A huge shout out to the community of Pagosa Springs, thanking you for your donations at our food drive in front of City Market on September 9. The donations help supplement the Archuleta County food pantries, which are sorely needed right now.
I have been helping with this food drive for over a year. I was reminded again how proud I am to live here and call Pagosa my home. The Pagosa Springs community is compassionate as well as giving and always willing to help.
On September 9 we had some folks come and volunteer who had not done it before, and we had some return volunteers. They, too, were taken with just how giving our community is. We were a little slow at first, and then it seemed as though someone opened the floodgates; we kept filling grocery carts with bags of food-then we had to start loading up my vehicle with these bags so that we didn’t crowd the entry way to City Market with shopping carts of food!
The donated items make their way to the Food Distribution Center, and from there, the food is distributed to the food pantries in the county.
Thank you again, Pagosa… All of us here at the Food Coalition/Healthy Archuleta are and will be forever grateful.
For more information on upcoming food drives, please visit our website, www.foodcoalition4archuleta.org.
Andrea Peltier, Healthy Archuleta Food Drive Volunteer Coordinator