MORE ON EMPTY FOOD SHELVES

My friends who starred in my earlier blog re food shelves sent the following, with permission to publish it. It seems pretty obvious that the private sector is overwhelmed, not up to handling this systemic problem on its own.

For a third paragraph on the Food Shelves blog—we went shopping again and this week the shelves at the Food Bank were even more empty.  We were told that there had not been a delivery from a local supermarket in over a month.

Paragraph four—I’m writing a message in the monthly church news letter to inform the church folk of the situation.  I will suggest that if we brought just one food item whenever we came to church, it would really help to fill the food boxes.  Also, if groups that meet weekly or monthly did the same, it would be even better.  We’re starting that with my monthly book group—not a church related activity—but the members are community minded.