Second Harvest delivers a bounty of food and grocery items to Royal City
Courtesy photo - Todd Kennedy, Second Harvest of the Inland Northwest in Spokane, and Director of the Royal City Food Dorothy Lee were among several people who volunteered time to unload and distribute over 6,800 of fresh food and grocery items for Second Harvest Mobile Food Bank program.
Courtesy photo - Todd Kennedy, Second Harvest of the Inland Northwest in Spokane, and Director of the Royal City Food Dorothy Lee were among several people who volunteered time to unload and distribute over 6,800 of fresh food and grocery items for Second Harvest Mobile Food Bank program.
Courtesy photo - Todd Kennedy, Second Harvest of the Inland Northwest in Spokane, and Director of the Royal City Food Dorothy Lee were among several people who volunteered time to unload and distribute over 6,800 of fresh food and grocery items for Second Harvest Mobile Food Bank program.
ROYAL CITY — Second Harvest of the Inland Northwest delivered 6,821 pounds of fresh foods and packaged grocery items to Royal City on Thursday, Aug. 17, as part of its Mobile Food Bank free food distribution program for households in need of food assistance.
“A great bunch of volunteers from Royal City Food Bank, OIC Opportunities Industrialization Center (Yakima and Moses Lake), NTTdata Datacenter (Quincy), WSU Extension SNAP-Education program, Quincy Community Health Center and Moses Lake Community Health Center, Microsoft Datacenter Operations (Quincy), AWR Awareness Within Ruralities (Royal City), and several local residents pitched in to deliver food to 218 Royal City area households,” said Jack Eaton, Project Manager, Columbia Data Center. “Some of the food items delivered included potatoes, cucumbers, Ritz crackers, Dave’s Killer Bread (in abundance!), spinach medley, premixed salad, Litehouse salad dressing, apple juice, and fresh Bing cherries.”
Eaton said all items of food are donated to Second Harvest by generous farmers, ranchers, orchardists, packers, shippers, wholesalers, brokers, and retailers.
The Microsoft Datacenter Operations in Quincy is sponsoring 12 Mobile Food Bank events in population centers around Grant County this year.
The next Microsoft-sponsored Mobile Food Bank event will be in Quincy on Thursday, Aug. 31, at Port of Quincy Business & Conference Center. Second Harvest and Microsoft will team up to deliver food in Grand Coulee on Thursday, Sept. 28, and will do it again in Coulee City on Thursday, Oct. 26.