Cub Scouts Deliver

643 POUNDS!  Thank you, Cub Scouts

  It took Jim Schmitz two trips to deliver it all! 

Fine Amnesty

Independence Public Library

                 Amnesty for Fines benefits Food Pantry during the Feinstein Challenge

A donation for the Pantry erased library fines.

                                   649 pounds of food and $318.80

  

Loaded and ready to return to the Pantry

   Ridin' low, the rear bumper drug

                  as we pulled out of the Library parking lot!

Volunteer Opportunities

Expect this post to be updated periodically.

Deliveries:  Onloading, and storing.  Sometimes involves carrying things upstairs.
Truck times: Tuesdays   8 am
                     Fridays     9:30 ish

Friday   3-15-13
 small load

Tuesday   3-19-13

Friday   3-22-13

Tuesday   3-26-13

Friday    3-29-13
Food Bank Closed
just Walmart

Tuesday   4-1-13
Food Bank Closed
just Walmart



Counter help:  Actively interacting with the client, assisting in their choices, bagging, weighing and recording.

Back-up support:  Bringing up the appropriate cart, adding frozen items.  Refilling carts, recording weights, stocking shelves.  Carry-out, sometimes.

Bagging

Refilling a cart

 Donor support: Carrying in, weighing and recording donations.  Sorting and shelving donations

       

Loading donation from Independence Public Library

Other: Cleaning and snow removal.                Data entry, clerical.

              Packaging and labeling bulk items.

                                                                        

Hours: Monday thru Friday 9am - 3pm.

Empty volunteer time slots:

Monday - mornings and afternoons.

Tuesday - afternnoons

Wednesday - mornings and afternoons

Thursday - afternoons

Friday - afternoons

        

Special Volunteers - Beginning in March, we need a special someone who can stop at Kwik Trip in Jesup to pick up donations twice a week.  If you are traveling between Independence and Jesup regularly, would you consider helping us out?

Donor Spotlight

St. John's Church, Independence                                  

Faithful Donations
delivered by
Mike Smock

Service with a smile!

and

Detweiler's Store, rural Hazleton                                                       

William Detweiler, owner

delivered by Don Jacobson

FEINSTEIN CHALLENGE

March 1 through April 30, 2013

Time for the Feinstein Challenge.
    As for the past 15 years, the Feinstein Foundation is distributing $1 million to hunger fighting agencies throughout the country.  Our share of Feinstein dollars will be based on the amount of donations made here in our own community.  To quote Alan Feinstein,
              

                 "Whatever you donate to this agency,

                     I will add money to it.  The more

                  you give, the more of my $1 million

                     they'll get -- Thanks to you!"                          

  Donations may be money, food items (count as $1 per pound), and pledges for future donations.

If you want your can drive or fund-raiser to have the maximum impact, the time is now! 

Check out the Feinstein Challege at www.feinsteinfoundation.org

Thank you

 West Elementary After School Program

for 128.7 pounds of food.

2-13-13

Thank You ConAgra

How much pudding can a Yukon hold?  115 boxes.


 Four trips like this.    Thank you, Randy and ConAgra for 1,403 pounds of pudding!

Affiliated Foods, McElroy, Blin and Volunteers

 January 28, 2013 

      Over 7,000 pounds of salvage grocery items arrived at the Food Pantry.  This donation was arranged by Gary McElroy. Randy Blin provided transportation from the warehouse in Norfolk, Nebraska to the Northeast Iowa Food Bank in Waterloo.  The Food Bank brought it on home to to us.  Shown here are Food Bank volunteers handing off to Independence area volunteers.



Jim





Dick

Didn't take long to for the piles of boxes to grow.

  Volunteers begin to unpack and sort.



Too busy to look up and smile.  (Counter Clockwise from Left) Dennis, Julie, Justin, Dick, Bud, Sandra,  Jim




David, Julie



Bev, Ronda, JoAnn




Cliff, Sandra, Bud, Kate

 

David, Jim

Twenty-six volunteers helped with this project.  Not all are represented her.  We catch only glimpses of the more elusive like Justin, and Doug managed to avoid the camera altogether. Our photographer, David Foix, worked as hard as anyone when he wasn't recording the event. And in respect for their privacy, no photos were published of Holly and the Success Center students or of the young men from Four Oaks.  Could not have done it without them.

To all of you present and those who wanted to but could not be there that day,

job well done and thank you.

To Gary McElroy and Randy Blin, thank you very much.