Food drive collecting food this Saturday

Scouts are staying busy with another food drive.

“A food drive is always helpful,” said Carol Nordine, who manages the local Care and Share Food Bank located at the Nazarene Church on the outskirts of Grand Coulee heading east on SR-174. “It gets us a variety of things we normally don’t have.” 

The boys and girls in the local troops left bags at area residences last weekend with a flier explaining how to donate food. 

Residents are encouraged to place food in the bags and leave them outside their homes before 9 a.m. this Saturday, March 27, when scouts will start picking them up.

Canned vegetables, canned fruit, and boxes of macaroni and cheese are always welcome at the food bank, the flier explained. 

Nordine said that canned tuna and meat are also welcome, and that one time they received a lot of canned sardines and herring, which excited one recipient in particular who really likes that sort of thing. 

The food bank is busier some weeks than others, Nordine said.

On the Friday before Easter, April 2, they will “have some good stuff,” she said.

“We have precooked turkey breasts that are really yummy; we have ham,” she said. 

The foodbank is open Fridays from 2-4 p.m. and continues to use drive-through service during the COVID-19 pandemic.