Members of the Point West Rotary assembled at the Sacramento Food Bank's (SFB) warehouse facility these past two Fridays. Due to the CoVid restrictions, the SFB has been forced to restrict the number of volunteers they may have in their facility while the community need for local support has gone from 60,000 households per month to 300,000 households per month due to the pandemic. PWR provided club members for the 1PM to 4 PM shifts on the two Fridays following the club's Zoom meeting. PWR has yet to hold an in person meeting this Rotary year and so having the opportunity to actually see a club member in three dimensions was a welcome site. It appeared that some of us failed to have practiced 'social distancing' from our refrigerators during the pandemic!!! Needless to say the service event was a huge success with the fellowship flowing once again. An assembly line was the procedure applied with each member to place one or two items in a box as it traveled in front of them. Although members were given instructions on how to place their specific items in the box, there were some (names not stated to protect the innocent) struggled with where to place their item. It may be neceesary that several members enroll in a basic course of "grocery bag packing" at their local super market to gain some insight on the technique.
PWR's Paul Adams was the pallet loader and he kindly shared the final totals. PWR's service resulted in 8 pallets of 40 boxes each; thus 320 boxes total. Each box weighed in at 27.5 lbs containing fruit juice, condensed milk, peanut butter and canned vegetables along with an aray of dry goods. Thus per Paul's count, PWR volunteers boxed around 8800 lbs of food stuffs. And this weight doesn't include the bags of fresh pears and oranges that were assembled by the members on both days. So combining the two days worth of volunteering at SFB, PWR packed over 5 tons of food items. Great job, Gang!!!! Thanks, Greg Garcia, for chairing this event!!! Below are some photos of the PWR volunteers:

From left to right: Don Rodes, Rich Price, Tom Engwar, Paul Adams, Mike Bede, Brian Moore, Don Levin, Roger Gilleland, Randy Burton, Rich Fathy. Holding the sign: Left to right: Ross Siragusa, Desiree Wilson, and Tim Maliapaard.
Two PWR members below weren't able to get in the group pictures


Dave Black President Elect Mary Lyn Kagan

Pear Packing Crew: From left to right: Greg Garcia, Tom Knox, Richard Fathy, Roger Gilleland, Paul Fredrich and Greg Dwyer

Photo of wall mural at SFB Warehouse (taken by Tim Miliapaard)
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