot Meals for the Homeless
llene Leventhal, .1 Potomac homemaker, cut an unusual picture Sunday afternoon as she approached several homeless men huddled in blankets near the Federal Reserve Board building with a foil-wrapped package in each hand.</br></br>Slowly she circled the building, calling a friendly greeting to each man before getting close enough to hand out the food.</br></br>But no one was refusing the hot meals Sunday, as Leventhal and six friends made their weekly rounds of homeless enclaves on Virginia Avenue and Lafayette Square.</br></br>This week's menu: meatloaf, stuffed shells and macaroni casseroles freshly prepared in Potomac kitchens.</br></br>Everywhere Leventhal and her troupe parked their green and tan van. scores of men and women emerged from ramshackle piles of sleeping bags and old furniture to collect the food and rummage through Leventhal's Garfinckels, Britches and Lord & Taylor shopping bags for second-hand shirts, shorts and sneakers.