May 12: Our second re-pack at the Oregon Food Bank was a huge success! We had a different volunteer coordinating this time and she was wonderful. We heard better descriptions of what we would be doing, the event was better organized than the last time we were there, and we weren't just focused on a wasteful peanut recall. This time we were sorting through donated food in yellow bags (surprise, surprise) from the Letter Carrier drive three days before, as well as food that was just loose in enormous cardboard boxes. We loaded the food into smaller cardboard boxes which were taped and loaded onto pallets. The pallet loader volunteers would ring a cow
bell like crazy every time we filled a pallet so needless to say the mood was happy and frantic. Lots of cheering, lots of laughing, lots of grabbing and tossing of canned goods! We seem to have made good progress and were able to see our stats for the night for added encouragement and feel-good-ness. I heard things like "I had a blast!" and "I would do that again in a second!" Happy times. "Because no one should be hungry!"
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