| (June 23, 2021) -- Two large delivery trucks filled with 80,000 pounds of food arrived at the ELB Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints parking lot at 6500 E. Atherton St. and at midmorning June 22 dozens of volunteers unloaded the boxed food for delivery to roughly twenty local food banks, non-profits, neighborhood groups and other churches.
The LDS church said it's the second time this year that its volunteers leveraged tithes and offerings during the pandemic to purchase the food to help feed the hungry in Long Beach, working with more than two dozen different food banks, nonprofits, neighborhood associations.
Lifetime church member and Long Beach City Auditor Laura Doud was among those present didn't show-up gussied-up for a photo-op; with others, she showed up to work...and there was plenty to do. The church said one truckload feeds an estimated 1,400 people for a week. Some boxes of foods were offloaded by a forklift; the rest by hand by volunteers, who then fanned out in small pick-ups and individual vehicles to make their deliveries. |
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