Thursday, March 28, 2024

Bridgeport Food Bank: more customers than food

Demand remains high

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BRIDGEPORT – The newly re-opened food bank at the Wellspring of Life Church at 1300 Foster Avenue held its second official food distribution at 7 p.m. last Friday, April 10, and once again the demand outstripped the supply as more customers in need exceeded the new venture’s supply of food.

Wellspring co-pastor Zuni Henriquez said the food bank was only able to distribute 59 boxes of food rather than the planned 80 boxes because the church building where the food bank is housed no longer has the refrigeration units for cold storage.

We were frustrated there was so many families that we were not able to serve due to our limitations,” said Henriquez, “although we are working very hard to make the number of boxes be higher soon.”

With help from the Food Distribution Center in Chelan and the National Guard out of Wenatchee the food bank debuted its service with 40 boxes of food on Friday, April 3, that, while a welcome inauguration, was unable to meet the needs of the more than 100 customers who showed up.

The Bridgeport Food Bank is scheduled to continue food distributions at 7 p.m. every Friday from the Foursquare Building that serves as its headquarters.

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