11,411 Pounds
That is how much food we sorted today at the Food Bank. We had 39 adults and a gaggle of children there sorting food, checking expiration dates, building backpacks for other children and all of the tasks associated with moving that much food around. We built 354 boxes of various foodstuffs and got them ready for distribution.
Thank you to all of the people that came out to volunteer their time for this worthy cause and for making our event such a success. And a special thanks to Governor Jack Markell for coming out and lending a helping hand to the Food Bank and our event.
Pictures and video to follow.
Tags: charity
Plus, it was fun! And you get to boss the governor around.
Wow! Good work! See you tonight!
Thanks for organizing LG. It was great fun. Gov. Markell made a big impression on the children.
And we all got a little closer by constantly bumping into each other.
What a great experience! Loved meeting everyone – it’s nice to finally put a name with a face. Can’t wait to do it again!
Thanks LG. You done good. 🙂
I learned alot about just how much charitable food organizations do, and the folks who are doing this work on the daily are real heros.
It was fun to meet a few more of you and hope to meet more of you this evening!
Thanks, LG for organizing this, and thanks to Governor Markell for asking all of us to roll up our sleeves. Am looking forward to doing something like this again soon (or maybe a stream cleanup in the spring!)
Liberalgeek is the man. Jack Markell provided the inspiration and geek provided the leg work setting it up.
It was so nice to meet everyone.
Now I’m taking a nap.
Well aren’t you a lazy bitch!
Enjoy your nap. See you tonight.
Thanks to Pandora for bringing the much needed donuts and coffee!
And Matthews, it was tiring work. I laying on the couch myself right now, after picking out a new tie for tonight.
I guess sarcasm isn’t as obvious over the Intertubes.
Yeah. Sorry.
No problem…see you tonight! Should be fun.
It was tiring, especially lifting boxes of heavy canned goods over your head to avoid hitting people. I ended up climbing in a bin to get some more out at one point. I was half surprised the bin didn’t tip over and pummel me with cans of beans and corn.
We were going at such a clip it was work to refill the bins to keep the sorting going.
It was fun. I am going to see about volunteering some time at the Food Bank warehouses in Milford in a couple of months when one of my classes ends. If the 50 of us could only get through about half that warehouse in 4 hours, who knows what could be done if we got more people to help.
I am going to suggest it to my Sister In Law, who runs a Girl Scout troop, she’s always looking for stuff for the girls to do. Maybe get a local high school to organize a bunch of goody two-shoes to help one day.. spread the word, keep it going!
LG thanks for organizing this. It feels good to something more than lay around on a saturday morning on the couch. That was an amazing amount of food that was moved, sorted, repacked, stacked and moved. BTW what was the website for logging our time into?
And also, thank you for allowing me there today lol. It was a pleasure to meet so many of you and to work along side of each of you. My daughter enjoyed it. Great to actually SEE a governor in person too.
Laying on the couch! I just finished a run!
Isn’t 11,000 lbs. = 5.5 tons?
I had a great time. I’m still finding tape in places where tape was never meant to be.
Nice meeting all of you and working with Mr. Pandora and the young Pandoras. I’m looking forward to doing this again.
UI, your right thats 5.5 tons. If the ave family of 4 eats 50lbs a week, thats enough to feed 50 familys for a month. Looks like a lot of food, felt like a lot of food, aches like a lot of food, but that is not alot. We can all do more, but its a start.
IT still feels weird to consider icing a condiment 🙂 But it was nice to meet some of you and it makes me now feel old to have Pandora’s daughter read all of the expiration dates because I couldn’t see them 🙂
Where does this food pantry work happen? Can anyone offer to help?
I’m in LSD and it would be difficult to get to Wilmington.
Anybody?
Hi Cajun – There is also a spot in Milford. I’ll see what info I can get for you and I’ll put it up for you.
Well now we know where all that cranberry sauce ends up….thanks for getting it all together Geek…but who had time to meet anyone Pandora?!!–we were work, work, working on our side, and DelGem had to sort his side all by memory. No wonder he’s tired. It wasn’t just a muscle job!
LOL Joanne. DelGem? That’s a keeper.
Off Airport Road in Milford, across from where they are building the new Veteran’s Home.
It just happens to be in the same industrial park as the main office of the company I work for.
Anyone know how many boxes hube’s group did?
Wait…
Was Hube there?
For it would explain a moment where I felt pure evil enter the facility.
It was a great time…being the somewhat Republican I am, it may be worth noting that Geek volunteered me and my young son to work in the part of the warehouse that is open to the outside air. Yeah, my six-year-old has this experience burned into his head…and his frost-bitten hands. 😆
It was great. Being out there actually gave me a chance to have a loooonnngg conversation with him, telling him about why an organization like that is needed and why it’s very important to make it a life’s-work. Hmm…that may be the real reason why he wanted to leave after two hours! HA!
Looking forward to meeting everyone else I haven’t yet met!
Oh, who is this “Jason Scott” fellow? Was he the one we saw in the corner, stuffing cans into his pocket and trying to open snack packs?!?!
Dang it! I was so busy pretending to work that I didn’t notice that you were in Siberia until the very end.
Funny thing is, on the way home he asks, “Dad, is it always this cold when you help people?”
To which I said, “No. That’s what it’s like being a Republican these days.”
He didn’t get the joke.
Just got up from my nap. Man, that was fun! And good exercise.
Note to future food donors: Do not donate one individually wrapped twizzler. Get a whole bag.
Don’t read any evil intentions into Geek’s part there RSmitty. We don’t literally exile our Republican friends. For I was working with Joanne packing boxes most of the day.
But that was very good explaining the need for charity to your son. I remember my parents doing to me at a young age.
Also, for those wondering how old the undated bag of dried pinto beans I discovered is:
So the bag (featuring a “four food groups” USDA logo and no nutritional information), dates back at least to 1994.
What won the award for oldest item?
the website to log in your hours is http://www.betterdelaware.org
What won the award for oldest item?
I had a jar of pickles with a 1995 sell by date.
Smitty-you were there? Shoot. I swear I only saw about 4 people….
You worthless, pathetic bags of inanity actually did something useful. I didn’t volunteer, but I did send a check to the food bank.