Food bank seeks canned goods (updated)

Care and Share Food Bank is running short of some items and is hoping for some community assistance.

“We are really in need of some canned goods, especially tuna and chili,” Manager Dave Noggles said.

Although food bank volunteers will make the trip this week to get food from Second Harvest in Moses Lake, Noggles said, they needed to put the word out now about the need because that source is also tight on supplies.

“We are not expecting the amount that we usually receive,” he said. “They have informed us that they are having trouble, also, with getting commodities.”

Care and Share’s next big scheduled food drive isn’t until November, when local scouts drop off and pick up grocery bags off people’s doorsteps.

The food bank is open Fridays from 1 to 3 p.m. in the basement of the Church of the Nazarene at 45925 State Route E Hwy 174 (on the way to Wilbur).

Noggles said monetary donations are also welcome. People can send them to Care and Share Food Bank, P.O. Box 671, Grand Coulee, WA, 99133.

This story was corrected to state the correct the days it's open.