The Thunder Bay Good Box program loaded up its 80,000th box of fresh fruit and vegetables at the Moose Hall on Wednesday afternoon.
THUNDER BAY — In the middle of the organized chaos that comes with loading food boxes each month, a milestone was reached for the Thunder Bay Good Box program on Wednesday afternoon
“We couldn’t have done without the help of people in the community, whether that’s the volunteers here or the sponsors that support us.” “The need is high,” O’Reilly said. “We’ve had a lot of long-term customers over the years and the surveys that we get back tell us that for more than of half of them, the Good Food Box program is the only fresh fruit or vegetables they have in the house each month.
“A lot of our main items stay the same,” Good Food Box program coordinator Sherry Scott said. “With the different items we put in, we also include a newsletter that goes over how to cook the extra vegetables and healthy fun ways to use them.” “We have a great cross-section of the population that help us out and its really the volunteers that power all of this. To see them pack over 500 boxes each month is pretty amazing.”
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