Posted on: June 21st, 2021

FOOD PANTRY

 Thank you, Gold Hill for joining us in these past 14 months at the Gold Hill Food Pantry.  Our last pantry is Monday, June 28^th. 

We brought in the pantry to help our community during the pandemic but also as a way to support us following the Left Hand Fire evacuation.  Many of your friends and neighbors helped us in this endeavor.  Thanks very much to:

            Whitey and Jay at the Gold Hill Pub for generously offering the back patio space

            Brian Finn for generously offering the Bluebird Lodge front deck space and allowing us some storage

            Johanna Gangemi for co-managing the Monday pantry and being a regular driver

            Rick Sheingold for coordinating the Monday pantry and being a regular driver

Gretchen Diefenderfer for managing the Wednesday Food Pantry

            Denver Haslam for helping distribute food at the Wednesday Food Pantry

            Sheila Maloney for delivering food to the pantry from the tuff shed each week

            Julie Carpenter for delivering food to Ward and distributing food at the Monday and Wednesday food pantries

            Amara East for helping at the Monday Food Pantry

            Donal Maloney for traffic control

            Carol Garnett for assisting at the Wednesday Food Pantry

            Sarah O’Brien and her fiancé Sam for being a driver as well as distributing food

            Anya Brown and her friend Lauren for being a driver and distributing food

            Murielle Brown and her friend Tyrus for being a driver and distributing food

            Rick Geesaman for making sure that the tables were set up each week and recycling boxes

            Breida Geesaman for distributing food at the Monday food pantry

            Brian Tomas for meeting the Nederland crew each Monday at the tuff shed and distributing food

            Kathleen Moreau and Jamshid for can storage

            Dina Huber and Chad Miltenberger for donating our refrigerator

            Steve Arney and Virginia Schultz for donating our freezer

            Norm Skarstad for delivering food to Ward

           If we’ve missed anyone, we do apologize.  Without these wonderful volunteers, there would not have been a pantry.         

After 14 months we believe that most of our needs have been met and we would like the food to benefit those in the Boulder County area who are at greater risk than we are and therefore we have chosen to end the pantry.  Both Jamestown and Ward will be continuing with the same food offerings from Boulder Mountain Food Rescue and the Nederland Food Pantry.  Please feel free to join those pantries.  Jamestown meets on Tuesday and Ward on Saturday. If ever we experience another emergency and need more assistance, we will reach out to these two wonderful organizations and do whatever we can for our community.

 Thanks again for your participation.

 THE FOOD PANTRY TEAM