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Pacific Pantry reports fewer users despite pandemic


Across the country, food banks have been reporting vast increases in demand for their support since the pandemic began as businesses close and new families lose jobs daily. But at least one Crescent City food bank is bucking that trend.
“It’s kind of counterintuitive of what we thought would happen,” said Amanda Hixson, who oversees the Pacific Pantry at the Family Resource Center of the Redwoods and directs the Del Notre and Tribal Lands Community Food Council. “We don’t quite understand why our numbers are down.”
Those numbers are the pantry’s usership statistics. In 2019, the pantry handed out self-selected bags of non-perishables just over 6,000 times. ....

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Food Security Task Force, Pacific Pantry Needs Help Assembling, Distributing Christmas Boxes


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. ....

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