(Spencer)-Hundreds of food boxes will be distributed in Spencer on Sunday, November 1. KUOO’s Becky Thoreson has details:
More than 500 boxes of food will be distributed to residents of Clay County on Sunday as part of the USDA Farmers to Families Program.
Kevin Brown, Executive Director of Grand Avenue Community Outreach explains. “Sunday, November 1st at 1 pm, we’re inviting everyone in Clay County to come out to the fairgrounds, and drive by the Jaycees building on Food Row there, to pick up a food box. It’s a really neat thing between the 3 organizations that are involved, Upper Des Moines, the Jaycees, and Grand Avenue Community Outreach. What’s really fun about it, is we’ve had this chance now to work with the Dickinson County Hunger Coalition. We’ve all worked with them quite a bit this year, with everything that’s been going on, but this is something where, basically this semi full of these food boxes is coming in on Halloween, and so the folks in Dickinson County are going to do their thing on that actual day at the Expo Center, and then the next day at the Jaycee stand we get to do ours. So, this whole thing is through this partnership with the USDA.”
He notes that residents should enter from 18th Street. “Folks are going to enter from West 18th Street, through the north gate of the fairgrounds by the Events Center, turn on to Food Row and head west, they’ll see the Jaycees at the end of the street there, and that’s where our volunteers are going to be. We’ll load it right into their trunk for them so that there’s basically contactless delivery there, and they’ll exit out Gate C out onto 4th Avenue West and be on their way.”
The boxes will be distributed on a first come, first served basis.
