FOOD PANTRY ATTENDEES…..thanks for a terrific pantry last Monday. It was a great day and it was wonderful seeing so many of you!

Please remember to bring your personal shopping bag to the pantry on Mondays as we move forward for the winter. If you require a paper sack, we will have them for you but we would very much appreciate you bringing your own sack as long as you are comfortable with our volunteers putting items into your sack with a gloved hand!
Remember to SOCIAL DISTANCE. It’s easy to forget that we have that responsibility to each other and we have several people in town who are at high risk. We very much appreciate you keeping that in mind as you are waiting in line.
FINALLY, AND VERY IMPORTANT: We begin the pantry promptly at 3 pm. You are welcome to line up whenever you wish BUT you will not be allowed to “shop” prior to 3 pm. Please line up by 3:30 pm if you wish to shop. When the line is gone, our volunteers begin to pack up the pantry. If you arrive after 3:30 PM, we cannot guarantee that the food will still be out on the table. The team will be packing up any remaining foods and loading it into a truck to be driven to the Ward food pantry. The driver leaves by 4 pm. Following that, we still have to clean up and store items away for the next week. We don’t want to miss you but our food pantry team has been working on weighing, sorting, loading, carrying, unloading, displaying, and cleaning up this food since they left Gold Hill at 9 AM. By the time the line has finished between 3:30 pm and 4 pm, the team has been working for 7 hours on getting food to you. The team makes this look effortless but the truth is that they’ve put in an entire day by the time you receive your food. Our team is the best and they are very devoted to supporting our town with these foods. We appreciate your understanding and hope to see you on Monday for our next pantry.
We have been asked to find out what you would like to receive at the pantry. Please tell one of the volunteer servers what items you’d like to get in the future. The Ned pantry folks shop for us each week and are anxious to hear from us.

We are really fortunate to have so many great people making this work. The Nederland Food Pantry is very flexible and always willing to help us out. They are planning special food stuffs for the holidays and they go out of their way to accommodate us. Boulder Food Rescue Mountain Division is what supports our Monday food pantry. It takes 3 drivers to get this food for us on Mondays and they go to 3 or 4 locations in Boulder to gather all of the items that are available to you on Monday. If you want any additional information, we can provide that for you.

Thanks everyone. Enjoy!
Deb Yeager
deb@nullmountainvisions.net