On Saturday, June 28,  a group of community partners will be conducting a drive-thru and walk-up food pantry  in the parking lot at the corner of 17th and Main Streets in downtown Dubuque.  The sponsoring partners are First Presbyterian Church, Westminster Presbyterian Church, First Congregational United Church of Christ and St. Stephens Branch of River Bend Foodbank. The goal is to address hunger and food insecurity in our community.  Food will be given out free of charge to those who need it along with personal hygiene supplies.  There are no requirements for participation.  We plan to serve around 200 families at the event.

I have attached our event flyer and hope that you can help us to get the word out to the community and to those in need of food or hygiene supplies.  If you are not able to print the flyer I would be glad to deliver a quantity to you on request.

We expect to get many requests from individuals and community groups that would like to assist with this project.  Our volunteers will  begin working at 8:00 AM that morning and we expect to finish around 10:30 AM.    It is important that we know a week in advance (by September 21) what individuals or groups are coming and how many people are volunteering so that we can send instructions and prepare for them.  We can provide jobs for everyone regardless of abilities, from greeting people to heavy lifting!

If you have questions please feel free to contact me.  My contact information is listed below.  Many thanks for your help in serving the unmet needs in our community.  Let’s show we are Caring Neighbors!