Celebrating the Opening of Floyd’s New Food Bank
~ The following was appeared in The Floyd Press on September 22, 2011
The new Plenty! Fresh Food Bank is located on Webbs Mill Road in the garage adjacent to the Plenty! office and Community Garden. The Food Bank will provide canned and fresh food to individuals and food pantries in Floyd in addition to the surplus produce that Plenty! already provides to the community.
Willis resident Martha Bowers (center), along with her husband Jimmie, was one of the volunteers who helped set up the new Plenty! Food Bank. Here, Bowers introduces Brenda Weeks, who is inquiring about volunteering, to Plenty! co-director Karen Day (left).
Tara Milligan from Americorps Vista coordinates hunger relief programs in the New River Valley. Milligan (pictured far right) poses with a group from Virginia Tech’s SERVE (Students Engaged and Responding through Volunteer Experiences) who she invited to attend the Plenty! Food Bank opening.
Refreshments made with local food were served and attendees gathered for a blessing circle. Floyd resident Nii Anang (center), a native of West Africa and one of the evening’s drummers, led the group in a blessing.
Food Bank donations have already begun arriving. Plenty! co-director McCabe Coolidge (pictured to the right in grey shirt and khaki pants) said the non-profit group recently joined Feeding America and were able to purchase snacks for Plenty!’s Healthy Snacks school program at a greatly reduced price.
Note: Watch a video of the Food Bank opening HERE and HERE. Visit the Plenty! website HERE.
September 27th, 2011 8:16 am
Ah, a good initiative.
Have you ever wondered what happens to all the lotion and shampoo seized by airports in carry-on for being too big? Does that all get redistributed to homeless shelters?
September 27th, 2011 8:21 am
Good question!
September 27th, 2011 8:49 am
Another great take of Floyd and all the good they are doing!
September 27th, 2011 10:25 am
Thank you for featuring us in your blog post. Thank you for the support!
– Ryan Young (www.feedingamerica.org)
September 27th, 2011 5:41 pm
Floyd, continues to be the most AMAZING little Town, on Earth! What a wonderful thing, Colleen.
I STILL have to sound on YouTube Video’s……I sure wish it would “right” itself….! It’s not just here, my dear…It’s Everywhere.
May 27th, 2013 11:46 am
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