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Food bank cuts ribbon at opening ceremony
“maybe a little over the
top,” Blake said, and opt-
ed instead to “roll up our
sleeves and do a grassroots
effort. And that’s what we
did.”
School. But the pantry re-
In June 2014, with about
cently acquired the struc- $65,000 in hand, the board
tures, a donation from the launched its operational and
school district. They were capital fundraising cam-
recycled and renovated to paign, themed “Imagine a
become the pantry’s home Community Without Hun-
for the foreseeable future.
ger.”
“Everything is inten-
Community organiza-
tional, sustainable and is tions, including the Ameri-
there to plant the seeds for can Legion Post 99 and the
passion and creativity and Seaside Rotary Club, held
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Blake, a member of the food pantry. Businesses and
pantry’s board of directors. individuals donated about
$100,000 in services. The
A community without
organization received sev-
eral donations and grants.
hunger
The food pantry exceed-
A few years ago, the ed its goal, raising about
board of directors knew $210,000, in addition to the
they would need to build initial $65,000 and in-kind
a permanent home for the donations. The board was
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considered going after an $350,000 project, which in-
available federal block cluded buying the land, ret-
grant of $1.5 million. The UR¿WWLQJ WKH SRUWDEOH EXLOG-
application process was ings and buying some new
cumbersome, Blake said, equipment, Blake said.
From the local schools
and although the organi-
zation had applied for and and service groups, to in-
obtained grants in the past, dividuals and businesses,
the board had to decide if “there really hasn’t been
a $1.5-million building a group or anybody that
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They decided it would be food pantry,” he said.
Public invited to celebrate
successful fundraising
campaign, new pantry site
By Katherine Lacaze
EO Media Group
The South County
Community Food Bank
celebrated its successful
community driven cam-
paign during an ice-cream
social and ribbon-cutting
ceremony July 25 at the
food pantry’s new facility
on North Roosevelt Drive.
The site opened in Janu-
ary after volunteers moved
equipment and food from
the pantry’s temporary
location, at the former
Coastal Research & Main-
tenance building, to the
new location, north of the
Seaside School District’s
bus barn.
The new building is not
“new” in a technical sense
— it was constructed from
two portable classrooms
formerly used by the Can-
non Beach Elementary
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The pantry closed its
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try is part of the fabric of
our community. A lot of our
people rely, as part of their
day-to-day living, on our
food pantry.”
In March, artist Bill
Lutz painted a mural of an
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trance that “symbolizes the
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our services to exist,” ac-
cording to a sign hanging
nearby. The sign includes a
list of people who gave do-
nations of money, in-kind
support and volunteer time
that brought the pantry to its
current reality.
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South County Community Food Bank held a ribbon-cut-
ting and ice cream social July 25 at its new location on
North Roosevelt Drive, which was opened earlier this year
thanks to a grassroots, community effort.
food pantry has reached
one milestone, but it’s
just the starting point for
a new journey, Blake said.
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