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Lake City PD partners with Farm Share to provide 515 families with food

Farm Share to distribute food on Aug. 26 and Aug. 27 (Farm Share)

LAKE CITY, Fla. — It was a busy but successful day in Lake City.

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On Sat., Apr. 22, the Lake City Police Department, in partnership with Farm Share, provided 515 families with food.

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The logistics were difficult but it was teamwork that made the day.

It took around three hours for a truck to be unloaded, the food unpacked from pallets, placed into bags and organized for distribution. Once the distribution line opened, it took another two to three hours for the food to be passed out to those in need.

According to Farm Share, on average, the community receives approximately 28,000 pounds of food items, which feeds about 500 families at each event.

“The combined efforts of our Community Relations Coordinator, Ashley Hardison, and lead volunteers have streamlined our Farm Share event,” Police Chief Gerald Butler said. “Although we were initially 20 minutes behind schedule, we ended 30 minutes ahead of schedule and had the food distributed in record time.”

Read: Farm Share Distributes Food to Food-Insecure Floridians

According to their website, www.farmshare.org, the organization reports:

Farm Share is Florida’s homegrown food bank. Founded for and by Floridians, Farm Share has been serving those under food insecurity since 1991 with the simple but innovative idea to recover crops from Florida farmers in order to distribute fresh and nutritious food to Floridians in need.

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LCPD thanked Vann Carpet One for providing their forklift, Millennium Bank for organizing volunteers that handed out bagels and coffee, and all the volunteers who donated their time and effort to the event.

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