How many bags in two hours?

Thursday, May 21st the group headed to SnowCap Community Charities. We were led by one of our own, Carlene, who recently retired from the City of Gresham. She keeps herself busy with a variety of causes, but SnowCap is dear to her heart and we were happy to have Carlene give us a tour and show us the ropes. Half of our group spent the evening bagging up assorted food bags to be distributed to low income seniors who are homebound and unable to come to SnowCap to pick up their food. The pace of this activity was very quick with lots of lifting and reaching and grabbing - a workout for sure! They were able to pack an impressive amount of food in just two short hours. The rest of us were bagging up chicken pasta and ham and bean soup bags that come ready to make and include cooking instructions. We had this down in smooth assembly line fashion. And Mitchell was quickly a pro at the fancy vacuum sealer! One tip, before pouring bags and bags of beans in the pail for mixing, it pays to mix as you go so you don't have to dangle one person over the pail by his or her feet for mixing after the fact!

Thank you again to Carlene for sharing this caring space with us, and we look forward to more SnowCap work soon!

** One added bonus of Thursday's work - Chris joined us all the way from Boston earning himself the honorable title of "Furthest Traveled Return Serve Member". We think and hope we'll be seeing more of him while he's here in Portland for the summer. Thanks, Chris!