By TJ
Photo: Winona Volunteer Services/Facebook
WINONA, Minn. (KWNO)-Winona Volunteer Services is planning another food drop at the Fastenal Customer Experience Center.
Executive Director Sandra Burke says distribution will begin shortly after 10 a.m. on Friday, May 28. Burke said Channel One Foodbank informed the food shelf the federal program providing the food for the drops was sunsetting.
“We do not at this point anticipate further drops this summer,” Burke said. “Once again things may change but to my knowledge, this will be the last one.”
The Fastenal Customer Experience Center is located near the intersection of Highways 14 and 61. Volunteers will hand out roughly 600 boxes with dairy, produce, and protein items to anyone who arrives.
By TJ
Photo: Winona Volunteer Services
WINONA, Minn. (KWNO)- Winona Volunteer Services will hold another Food Drop on Friday, April 9.
Executive Director Sandra Burke says this one will take place at Fastenal Customer Experience Center near the intersection of Highway 61 and Pelzer St. Distribution begins at 10 a.m. and lasts until the boxes are gone.
Burke says the roughly 700 boxes contain meat, produce, and dairy products and are handed out in a drive-through format no questions asked.
“There’s no income guidelines. We don’t ask for ID,” Burke said. She said it’s open to the community and is meant to go to households who need it.
By TJ
Photo: Facebook/Winona Volunteer Services
(KWNO)- Winona Volunteer Services will hold its first food drop of 2021 on Friday.
Executive Director Sandra Burke says the food drop will begin at 10 a.m. at the Fastenal Customer Experience Center near the intersection of Highway 61 and Pelzer St. Volunteers will direct traffic to line up along the Highway 61 frontage road facing east then exit the parking lot south on Pelzer St.
Volunteers will place up to 1,200 boxes of food in participating vehicles. The food is provided by a USDA program that buys excess food from farmers.
It’s the seventh food drop Volunteer Services has held since the start of the pandemic. Burke estimates they’ve distributed 14,000 meals through the events.