12/9/2009 10:35:00 AM Dewey-Humboldt Community Center and Food Bank
partner up with potatoes
Stacey Morgan, left, manager of the Kate Garber Community Center in Dewey-Humboldt, meets Anne Wilson, director of the Yavapai Food Bank, with a truckload of 6,000 pounds of potatoes for the Thanksgiving food boxes. The Community Action Program of D-H gave $1,000 to help provide for families in need.
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Feeding hungry families in and around Dewey-Humboldt and Mayer had a different spin this year. A group effort provided Thanksgiving meals that came in a box rather than dished up hot on plates.
Brenda Tolbert, Kate Garber's granddaughter, and Stacey Morgan, manager of the Kate Garber Community Center in Humboldt, worked with Yavapai Food Bank this season. This past year, the Activity Center served hot meals at the local elementary school.
"We got $1,000 from CAP (Community Action Program in D-H) to donate to the Food Bank," Morgan said.
In charge of spending the money, the Community Center asked for a list of needed items, then went through the Bountiful Basket program, which sold food to the Center at cost. Tolbert said she found out the food boxes don't usually contain potatoes, and she thought a five-pound bag would be a great addition for the recipients.
"This donation of 1,250 five-pound bags of potatoes was from the Kate Garber Memorial Activity Center, given with the help of several local businesses, churches and friends of the Center," she said.
This past year, the Center helped serve Thanksgiving meals to families in need at Humboldt Elementary School. But when the Humboldt Unified School District requested $1,500 for the use of the kitchen and cafeteria, up from $700, Morgan said she felt the partnership with Yavapai Food Bank for food boxes was a better way to serve the community.
The 6,000 pounds of potatoes went to the Food Bank, where volunteers added them to the food boxes. Morgan said she wasn't sure how many food boxes went to area residents since the Food Bank distributes the boxes.
