Cool donation

Posted: Sunday, Jul 20, 2008 - 08:47:14 pm PDT
Email this story Printer friendly version

By PATRICK O'BRIEN
Staff writer 

SHAWN GUST/Press Seth Gill, left, and Kevin Kram load a pair of freezers onto a trailer Friday at the Post Falls Food Bank. The freezers, two of 12 to be donated, will go to New Life Mission Church in Spirit Lake.

Post Falls Food Bank replaces old freezers

POST FALLS -- The Post Falls Food Bank received a donation of four new freezers worth $24,700 from the Women's Gift Alliance on Friday.

Tony Vandever, president, and Mark Jones, director of the Food Bank, offered tours of the facility and showcased the new freezers already filled with donated elk meat.

"It's nice that when you call up to the community for something, a lot of people step up to do something," Jones said.

In addition to 30 more cubic feet of freezer storage, the set-up translates into much needed floor space, allowing the food bank to operate more efficiently, Vandever said.

The remaining funds from the donation will go toward building a loft in the storage warehouse to alleviate an additional 800 square feet of floor space for storage and work area.

Jones said this will be a joint project with students from the Post Falls New Vision High School building the structure. A general contractor will be on hand to teach students trade skills, and one student is already working on the blueprints.

Construction of the loft will begin in September and is slated for completion in October.

The food bank donated its old freezers to other nonprofits.

Seth and Cynthia Gill of New Life Mission Church were collecting two of the old freezers while Kathy Reed of St. Vincent de Paul was taking a freezer to help store food for the community meals offered Monday through Friday 4-5:30 p.m.

Additional freezers were being donated to the Athol, Bayview and Careywood food banks.