Once a month the Food Bank welcomes individuals to their warehouse and loads up a grocery cart of food and wheels it out to their car or church van. The day we were there an estimated 450 people were served from 9-11:45 am!
There were all manner of grateful recipients, many originally from eastern Europe, and smiles were plentiful as staples and even a few cupcakes, filled their carts.
Our role was to be paired with a recipient and walk their cart through the "buffet" of options, lots of vegetables especially, and then out to their car. We might have only been "cart pushers" but we could tell we were delivering a lot more than just food...
Thanks again to Cathy Poor '97 and Kam Tang, Paul Garaud '02 and Tina Schweizer, and Lizzie Rosenberger '03 who was in from NYC for the weekend and joined our outing. Old man John Knight '83 helped organize, supervise and advertise...
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