At the Food Bank
February 26, 2010 at 4:11 PM Leave a comment
Today was an incredibly busy day at the food bank. We were surmising as to why. End of the month when money can be scarce? A snow-less day (for a change), making it easier for people to get around? Couldn’t put our finger on it but we three volunteers were escorting people through without a break. One of the three intake workers told me she alone saw 20 families.
Unfortunately, though the number of people coming through was very high, the amount of food on the shelves was low. We were lucky today in that we had a wonderful variety of dairy products — cottage cheese, cream cheese, American cheese, Provolone and milk. But some of the basics, like canned vegetables, bread and frozen meat were almost gone — beef was gone.
Several churches in the area will be holding food drives in the coming weeks and the Postal Service holds its drive in May. Come the summer local farmers will donate things like herbs and onions and corn. By then though, we could be seeing more need than ever.
Sometimes it feels like we’re swimming uphill.
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