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Fill the Bus fills Bonners
Ferry Food Bank |
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January 19, 2012 |
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The 5th annual Fill the food drive held on
Martin Luther King Jr. Day was another
successful year for food collection in Boundary
County according to Pam Moe.
This was a Lewis-Clark Service Corps' service
project organized by Mrs. Moe, a former
AmeriCorps member and Megan Brown, the current
AmeriCorps member both from Valley View
Elementary.
“It is amazing what a small town can do in just
a few short hours,” Brown said.
On Monday, 95 student and teacher volunteers
from Boundary County School District, students
from Echo Springs, retired teachers, forest
service employees, and many more showed up to
help load 2,880 pounds of food into two school
district buses.
Ronnie and Mike Howe volunteered their time for
seven hours at Akins Harvest Foods ... and
they've done it for the past four years.
The buses were weighed at General Feed and Grain
after they were loaded with all of the food and
household items donated.
The buses took the food to the Community Action
Partnership food bank in Bonners Ferry, and volunteers formed an old-time fire brigade line
and moved all donations from the buses to the
back of the food bank in about 15 minutes.
$866.92 was collected in cash donations, which
went directly to Community Action Partnership.
“We are grateful to Boundary County School
District, all the volunteers, Safeway, and Akins
Harvest Foods and, of course, all the donors for
their generous contributions!” said Moe.
The people who will benefit, while they might
never know from where the largesse came, might
never get the chance to thank their benefactors
... but here's an unofficial prediction ... many
of them, once they get through the situation
they're now in during which help is needed, are going to be able to grow
stronger, pick themselves up and find better
days ahead.
When they do, they're going to become part of
the next generation of benefactors, giving in
every way they can.
This place is rare in its ability to bring out
the best in people.
Perhaps that's why Bonners Ferry is considered
the "Friendliest Town in Idaho."
Give help when
needed, appreciate and embrace the many and
varied talents of the people who come here, and
they come to ask how they can give back.
As the most remote part of the friendliest state
in these United States, that's a legacy to
take pride in.
It's a legacy that will forever build upon itself, and
it may
well last forever.
We adults might not always get along, but we are truly
blest. When adults forget, our children seem to
always
remember. |
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