Drive-through food pantry packs Everett Mall parking lot
In old sedans and late models, SUVs and compacts, hundreds of drivers waited in four long lines Friday afternoon at the Everett Mall. The traffic jam had nothing to do with holiday shoppers jockeying for parking. It was all about need as people waited for groceries at a drive-through food pantry.
It was the second of two food distribution events at the mall this month organized by Volunteers of America Western Washington in partnership with Farmer Frog, a Woodinville-based nonprofit.
“The need is just overwhelming,” said Stephen Kennedy, a volunteer at the event and a VOA board member. “I think we have a lot of people who have never been in a line like this before.”
At the first drive-through pantry Nov. 13, more than 2,000 boxes of food were given to 340 families — 1,638 adults and children, said Cory Armstrong-Hoss, Volunteers of America Western Washington’s director of communications and marketing.
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I imagine there are a lot of people utilizing these kinds of services lately. If you can donate to your local food bank it would help.
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