Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Bobbing Along into August


Neelsville Presbyterian Church's Vacation Bible School collected food for us, so we deployed Brian, Cory and Tucker to pick it up, bring it to the pantry, and put it away. Then, while they were there, they got four boxes of food and delivered them! They are three hardworking guys!

Cindy went to visit some offices for rent along Wisteria Drive today... None of them quite fit the bill, but we might be getting closer. We really need to find space clients can visit. If at least half of them can come to pick up food, we will be able to help a lot more people! The problem with having pickups at a church has been that sometimes we aren't swamped, especially in the middle of the month. We line up some people to transport food and wait for pickup, but then the need isn't there that day. We just don't know ahead of time!

Monday, August 3, 2009

Clopper Mill Marlins Help!


Last week, some friends from the Clopper Mill Marlins swim team brought in food they collected during the summer swim season. They put it away, then packed twelve bags of nonperishable food and brought them over to Emergency Services, too! Thanks!!

We're buying a lot of food lately; donations are always down and we get our busiest in August and September. We've found that many of our clients don't have transportation, so they can't make it to pickups. Some can, though, and that helps relieve some of the backup. Our second pickup is tonight!