Posted on: April 3rd, 2020

Monday, April 6, we will have an additional food pantry from 3-4 pm

Thank you for visiting the Gold Hill weekly food pantry behind the GH store and pub.  PLEASE DO ALL YOU CAN TO HELP SUPPORT THE GOLD HILL STORE AND PUB. WHITEY AND JAY HAVE GONE WAY BEYOND WHAT WE COULD HAVE EXPECTED TO HELP WITH THIS PROJECT AND THEY CONTINUE TO SUPPORT US WITH EVERYTHING THAT WE ASK OF THEM.  

We love seeing you and are really happy to see you taking advantage of this food pantry opportunity.  Beginning Monday, April 6, we will have an additional food pantry from 3-4 pm at the same place- the back patio at the Store.  This food pantry will be made up of foodstuffs from Ideal Market, Whole Foods on Pearl Street, and Lucky’s Food Market, North Boulder.  These foods are perishable and prepared foods that have JUST gone out of date at the grocery stores.  If we don’t pick them up and bring them here for you, they will go into the dumpster.   

Following this food pantry, any overage will go to Left Hand for their newly-formed food pantry for themselves and Jamestown.

We will continue to have the food pantry on Wednesday as well between noon and 2 pm for the food coming from the Nederland Food Pantry so please make sure that you come back for their offerings as well.  Most of this food is rice, beans, pastas, soups,milk, canned goods, and perhaps some fresh goods.

If you have a large freezer and can take many, many loaves of bread, we are looking for people to fill up their freezers with bread.  There is a huge overage at this point.

If you want more information about these pantries, continue reading.  We anticipate that the food quantities will begin to minimize as the stores reconsider their purchasing and the national transportation system becomes more challenged moving products around the country.

More information:

Several food pantries in Boulder have closed because they have been managed and organized by older folks who are now very vulnerable to the virus so there are thousands of pounds of food that we are trying to get to you at no charge so it’s not thrown away.  The markets are extremely grateful for us taking the products.

At the stores, the department managers are constantly managing the expiration dates on their products.  These are the products that are being pulled from the shelves.  NOTE:  these date expirations are related to when the product’s peak freshness has been reached.  These foods are still fine to eat but they are no longer at their peak freshness.  These are the foods that we’re getting.

Friday and Mondays are large pick up days for the markets.  The Friday pickup is being split between Ward and Fourmile with any overage going into the refrigeration at the 4Mile Station and to firefighters.  Fourmile’s pantry is from 3-5 pm on Fridays at the Poorman fire station.  The Monday pickup is being split between Ward and Gold Hill with the overage going to LeftHand/Jamestown at the upper LeftHand fire station for their food pantry being held between 4:45 and 5:30 pm.

We will continue offering the food pantrys for as long as we have food available and volunteers to support our efforts.  If you have any questions, call Debra, 303 449 0454.

From Deb Yeager   deb@nullmountainvisions.net

And, by the way, everyone is now recommending that we all wear mask or bandanas our in public now, so please follow this recommendation.