Victoria Penate
“We’re in a place where this couldn’t have come at a better time,” said Food Bank of Nevada County’s executive director, Nicole McNeely, on the Community Involvement Day held Monday at the Nevada County Fairgrounds.
The event offered visitors an opportunity to receive a free admission ticket to the upcoming Nevada County Fair if they donated blood with Vitalant, or a buy one, get one coupon if they donated to a number of other organizations present — including the Food Bank of Nevada County.
According to McNeely, both food donations and volunteering have “become stalled as things open up,“ following a period earlier in the pandemic in which the nonprofit was receiving more of both. Need for the food bank’s services has gone down at the same time, said McNeely, although it is still higher than in regular distribution times.