BLACKSBURG, Va (AP) - A Virginia food bank has received the largest donation in its 30-year history.
The Interfaith Food Pantry of Blacksburg received 35,566 pounds of nonperishable food from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Roanoke Times reported. The food was driven across the country from the church’s Utah headquarters, according to the newspaper.
Church representative Jackie Grosebeck, a former Blacksburg resident, got word in March that a church facility in Salt Lake City that sends food and emergency supplies to disaster sites around the country was overstocked. Church leaders were looking for worthy recipients, and Grosebeck said she nominated Interfaith Pantry.
There is so much food coming that the Interfaith Pantry plans to divide it with City of Refuge and Beans and Rice, both of which operate in Pulaski County.
Already, a dozen trucks from the central storehouse have delivered food to organizations in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., Grosebeck said Wednesday. The truck coming to Blacksburg is part of a new wave of 15 trucks from the central storehouse heading to the Mid-Atlantic, she said.
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