Fantastic Falls Neighborhood Foods Lender will have a booth at the House & Backyard garden Show

Great FALLS — If you are planning on swinging by the Great Falls Residence & Yard Present from March 26 by March 28, you could think about bringing some meals with you. Not just any foods, though. For the very first time ever, the Great Falls Community Food stuff Lender will have their own booth at the show, and will be accepting donations of foodstuff and dollars. Donations to the food lender experienced beforehand been recognized at the demonstrate, but the group experienced never ever had their individual booth at the event.

“One of our board customers who is part of the Great Falls Neighborhood Foodstuff Financial institution Board of Directors is Roger Fleek, and he’s been included in the House and Back garden Exhibit and collecting food stuff for the hungry all-around Excellent Falls for a ten years or additional,” defined he Foods Bank director Shaun Tatarka. “So, Roger is actually the just one who kind of received us in, and the Homebuilders Association much too, has been a big supporter of ours for many years.”

The Foodstuff Financial institution will acknowledge any non-perishable food, even if it has been expired for a brief time, but they say they are at present in need of breakfast cereal, peanut butter, canned fruit, and canned greens.

There will also be an added incentive to donate. All donations, dollars or foodstuff, will enter you into a drawing for a $200 VISA Reward Card, courtesy of the Home Builders Affiliation of Wonderful Falls.

Tatarka explained that whilst their over-all will need for meals donations has increased all through the pandemic, it has not been as drastic as persons may well feel.

“There has been a slight boost. Not as considerably as you may consider, but there has been unquestionably been an enhance because COVID hit,” he described. “You know, some individuals had been strike very tricky by it. Conversely, however, what was kind of awesome was the common public of Fantastic Falls has been very generous to us in the past 12 months given that COVID hit, so we ended up absolutely able to cope with the improve. We come to feel extremely fortuitous.”

He also extra that, although the primary purpose of the booth is to obtain food items and money to enable individuals in want, it’s equally as important to get some publicity for the foods lender.

“I assume it’s crucial that men and women recall that there are hungry amongst us, and so I imagine that is just critical to type of increase awareness,” he mentioned. “The Dwelling & Backyard display, certainly, has a huge portion of the Fantastic Falls group for a when now, so it’s a good way for us just to get our identify out there.”