Food Pantry volunteers help out during Covid-19

​The St. Francis de Sales Knights Council 5397 participates in picking up and delivering nonperishable donations from the Church weekly, as well as picking up and delivering donations of mostly baked goods from the local Kwik Trip store  3 days every week.

I was asked by the Washburn County Food Pantry Director Sue Adams if the Knights would do the Kwik Trip pickups. As I was already delivering the Church donations. I ran this by the council and it was approved.  WGK Al Peterson, Jerry Mcdougall, and myself each take one of the three days to pick up donations in the mornings. Andrew Medley and Jeff Stellrecht also are volunteers.  We also weigh the donations at the Food Pantry and keep track of the donations from St. Francis, as we send in the total figures from the Church to the Supreme Council to receive funds to give to our Washburn Country Food Pantry annually.

We set up a special combination lock to hold the spare key for us to use in the mornings as the food Pantry is closed when we deliver the donations. I started picking up the Church donations almost 2 years ago, and we recently began picking up the Kwik Trip about a month ago.

It is working out fine for all concerned.

Brother ​Frank Rich