GALION — Second Harvest Food Bank conducted a drive-thru food distribution on Friday at Galion City School District’s campus.
Second Harvest is a nonprofit food bank based out of Lorain County, and the organization covers Huron, Erie, Lorain, and Crawford counties.
“We were at Bucyrus last month and we just wanted to see if we could reach more people in Crawford County, so we decided to do it in Galion just to give it a shot,” said Brittney Hopkins, who was in charge of today’s event said.
Galion superintendent Jim Grubbs said he approved the request on the spot.
“When we received a call from Second Harvest asking if they could work with the school to provide a food bank, I immediately said yes, and that we will do whatever it takes to continue to try to support the community of Galion,” Grubbs said. “We have already provided more than 70,000 meals to our students — this is just another way for us to continue to support our community.”
There were 452 families who were served food, dairy, produce, and meat boxes on Friday. Each box weighed about five pounds.
“We’re just trying to cover as many areas as we serve and meet the needs of the public during the pandemic,” Hopkins said.
With the pandemic, the governor activated the national guard to come in and Second Harvest lost its volunteer force, so the volunteers and a lot of the at-risk population were replaced with soldiers.
“We just want to thank the school for letting us be here, we love what we do,” Hopkins said.
