Food Security Task Force, Pacific Pantry Needs Help Assembling, Distributing Christmas Boxes
Andrea Lanctot, food program coordinator for the Community Food Council, goes over the items that will go into the Christmas food boxes this year. Photo: Jessica Cejnar
Andrea Lanctot surveyed tables ladened with canned goods, dry goods, produce, meat and boxes both flattened and intact.
Everything a family would need for a holiday feast, including hot cocoa and Martinelli’s apple cider aka “apple juice champagne” covered every flat surface in the classroom at the Family Resource Center of the Redwoods. About 15 minutes before Pacific Pantry patrons were expected to collect them, Lanctot, food program coordinator for the Community Food Council, began showing volunteers how to assemble a Christmas box.