Despite fewer volunteers, the Bemidji Community Food Shelf continued its work in 2020
In 2020, the Bemidji Community Food Shelf had to change its distribution model and work with less volunteers. It overcame obstacles, though, to deliver hundreds of thousands of pounds of food to the community. 7:08 pm, May 20, 2021 ×
Natalie Rader, who serves as treasurer on the Bemidji Community Food Shelf’s board, looks around in a greenhouse on the food shelf’s farm during the open house on Thursday, May 20, 2021. (Jillian Gandsey / Bemidji Pioneer)
BEMIDJI The need for nearly one million pounds of food in the Bemidji area remained in 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic, and the Bemidji Community Food Shelf didn t miss a beat.
Mobile food shelf days set in Blackduck, Kelliher
Starting in May, ShelfSaver, a mobile food project of Women United, Bemidji Community Food Shelf and local organizations, will bring food to the outlying communities of Kelliher and Blackduck.
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Pioneer Staff Report | 12:46 pm, Apr. 29, 2021 ×
BEMIDJI Starting in May, ShelfSaver, a mobile food project of Women United, Bemidji Community Food Shelf and local organizations, will bring food to the outlying communities of Kelliher and Blackduck.
ShelfSaver will be in Kelliher at the North Beltrami Community Center from 1 to 3 p.m. on the second Tuesday of the month starting May 11, and in Blackduck at the Evangelical Free Church from 9 to 11 a.m. the third Tuesday of the month starting May 18.