Friday, June 25, 2010

Food Bank Pros


By now, Return Serve is completely at home at the Oregon Food Bank. Six of us went back to our favorite stomping grounds on May 20. Whatever it is about them, the Food Bank repack nights bring the people out, every time! We were in one of the back rooms of the warehouse this time, sorting reject food items donated from grocery stores. After quick checks for damages that would impact safety, the good food was sent down the conveyor belt and into boxes for shipping to smaller food pantries.

I'm not sure if you caught the significance of that previous sentence.... in our wonderful volunteering journey, we have finally reached the moment when we got to interact with a motorized conveyor belt. It's a Lucy and Ethel landmark, and we're excited to have reached it and had just about as much fun with it as you might think we did.

Here's to not stopping the fun or the work until no more food goes to waste...

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