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SPREADS 2009 Winter Newsletter Feeding America West Michigan Food Bank Winter 2009 A quarterly publication of Feeding America West Michigan Food Bank which includes the Western Upper Peninsula Food Bank, Houghton; Feeding America West Michigan Food Bank,Ishpeming; Feeding America West Michigan Food Bank,Sault Ste.Marie; the Manna Project,Petoskey; Feeding America West Michigan Food Bank,Cadillac; Feeding America West Michigan Food Bank,Grand Rapids; and Feeding America West Michigan Food Bank,St.Joseph. Table of Contents: “WEHADNOIDEA!” Grateful Plateful Picnic opens eyes, strengthens ties FROM THE DESK OF It was a perfect September afternoon. them grasp the enormous impact the Food Under a brilliant sky, bright balloons Bank has on the region. JOHN ARNOLD P.2 bobbed on a soft breeze – the same “We had no idea!” said guests Jean breeze that blew through the open doors Sharp and her daughter, Marguerite SPARTAN STORES GET of the Food Bank, Moore. The two from Receiving to donors were so FRESH WITH US P.3 loading docks. impressed by Some 300 peo- what they saw in HERBRUCK’S LAYS ple floated through, the Food Bank too, most of them that Saturday, SPECIAL EGGS wide-eyed at the they said they ON US P.3 sheer size of the wanted to come warehouse and the back regularly as volume of volunteers. MOBILE PANTRIES reclaimed food. GOING GLOBAL? P.4 They were guests Great music, at the first annual good food – Grateful Plateful and a giant FIND LOVE AT GALA, Picnic, an educa- cow tional celebration FEBRUARY 5 P.5 for Food Bank Of course, the day supporters. wasn’t just about education. It was a FRUIT, VEGGIES GROW Craning their necks, the donors, celebration, too – FROM GRASSROOTS P.6 neighbors, clients sort of an early and volunteers Thanksgiving for Food Bank TRIPLE EFFORT BY progressed past mountains of supporters. TRINITY HEALTH donated groceries, Guests of all WORKERS P.7 house-sized refrig- ages mingled eration units, half an acre of 15-foot-high under a giant tent, tapped their feet to the shelving and literal tons of bulk food. tunes of the Full Chord Bluegrass band, and FIFTH THIRD: SECOND feasted on a smorgasbord of freshly TO NONE P.7 Even good friends were surprised prepared food, underwritten especially Even though the 300 guests were donors, for the event. GLEANING HARVEST neighbors and volunteers, few had seen the Board members Ed Nieuwenhuis and Food Bank quite so clearly before. Employees Mike DeVriendt skewered brats and dogs over MORE THAN and signs led the guests, step-by-step, a massive grill.Kids danced with delight in TRIPLES P.8 through the well-honed operation, helping (see “picnic,”page 10 & 11) 2 3 Full Plate Press Winter 2009 Full Plate Press Winter 2009 From the desk of John Arnold Spartan Food Show gives us 39,000 pounds of fresh food As of the end of October, we have distributions are coming in so fast we genuinely need to step up to that next The Spartan Food Show, held in August at “It took 30 volunteers six hours to load Vanderbaan.“But what an amazing boon it already distributed more food so far level. In 2010 we expect our mobile pantry program will distribute over 10 this year than we did in all of 2007. million pounds of food. We could still use some help in paying for the cooler DeVos Place in Grand Rapids, was truly a two big trucks with all of that glorious was to the Food Bank.” By year’s end we expect to have expansion, so if you have someone on your holiday gift list who already has feast for the senses. It turned into a feast for food,”says Donor Relations Manager Linda With refrigerated trucks, a 55,000- distributed an all-time record 24.5 “everything they need”, how about buying them a couple cubic feet of Food the Food Bank and the 1,300 agencies it square-foot warehouse and walk-in refrig- million pounds of product, a 2.5 Bank cooler space? Each of those 9,500 cubic feet costs about $6.25, and million pound increase over 2008. will help us increase the amount of food we distribute to needy people in serves, too. eration units, the Food Bank is uniquely There still has been no word from 2010 and ever after. It isn’t like a brick we can write their name on, but we After the show was over, Spartan and prepared to accept, store and distribute the windmill people who are analyzing will know and you and they will know that your gift to them helped make participating vendors donated almost 20 such large food gifts safely. the data recorder we had up in the our distributing that additional food possible. spring. It certainly seems windy So far we’ve raised only about $6,000 of the $57,000 needed to install tons of high-quality deli meats, baked Within a few days, the food was enough here to make installing an an electric generator to keep us up and running when the power grid is goods, dairy foods, frozen fish and fresh shipped safely to food pantries and other electricity-generating windmill make down. $5,000 of that was a surprise – a much-appreciated pledge from the produce to Feeding America West Michigan agencies serving 500,000 people through- sense. We hate to waste anything Thomas and Geraldine Seyferth Fund of the Community Foundation for Food Bank. out the Food Bank’s 40-county service area. around here, even the wind! Muskegon County. By the time you read this the renovation of our Reclamation You will probably be reading this a little after Thanksgiving, but I Department should be done, and we should be up and processing our back- would like to still take a moment to thank everyone who has helped us log of frozen meat products. Thank you everyone who helped with that! provide so much more food aid to so many more needy people this year. Herbruck’s lays thousands of specially packed eggs on us Work on expanding our big main cooler by 9,500 cubic feet should Donors, Board members, staff, volunteers, Feeding America, the Food Bank In one fell swoop, Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch in Saranac found message inside the carton, telling where the eggs came from.” start very soon and should be completed by year’s end. We really need that Council of Michigan…It is the combined good will, hard work and extra cooler space in order to be able to bump up the number of mobile resources of everyone who contributes any of those that makes what the a way to package donated eggs in a way that saves time for The carton message provides rare name recognition for pantry distributions we support from 8 per day to 10 per day. Requests for Food Bank does possible. Thank you! the Food Bank and pantries – and to express its support and the company, whose products are sold at retail under the encouragement to communities it serves. Meijer and Eggland’s Best brands. The company also sells How People Can Spend Less and Do More to Fight Hunger Over the years, the company has donated millions of eggs eggs to large food service accounts. Estimates vary with the economy, but use $1.50 as an average figure, it would cost Food Banks can reclaim and distribute to the Feeding America West Michigan Food Bank, as well as But, mostly, “We just wanted to say something to the currently hunger in the United States $648 million per year to address Michigan’s that wasted food for far less than the $648 to the Eastern Michigan and Chicago food banks. Like most communities we serve. After all, we’ve been part of these shows a shortfall of approximately 12 hunger problem with purchased food. And million it would cost to buy more! At an donated eggs, Herbruck’s came in 30-egg trays. But starting in communities for 50 years. We want them to know we’re here billion pounds of food per year. Michigan’s since it is nearly impossible to document estimated 20 cents per pound (far higher share of “food that was needed but wasn’t food gifts, people who give food in food than it actually costs), we could recover September, the same number of donated eggs – about 48,000 and we’re on their side.” there” is probably about 432 million drives rarely receive any tax benefits. enough surplus food to address Michigan’s per month – began arriving in family-friendly, familiar one- “Herbruck’s generous egg donations are a vital source of pounds per year. Meanwhile, it is estimated that as hunger problem – and route it through the dozen cartons. protein for families in need,”says Food Bank Executive Historically, the most common way much as 40 to 50% of all food grown in charity distribution system – for only about “The Food Bank tells us the 12-packs are easier and Director John Arnold.“We’re deeply grateful for the eggs and communities address the need for food is or imported to the U.S. for the purposes $86.4 million per year! by organizing or participating in food of feeding people is ultimately wasted. Furthermore, because monetary gifts cheaper for them to store and distribute,”says Lee Vandebunte for the new, easy-to-handle packaging. And we’re glad people drives. During the holiday season, our Food That is as much as 180 billion pounds of used by agencies to acquire food from a of Herbruck’s.“And we realized that we could print a short will know a little more about their friends at Herbruck’s.” Bank alone receives as many as five phone annual waste.
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